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In his own words: Best quotes of Steve Ballmer

As he steps down from Microsoft's board, here's a look back at some of his most memorable quotes

Apple preps final non-security Mavericks update

And for the 10 percent of users still running 2011's Lion, the end of all support — patches included — is likely just weeks away

FCC allowed to question AT&T, Verizon on business broadband pricing

The OMB gives the agency permission to collect data on the special-access business broadband market

Steve Ballmer steps down from Microsoft’s board

'I have become very busy' since leaving Microsoft, Ballmer says in a letter to CEO Satya Nadella

VC investors hot for the cloud, mobile, and robots

Deloitte survey shows investment in U.S. tech companies has increased for the third year in a row

Get started with Linux home automation systems

In today's open source roundup: Is it time to automate your home with Linux? Plus: What do Linux users love about systemd? And LinuxCon and CloudOpen start tomorrow

Why would Chinese hackers want hospital patient data?

Medical records data can be a valuable asset, especially in a country where many have no health insurance

Symantec folds nine Norton products into one service

A single product, Norton Security, can be used across Windows, OS X, Android, and iOS

Azure services suffer another outage

Cloud Services, Virtual Machines, and Websites were among those that were affected by the interruptions

Microsoft tweaks SharePoint Online to free up site storage

The company also increased the maximum amount of SharePoint site collections in Office 365 to 500,000 from 10,000

MongoDB adds support option for community edition of its NoSQL database

The service provides as low as a two-hour response time, but leaves out the bells and whistles from MongoDB Enterprise

Hackers steal data on 4.5 million U.S. hospital patients

Community Health Systems says the breach occurred in April and June

Oracle gives Exadata some backward compatibility

Database 10gR2 is now supported on Oracle's flagship 'engineered system,' although caveats apply

MongoDB adds support option for community edition of its NoSQL database

Microsoft preps Office 365 document management tool for lawyers

Matter Center, currently available in limited preview, signals possible interest by Microsoft in creating vertical-industry tools for the Office suite

TPC takes the measure of big data systems

The fresh TPCx-HS benchmark could provide an apples-to-apples comparison of commercial Hadoop systems

Google acquires Jetpac to boost image recognition know-how

Jetpac's technology can be used to find anything on images, but Google is mum about its plans

FCC extends Net neutrality comment period to Sept. 15

The public will now have five additional days to weigh in on how the government should regulate Web traffic

Azure cloud services have a rough week

Outages and service disruptions hit several Azure products in various regions of the world in the past seven days

Does Linux need to change to attract more users?

In today's open source roundup: Should Linux change to attract more users? Plus: A beginner's guide to Linux, and command line tools for Linux system administrators

Samsung buys SmartThings in ambitious push to connect your home

SmartThings makes a mobile app and a software platform for controlling household objects

Rimini Street did steal Oracle’s intellectual property, judge says

The third-part support company had claimed defamation, but a federal judge found Oracle's accusations were true

Google broadens its malware sleuthing to sniff out deceptive downloads

More types of malicious software will be identified by Google's safe browsing service

Infor goes up against Salesforce.com with SalesLogix acquisition

Infor will tie SalesLogix CRM with its ERP apps as well, says CEO Charles Phillips

New Gameover Zeus botnet growing in the U.S.

A new Gameover Zeus malware variant has infected over 10,000 systems so far, researchers say

Six secrets that might encourage Windows users to try Linux

Six things that Windows users should know about Linux. Plus: Four Linux download managers, and why has the controversial systemd been adopted so quickly?

Wyoming to close data centers in cloud shift

The first state to deploy Google Apps makes its next step in moving the state's computing resources to cloud services

Microsoft makes Bing search more chatty

A new feature lets people simplify how they phrase their questions to the search engine

Internet outages expected to abate as routers are modified, rebooted

A flurry of updates to internal router databases caused many pieces of equipment to choke

Cisco slashing up to 6,000 jobs

The reorganization will shift more resources into cloud, software, and security

Dozens of US tech firms violate EU privacy promises

Advocacy group Center for Digital Democracy calls on the FTC to investigate 30 companies for their handling of personal information

Forrester lowers 2014 global IT spending forecast

Analyst blames a weak first half for the downgrade, but says growth should pick up in the remainder of the year

The biggest iPhone security risk could be connecting one to a computer

Design quirks allow malware to be installed on iOS devices and cookies to be plucked from Facebook and Gmail apps

How hackers used Google to steal corporate data

Attackers used Google Developers and public DNS to disguise traffic between the malware and command-and-control servers

Snowden reveals automated NSA cyberwarfare program

MonsterMind could fire back at suspected attackers without human intervention, Snowden says

Oracle E-Business Suite upgrade points to its Fusion dilemma

A slew of upgrades in E-Business Suite 12.2.4 makes the question of adopting Fusion Applications more difficult, one analyst says

Docker gets a GitHub-like repository from CoreOS

The recently purchased Quay.io provides the software and services for CoreOS to run a Docker hub

Amazon hopes to simplify mobile app testing with new tool

Live App Testing is available via Amazon's developer console

Are the Linux versus Windows flame wars finally coming to an end?

In today's open source roundup: The Linux versus Windows wars may be coming to an end. Plus: Linux Mint Debian Edition will switch to Debian Stable, and the virtues of open source textbooks

DOJ asks court to vacate stay in Microsoft email privacy case

The government points to a 'jurisdictional' defect in Microsoft's appeal of a warrant for emails stored in Ireland

Users should patch critical flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat, researchers say

Adobe also releases critical updates for Flash Player and Adobe Air

AppliedMicro’s 64-core chip could spark off ARM core war

AppliedMicro to cram 64 cores in X-Gene 3 chip to crank up performance

Malware no longer avoiding virtual machines

Symantec finds most malware these days doesn't quit on VMs, which used to be a tactic to avoid security checks

Oracle’s Sparc M7 chip to supercharge in-memory computing

The new Sparc chip that will ship in Oracle's Unix servers next year promises big performance gains

Samsung pins its hopes on Galaxy Alpha’s metal frame

But the improvements over existing phones are too small, one analyst said

Microsoft to speed up Bing with FPGAs next year

Microsoft moves from experiment to deployment of FPGAs to deliver faster search results

Microsoft tweaks Windows to lure Internet of things market, maker community

Microsoft is shipping a Galileo board with custom Windows OS to reach smart devices and Internet-connected appliances

SAP makes it cheaper, easier for customers to use Hana in certain scenarios

The move signals that competition has truly arrived in the in-memory database market, says one observer

Former exec says HP ‘bungled’ the Autonomy acquisition, alleges cover-up

An HP spokesperson calls ex-Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain's statements 'preposterous'

Dell targets the storage market with new software bundle

The package of acquired technologies is Dell's first play at becoming a full-fledged storage software vendor