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Apple hires CEO of Burberry to run retail operations

It's Apple's second executive fashion hire within months

Salesforce vs. Microsoft: Dueling single sign-ons

Salesforce Identity adds credentialing and single sign-on to the CRM giant's portfolio of services -- and competes directly with Microsoft's Azure-based identity offerings

VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available

The company also announced a number of new management tools at VMworld Europe

Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

San Francisco startup Famo.us is doing amazing things with JavaScript, radically raising the bar on what cross-platform Web and mobile apps can do

Trouble’s brewing in Android land

Indications of desperation at Samsung, chaos at HTC, and reduced focus at Google suggest Android faces rough sailing

Google Glass: Yes, it’s that bad

Google Glass is an idea whose time hasn't come

The shutdown gets real for science and high tech

Think the shutdown only hits panda cams and national parks? Hardly -- scientific research will feel impact for years to come

Imagination dispatches Warrior CPU core to battle ARM and Intel

The U.K. chip firm released its first new MIPS CPU design, a 32-bit device with as many as six cores

Full HD coming to Windows Phone devices

New phones that take advantage of the OS update are expected from Nokia next week