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Get real, IDC — PC sales will plummet in 2014

IDC's current prediction of a 6 percent decline in PC shipments this year doesn't pass the smell test

SAP adds subscription pricing for Hana cloud services

The new options give customers more flexible ways to use the in-memory computing platform

IDC: PC sales won’t stop dropping until 2018

Mobile devices and economic pressures will continue to eat away at PC sales, with desktops and notebooks alike affected

Red Hat Enterprise Linux now on Amazon’s GovCloud

The new offering, in which Red Hat manages base RHEL images, is available on an isolated part of Amazon's cloud designed for U.S. government agencies

Android-based malware: the good, the bad, and the ugly

F-Secure's Threat Report sheds light on how Android, though a target of malware writers , is no push-over

YAHOO cuts off Facebook, Google — PC death spiral — SNOWDEN plays SXSW — ‘GnuTLS’ BUG hits open-source — SV ‘Comfort women’ startup

No Internet? Facebook could fix that with drones

Facebook is in talks to buy unmanned aircraft maker Titan Aerospace, a report said

Pre-installed malware turns up on new Android devices

Fake version of Netflix that steals personal data and sends it to Russia has been found on some smartphones and tablets from Samsung, Motorola, and LG

AT&T lays out ‘radical’ network changes with SDN

The carrier will remake its infrastructure as a 'user-defined network cloud' to deliver services faster and at lower cost

Ballmer regrets not aping Apple sooner

In his first public appearance since retiring last month, the former CEO admits Microsoft 'didn't put the hardware and the software together soon enough'