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Democratic lawmakers look to restore Net neutrality

Bills in the House and Senate would restore the FCC's rules after an appeals court threw them out

Windows XP support cutoff poses data breach risk for retailers

Symantec said retailers running Windows XP-based POS terminals will soon face an increased attack risk

Mozilla defers Firefox’s new ‘Australis’ UI to April

Australis will be the first major visual overhaul since 2011

Forrester: HTML5 apps still not as good as native apps

Target credential theft highlights third-party vendor risk

Any company is wise to remember that its security is only as strong as the weakest link in its supply chain

FTC: Medical transcription firm allowed histories to be on search engine

The agency announces a data-breach settlement with the California company

Twitter buys 900 IBM patents, dodging a potential infringement suit

The patents likely cover a range of software and tools of interest to Twitter

IBM to consolidate communication and collaboration wares into Connections suite

Connections' scope will extend beyond enterprise social networking to include email, productivity apps, and video conferencing

Does your pay measure up? The 2014 tech salary guide

SequenceL language takes the pain out of multicore coding

Office 365 turns one, but success is tough to tally

Beware of misleading numbers, says one analyst; look at Office Web Apps' progress, argues another

Google revenue rises despite Motorola slip

The company saw a healthy 17 percent rise in revenue for Q4, but had mixed results in its ads business

SDN thinking lags behind technology, VMware’s Casado says

Most enterprises need help moving beyond traditional networks, the SDN pioneer said

Tor-enabled malware stole credit card data from PoS systems at dozens of retailers

Details of over 50,000 credit and debit cards have been stolen from 119 PoS terminals infected with a malware program called ChewBacca

Startup Altiscale offers Hadoop hosted service

Yahoo Hadoop veterans band together to offer an Hadoop-as-a-service

IBM looking to sell its SDN business

Big Blue has approached several vendors and is looking to get $1 billion

Java’s encrypted communications no panacea for security problems

Transport Level Security mitigates but doesn't resolve Java's security vulnerabilities

Ellison: Facebook is new model for business applications

Interfaces that Oracle and SAP built for their business apps 10 years ago 'aren't appropriate in the age of Facebook and Twitter,' Oracle's CEO says

Target says attackers used stolen vendor credentials to gain access

The retailer has updated and limited access controls as the investigation into the data breach continues

Facebook sees apps in its future … lots of apps

CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company plans to develop a range of new standalone apps for interacting and sharing content

Today’s on-premises ERP systems will soon get the ‘legacy’ label

Highly customized ERP systems are now 'arthritic,' Gartner says, and main beneficiaries were the consultants who managed the re-engineering and implementation

With Motorola sale to Lenovo, Google is unloading a headache

Buying the handset maker caused tension with Google's Android partners and never delivered profits, analysts say

Intel to close down AppUp online app store

The company will refund users for paid applications through Dec. 19

Facebook asserts its success on mobile with another strong quarter

Facebook reported $2.59 billion in revenue in Q4 — a 63 percent increase — with more than half of its ad sales coming from mobile devices

Ellison says IBM and SAP no longer Oracle’s main rivals

The CEO said he's focused on agile cloud providers like Amazon and Salesforce.com

Java memory model takes small step toward modernization

Proposed revisions to the Java Memory Model would be the first since JDK 5

Lenovo to buy Motorola smartphone division from Google for $2.91 billion

But Google will retain ownership of most of the Motorola Mobility patent portfolio

Ellison says IBM and SAP no longer Oracle’s main rivals

Ellison says Oracle's not late to the cloud, it's just a bigger contender than most

Cisco unveils ‘fog computing’ to bridge clouds and the Internet of Things

It will add Linux to small edge routers to help crunch data coming from devices in the field

AMD debuts first ARM processor

Samples of the Opteron four- and eight-core, 64-bit A1100 Series ARM processors will ship to AMD partners this quarter

Microsoft joins ARM server effort

ARM versions of products like Windows Server and Hyper-V could be in the works

VoltDB looks to gain ground in crowded in-memory database market

VoltDB's new 4.0 release boosts the database's analytic workload capabilities

Yahoo reports another sales decline as ads sag

CEO Marissa Mayer cited the company's investments and acquisitions as laying a foundation for revenue growth

German government faces legal action over NSA spying

Several people and organizations are suing the German government for allegedly aided the NSA in its data collection program

FileZilla warns of large malware campaign

Spoofed versions of the open source FTP program circulating on third-party websites are designed to steal log-in credentials

Facebook uses 10,000 Blu-ray discs in low-power storage system

Blu-ray fits the bill for infrequently accessed data, reducing costs by 50 percent and energy use by 80 percent, Facebook says

Lenovo restructures to focus on enterprise products, software after IBM deal

Lenovo is creating two new business groups devoted to its enterprise products and to developing a software ecosystem

Obama touches on NSA reform in State of the Union address

The president also called for patent reform and for faster broadband in schools

Lavabit case highlights legal fuzziness around encryption rules

Defunct secure email service Lavabit argued that the government court order for encrypted email was too sweeping

Partners get improved admin tools to manage customers’ Office 365 environments

With the new admin console, Microsoft wants to help Office 365 resellers and system integrators provide better service to their customers

VPN bypass vulnerability affects Android ‘Jelly Bean’ and ‘KitKat’

Researchers say the vulnerability could allow attackers to intercept traffic from Android devices despite an active VPN connection

North Korea wraps its tentacles around Linux and Open Source

Today in Open Source: North Korea adopts Open Source and Linux. Plus: Five bleeding edge but stable distributions, and how to install desktop Linux on a Chromebook

Oracle broadens legal fight against third-party Solaris support providers

StratisCom is the latest provider to be named in an Oracle lawsuit

What’s next on Google’s kill list? Signs point to Google Code

Evidence is mounting that Google Code is next on Google's chopping block

VPN bypass vulnerability affects Android Jelly Bean and KitKat, researchers say

Malicious apps can exploit the Android vulnerability to bypass an active VPN connection

Sweet! Researchers create powerful batteries that run on sugar

Cheap, refillable, and biodegradable, these batteries could power smartphones and tablets by 2017, say engineers at Virginia Tech

Microsoft contributes cloud server designs for Facebook’s Open Compute Project

Microsoft also aims to set up an open-source software community in the Open Compute Project

Telerik lets developers choose between building Web, hybrid or native apps

A complete version of Telerik Platform costs from $149 per user and month

Old-school Wi-Fi is slowing down networks, Cisco says

Cisco engineers propose standards change to pare down traffic sent using old, slow forms of Wi-Fi that clog channels

Lavabit to have its day in federal appeals court

The now defunct secure email service is standing up for the right to protect encrypted communications