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VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available

The company also announced a number of new management tools at VMworld Europe

Did these guys just reinvent the Web?

San Francisco startup Famo.us is doing amazing things with JavaScript, radically raising the bar on what cross-platform Web and mobile apps can do

Trouble’s brewing in Android land

Indications of desperation at Samsung, chaos at HTC, and reduced focus at Google suggest Android faces rough sailing

Google Glass: Yes, it’s that bad

Google Glass is an idea whose time hasn't come

The shutdown gets real for science and high tech

Think the shutdown only hits panda cams and national parks? Hardly -- scientific research will feel impact for years to come

Imagination dispatches Warrior CPU core to battle ARM and Intel

The U.K. chip firm released its first new MIPS CPU design, a 32-bit device with as many as six cores

Full HD coming to Windows Phone devices

New phones that take advantage of the OS update are expected from Nokia next week

FACEBOOK buys Israeli mobile player — MICROSOFT’s Windows Phone update — NETFLIX on the cable clicker? — Senior TWITTER dev earns, um, $10M

HTC One Max packs fingerprint scanner, 5.9-inch screen

The new large-screen phone from HTC goes on sale later this month

Microsoft ships tool to block IE11 on Windows 7

The toolkit can be used to keep IE11 off Windows machines without disabling Automatic Updates for all other Microsoft software