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Can Samsung become Apple? Only if it executes well

The company has the resources and the consumer goodwill, but it also has struggled to get software and services right

Is the diversity of Linux its greatest strength?

Today in Open Source: Celebrate the diversity of Linux. Plus: An easy way to customize Android, and a tour of Ubuntu Touch 1.0

Cisco, EFF call on Congress to target patent-troll demand letters

Patent assertion entities are trying to extort settlements from small businesses, witnesses tell senators

Report: CIA pays AT&T for international call data

Carrier turns over information about international calls on its network under voluntary contract, New York Times says

Microsoft Office Web Apps takes great leap toward Office equality

Newest version of Office Web Apps boasts live collaborative editing, but still trails Office for Windows in other areas

Twitter goes public at $45 a share

Actor Patrick Stewart rings opening bell, as Twitter tweets '#Ring!'

TWITTER goes public, SQUARE may follow — Yammer & co-authoring added to OFFICE — MICROSOFT makes $2B annually on Droid patents — FACEBOOK likes open source

Microsoft, Google, and Facebook team up on new bug bounty program

Bug bounty plan rewards security researchers for finding flaws in widely used software that can affect masses of Internet users

Bruce Schneier: Business model of the Internet has been surveillance

Security guru says Snowden exposed larger problem: 'Dichotomy of the societal benefits of big data versus the individual risks of personal data'

Biz Stone’s Jelly app ‘very close’ to launching, will be free for iOS and Android

Twitter co-founder's mysterious new company now has a permanent office space in San Francisco