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Offshoring will kill 1.5 million IT jobs by 2017

Report: Half of 2002's IT jobs in North America, Europe will be gone by 2017 due to offshoring, productivity improvements

Sinofsky joins BOX to take down Office — Microsoft courting FOURSQUARE — FACEBOOK user pix for facial recognition — PC nosedive accelerates

Salesforce.com mobile app developers gain security tools

Salesforce.com's Mobile SDK is now compatible with Good's containerization technology

Samsung starts mass production of DDR4 memories

Samsung is targeting the new memory at enterprise servers in next-generation data centers

Microsoft sets $100 Surface Pro discounts in stone

Permanent price cut is tacit admission that original prices for the tablet were too high

Windows 8.1 won’t rescue PC market this year, IDC says

Global PC shipments are expected to drop by 9.7 percent in 2013, but lower-priced laptops and convertibles will ultimately help the market recover

Imagination to battle ARM with MIPS server chips

The graphics chip design company wants to expand MIPS use in servers, smartphones, tablets, and wearable computers

A first, jaundiced look at Windows 8.1 RTM

Hopes that Windows 8.1 RTM would correct some of the problems from earlier builds prove very wrong

Java security will be in the spotlight at JavaOne

Oracle isn't shying away from Java's well-publicized security issues at the upcoming conference

The wireless revolution’s forgotten victim: The phone itself

Wireless devices are making landlines less reliable, but the new voice technologies aren't ready for prime time either