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Article | 16/06/2011 Want to stop cybercrime? Follow the money

Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that takes down a website for...

Article | 14/06/2011 Chrome nearly replaced Firefox in Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth says

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth is a big fan of Google Chrome, and says the browser could replace the standard Firefox in future versions of Ubunt...

Article | 9/06/2011 As iPad sales boom, Gartner downgrades PC forecast

Apple's iPad and other tablets are causing consumers to delay laptop purchases, Gartner said Wednesday as it downgraded PC shipment projections.

Article | 9/06/2011 Startup targets flash memory latency

Plenty of hardware vendors are pushing out Solid State Disk products to speed up data access. Now a startup is emerging from stealth mode with server ...

Article | 7/06/2011 Mac OS X more vulnerable than Windows in some ways, security expert says

Although Mac users are more likely to experience virus-free computing than Windows PC owners, there is nothing inherently more secure about Apple's op...

Article | 2/06/2011 NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms

The New York Stock Exchange has built a VMware-based cloud computing service for financial firms, which goes live today from a data center in New Jers...

Article | 2/06/2011 Citrix founder's new startup targets data sprawl

Citrix founder Edward Iacobucci is launching a startup called <a href="http://www.virtualworks.com">VirtualWorks Group</a> that plans to organize the ...

Article | 28/05/2011 Microsoft seen not to blame for Skype rejecting open source company

Microsoft, long the enemy of open source software, announces a pending deal to buy Skype and Skype promptly ditches a partnership with an open source ...

Article | 27/05/2011 Skype voice service crashes; users offered fix instructions

With some users unable to sign into Skype and make voice calls, the soon-to-be-acquired-by-Microsoft company offered users a multi-step fix to get its...

Article | 26/05/2011 Citrix overhauls virtual desktop products for 'personal cloud'

Citrix's annual Synergy conference is opening with a bang this week, with Citrix previewing overhauls to nearly every component of its virtual desktop...

Article | 20/05/2011 Google plans expanded 24/7 phone support but not just yet

Google has always been known for fast and easy-to-use Web services loved by consumers. Google has never been known for the kind of dedicated support e...

Article | 12/05/2011 Google launches Chrome OS, says Windows is 'torturing users'

Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are "torturing users" at Google's Chrome OS launch event Wednesd...

Article | 11/05/2011 Google: 100 million Android devices activated, 4.5 billion apps downloaded

The Android mobile powerhouse is cruising to new heights with 100 million activated devices, 4.5 billion applications downloaded from the Android Mark...

Article | 6/05/2011 Red Hat CEO hates patent trolls, but says sometimes you just have to pay up

With Red Hat on the verge of becoming the first billion-dollar company focused exclusively on open source software, it has attracted quite a bit of at...

Article | 5/05/2011 Red Hat bashes Microsoft, VMware while pitching new cloud software

Microsoft and VMware are the enemies of interoperability, and only open source software can prevent cloud lock-in.