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Cisco to slash 4,000 jobs in bid to move faster

The cuts will thin out middle management and shift resources to key businesses

IBM to acquire endpoint security company Trusteer

IBM is also setting up a cyber security software lab in Israel

4 things to love about Google’s Chromebook Pixel — and 4 things to hate

Google's latest Chrome-OS-powered Chromebook laptop is a sleek machine with a lot to love -- and hate

Microsoft botches six Windows patches in latest Automatic Update

Microsoft acknowledges problems with KB 2876063, KB 2859537, KB 2873872, KB 2843638, KB 2843639, and KB 2868846, all released earlier this week

Microsoft fixes SkyDrive problem, issues persist with Outlook.com

Access to Outlook.com accounts has been restored, but Microsoft is still working on an issue affecting syncing of emails with mobile devices

Lenovo’s smartphone, tablets outsell PCs in first quarter

Lenovo's net profit was up 23 percent in its fiscal first quarter, and it overtook HP to become the world's largest PC maker

Facebook’s Graph Search puts Apache Giraph on the map

Built from Yahoo and Google technologies, Giraph competes with Hadoop in highly scalable data processing

Windows RT? More like Windows WTF

How did Microsoft miss so badly with Windows RT? By putting its own needs ahead of its users' requirements

Lavabit founder says he can’t legally explain why he shut down email service

Lavar Levison says pulling plug on secure email service purportedly used by Edward Snowden was lesser of two evils