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VMWARE buys into mobile — AMAZON mulled pay-TV offering — BOTNET strikes again — FACEBOOK’s meta-stalker — Feds grill Google GLASS moviegoer

AMD slows Opteron 6300 chips to match workloads

AMD's new processors have a slower clock speed than their predecessors to reduce power consumption

Google Glass user in Ohio theater suspected of piracy

Man was questioned by Homeland Security and allowed to go after it was found he was not using Google Glass to record the movie

Google loses Android patent lawsuit, faces claim for $125 million in damages

A jury found Google guilty of infringing SimpleAir's push technology patent but could not agree on damages, which will be determined in a second jury trial

Maryland opts for gradual Google Apps rollout

The state's migration of 54,000 employees to Google Apps started in early 2012 and will be finished in mid-2015

What do we want? Windows 9 — sorry, Windows 8

There are good arguments for both an interim Windows 8.2 upgrade and skipping straight to Windows 8's true successor

Anti-Google protestors are barking up the wrong bus stop

Why the fuss over Google's employee shuttles? Let's get back to the real reasons we hate Google -- Google Glasses, for starters

Cloud services for mobile developers: Google vs. Amazon vs. Azure vs. Parse

Cloud-based back-ends for mobile applications combine key services with varying degrees of complexity

Hardware torpedoes IBM’s Q4 revenue

Sluggish sales of IBM mainframes and other hardware put a damper on the company's latest quarterly earnings report

Buying a hard drive? Stats say get Hitachi, avoid Seagate

Cloud backup outfit Backblaze crunched data on low-cost hard drives in its data centers to figure out failure profiles for consumer brands