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The Chrome Apps empire could be coming to iOS

Google plans to let developers deploy Chrome-packaged apps on any platform where there's Chrome -- including Android and iOS

PASSWORD cache discovered — White House targets patent TROLLS — GOOGLE crawling with robots — OMIDYAR on 1st Amendment — The T-WORD

Two million log-ins stolen from Facebook, Google, ADP payroll processor

The attackers are using the 'Pony' botnet command-and-control server software

China passes Japan to become world’s 2nd largest IT market

The U.S. still has an IT market three times the size of China, though the latter is seeing far more rapid growth, IDC says

Critics to Congress: Put the brakes on patent bill

A patent reform bill targeting so-called trolls needs more time to mature, several groups say

Yahoo acquires mobile video app startup Ptch

Yahoo continues its string of acquisitions, will shut down the Ptch video service by Jan. 2

Fibre Channel hits key landmark on the way to 32Gbps

Specification calling for 32Gbps is finished, though faster SANs may not ship until 2016

NSA spying scandal accelerating China’s push to favor local tech vendors

Revelations about U.S. secret surveillance have put a strain on the China business of Cisco and Qualcomm, the companies say

Botched Outlook 2013 patches KB 2837618 and KB 2837643 break Out Of Office reply, Free/Busy, and more

Installing KB 2837618 causes slew of problems, and addition of KB 2837643 makes it impossible to fix them through a simple uninstall

JetBrains builds on Google Android collaboration for new IntelliJ IDEA

IntelliJ IDEA 13 has improved supports for the Java Spring framework