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Bossie Awards 2013: The best open source desktop and mobile software

InfoWorld's top picks in open source desktop productivity, utility, and mobility

Google taps big data for universal translator

Statistical analysis beats algorithms for language translation, Google says, but which massive volumes of linguistic data will it use?

Why won’t I buy an iPhone 5s? Blame Verizon

Faster hardware at the expense of unlimited data is not a choice I should have to make

In a cloud world, developers and admins can’t ignore each other

Infrastructure admins and application admins need to better understand one another, especially when the public cloud is involved

Bossie Awards 2013: The best open source networking and security software

InfoWorld's top picks among open source tools for managing and securing networks, computers, and mobile devices

It’s a science fact: Ig Nobels are the best awards on the planet

Outta the way, Oscars! Vamoose, VMAs! With mouse costumes and beer goggle research, Ig Nobels steal the award spotlight

Box joins crew of companies trying to disrupt Microsoft Office

Box makes good on hiring of Google Docs creator, adds document creation to its cloud storage and collaboration service

Mozilla postpones Metro Firefox release to late January

Slower development pace leads to new launch forecast for touch-ready Windows 8 browser

NSA gets SWIFT — MICROSOFT and Nokia were on eve of WAR — GOOGLE dumps MySQL — EV WILLIAMS thinks big

CloudPhysics monitoring tool offers big data analytics to VMware environments

The startup's cloud-based cards provide 'Google-like operations excellence' to virtualized enterprise data centers