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Marissa Mayer says Yahoo investing in search

The Yahoo CEO explains her vision of contextual search on mobile devices

HP says security updates not included under new firmware policy

The company said it will continue to provide security and safety updates to all server users, even after restricting access to firmware updates

Mozilla plans to place ads in new Firefox tabs

Mozilla wants to diversify its sources of revenue that now mainly comes from Google, the company said

Windows XP isn’t the only software getting the knife in 8 weeks

Microsoft will also end support for Exchange 2003 and Office 2003, whose prevalence Gartner pegged at 30 percent to 40 percent

Yahoo acquires diary app maker Wander with an eye toward mobile

CEO Mayer has said that providing a suite of mobile products around 'daily habits' would be key to Yahoo's rebuilding efforts

Fragmented induction charging field thins as organizations unite

Power Matters Alliance and Alliance for Wireless Power join forces to combat Wireless Power Consortium

Review: 4 NAS appliances deliver big storage cheap

12-bay rack-mount systems from QNAP, Netgear, LenovoEMC, and Infortrend combine huge storage capacities, business-grade features, smooth setup, and easy administration

Google Cloud SQL debuts, following Amazon’s RDS lead

After lengthy limited beta, Google's MySQL database hits general availability, offering more storage and SLA-backed uptime

Big data demands more than commodity hardware

A Hadoop cluster of white-box servers isn't the only platform for big data. IBM's Dexter Henderson argues that enterprise analytics require specialized, high-performance iron