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The ultimate guide to mobile strategies that work

Businesses are finally waking up to the fact that tablets and smartphones are good for the bottom line

Goldman Sachs, with 10,000 tech workers, embraces open systems

Risk-averse Goldman Sachs is an advocate of Facebook's Open Compute Project, embracing open systems, commodity computing

Samsung introduces first 1TB MiniSATA SSD

The new 840 EVO mSATA SSD is 60 percent thinner than a standard 2.5-inch notebook drive

Trolls, orcs, and spooks: The breaching of World of Warcraft

8 Internet giants have asked Congress to rein in the NSA -- but let's discuss the spies who may have pwned you online

Qualcomm releases Gimbal sensors for short-range tracking

Like Apple's just-released iBeacon, Qualcomm uses Bluetooth to build location-based marketing systems

QEMU revs its open source virtualization platform

Modern virtualization platforms like Xen and KVM have leveraged the work of QEMU projects to get a technological jump start

Verizon acquires EdgeCast to boost video capabilities

Verizon will be able to offer more enterprise services to improve video streaming performance and protect websites against attacks

Ubuntu 13.10: The good, the bad, and the ugly

The new Touch operating system for mobile devices is still a work in progress

TECH GIANTS unite against US gov’t — ADOBE struggles to keep up — Crimeware king PAUNCH revealed — Combing big data at the NYT

Apple, Google, Microsoft ask governments to reform surveillance practices

AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and LinkedIn are also among the tech companies wanting the U.S. to lead the reform of surveillance laws and practices