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Heed these 10 expert tips for mobile app design

Too many iOS and Android apps are hard to use due to poor design -- follow this advice to make sure your app isn't one of them

The Steve Ballmer farewell tour is officially under way

Microsoft's soon-to-be-ex CEO couldn't leave without sending a final shareholders' letter, full of platitudes and empty phrases

Gartner warns of vendor upheaval in technology shift

'Internet of everything' will change everything and help drive IT spending to $4 trillion next year

BlackBerry offers itself up to six would-be buyers; Cisco looks like the best fit

The company has also asked SAP, Google, Intel, Samsung, and LG whether they're interested

Pivotal adds mobile platform development with Xtreme Labs acquisition

VMware- and EMC-backed startup moves beyond cloud, big data, and platform as a service by adding mobile to the mix

Google modifies Analytics in EU-wide privacy concession

Google will give EU Google Analytics customers a supplemental data processing agreement requested by privacy regulators

SDN pioneers share their secrets

Training, planning and testing are key to software-defined networking rollouts

Report: FBI can’t access Silk Road owner’s $80 million in bitcoins

FBI seized Ross Ulbricht's bitcoin wallet, but encryption is keeping them from funneling out its estimated $80 million contents

Google’s new desktop strategy: Invade and conquer

Google's new strategy to make Chrome OS into everyone's OS: Build it straight into Windows by way of Chrome itself

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