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IBM, Microsoft strike a blow against patent-troll reform

Tech giants help defang provision in current anti-patent-troll legislation designed to invalidate low-quality patents

Review: Puppet vs. Chef vs. Ansible vs. Salt

The leading configuration management and orchestration tools take different paths to server automation

Jailbreak a phone, go to jail: Copyright law, the TPP way

Even more examples of ill-informed thinking lurk in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the SOPA/CISPA/PIPA redux

Microsoft to deliver Office 2013 SP1 in early ’14

The late February update will sync 'perpetual license' version with Office 365 changes, new features

Qualcomm wants to bring ‘brains’ to smartphones, tablets

Qualcomm's new Zeroth chip is designed to mimic the human brain

New OpenSuse embraces 64-bit ARM

Newly released OpenSuse 13.1 distribution comes with the latest version of OpenStack

Apple still making it hard to think differently

Apple repeatedly bows to censorship demands in places like China

BENIOFF bellows — Mobile carriers KILL theft ‘kill switch’ — GATES chokes up — Desktop printing CIRCUITS on paper, cotton

Data centers play fast and loose with reliability credentials

The Uptime Institute says some data centers are getting creative with their reliability claims

In role reversal, Ballmer stays composed, Gates chokes up, in shareholder meeting

It was another farewell appearance for Ballmer, who will retire as CEO at some point in the next nine months or so