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Take it from Facebook and Microsoft: The future of hardware is open

Microsoft backs Facebook's Open Compute Project, embracing open source hardware and one-upping secretive Amazon

IBM looking to sell its SDN business

Big Blue has approached several vendors and is looking to get $1 billion

Pwned and played: Big Brother is toying with our privacy

The spooks hit World of Warcraft; now they're infiltrating Angry Birds and sullying good Smurf names. Is nothing sacred?

Java’s encrypted communications no panacea for security problems

Transport Layer Security will be turned on in an upcoming Java release, due in mid-March

GOOGLE sells Motorola, keeps patents — FACEBOOK grabs mobile crown — MICROSOFT eyes Nadella for CEO — ELLISON: IBM, SAP no longer threats

Ellison: Facebook is new model for business applications

Interfaces that Oracle and SAP built for their business apps 10 years ago 'aren't appropriate in the age of Facebook and Twitter,' Oracle's CEO says

Facebook sees apps in its future … lots of apps

CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company plans to develop a range of new standalone apps for interacting and sharing content

With Motorola sale to Lenovo, Google is unloading a headache

Buying the handset maker caused tension with Google's Android partners and never delivered profits, analysts say

Intel to close down AppUp online app store

The company will refund users for paid applications through Dec. 19

Facebook asserts its success on mobile with another strong quarter

Facebook reported $2.59 billion in revenue in Q4 -- a 63 percent increase -- with more than half of its ad sales coming from mobile devices