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Hadoop made easier, courtesy of Red Hat and Hortonworks

Enterprise Apache Hadoop could be a boon to startups and smaller enterprises

Java 8 will likely strip out Stripped Implementations

'Stripped down Java' could be especially relevant to embedded application developers

HP expands OneView into VMware environs

HP's server management software can now work with VMware vCenter workloads

Gigabit Wi-Fi case study: Erickson Living upgrades to 802.11ac

A retirement community plans on retiring wired networks in individual residential units

BITCOIN flaw flagged — Top Windows analyst curses MICROSOFT — SNOWDEN jacked NSA with basic crawler — AWS mystery bandwidth THROTTLE

Microsoft asks for volunteers to join its kill-XP army

Redmond implores customers with technical know-how to help friends and family ditch Windows XP -- but isn't that Microsoft's job?

US seeks information on industry ability to hold bulk phone data

The government is exploring third-party alternatives for holding the phone metadata

Judge rebukes Apple for invoking nationalist bias but denies Samsung a retrial

Apple's remarks in a patent trial suggested an 'American-versus-non-American theme' to the jury, Judge Koh said

Boom or bust: The lowdown on code academies

Programming boot camps are on the rise, but do crash courses in coding really pay off?

Top 5 technology failures of government

The United States faces difficult problems, but these five threaten to derail the nation's technological and economic leadership