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Dance of the zombies: Why going private won’t save Dell or BlackBerry

Conventional wisdom says getting Wall Street off a failing company's back will save the day, but new research proves otherwise

Show of hands: Who hasn’t hacked Apple’s Touch ID?

Turns out that fingers (real and fake) are just one way to unlock an iPhone 5s; noses, toes, and other body parts also apply

Samsung provides tools to nudge Galaxy devices into enterprise

The company has released a Galaxy SDK and 1,000 APIs

AMAZON catches Fire — HUGE IDENTITY heist — ELLISON blows off customers — REALNETWORKS back with video sharing

Microsoft sole Windows RT tablet vendor as Dell’s XPS 10 is ‘unavailable’

Dell no longer selling XPS 10 tablet models with Windows RT, after Lenovo, Asus and Samsung bailed on the device

Microsoft’s big draw for Oracle on Azure: Simplified licensing

Rent Windows Server instances on Azure and get Oracle's database offerings too -- but for how much?

Fujitsu will stick with Unix to keep IBM in check, exec says

If IBM gains another cash cow like its mainframe business it will become too powerful, a Fujitsu exec said at OpenWorld

Microsoft’s most loyal users ask for Surface trade-in program

One of the top requests in a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' with the Surface team was for a tablet buyback deal to fund purchases of newest devices

SkyDrive stumbles, becomes latest cloud app to get glitchy

The problems with Microsoft's cloud storage service follow a major disruption of Google's Gmail earlier in the week

Citrix aims for VMware, Amazon with new cloud strategy

Citrix says clouds must cater to the applications, not the architecture