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DOJ says Lavabit cannot prevent search warrants by ‘locking its front gate’

Email provider Lavabit shut down after being forced to give its encryption keys to the U.S. government

Microsoft, Google, Facebook furious after denied full view of government reply to FISA court

The companies were given only a heavily redacted version of the government's response to a request that they be allowed to publish info on data requests

The ‘Internet of things’ needs a lot of work

Connected devices, homes, and cars may make life easier in the long run, but they currently are often a chore to live with, says a panel of mobile experts

Oracle seeks Java performance boost, joins HSA Foundation

Oracle, which has already been working with HSA Foundation on projects, finally becomes a member

Windows XP update locks machines with SVCHOST redlined at 100%: Fix it with KB 2879017

Bug returns with recent patches in Windows XP's Windows Update processing, as SVCHOST pegs 100% CPU utilization

Does Samsung want to be Google or Apple? Maybe both

Hints have emerged around Samsung's prospective plan to move beyond Android and create a new Tizen mobile ecosystem

It’s on — cool heads meet fiery tempers in an IT turf war

A bank's new IT team keeps calm and carries on against in-house challenges by more than one enraged party

A road map to software-defined infrastructure

You can't shift to a software-defined data center overnight, but you can't stick to old, labor-intensive ways, either. IBM's Jamie Thomas tells you how to get there

Chrome 31 pushes Web apps a step closer to desktop apps

Google's Portable Native Client lets developers deploy C/C++ inside desktop Chrome. Will other browser makers join in?