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Oracle takes the fight to Amazon, Salesforce.com with new cloud services

Ten new cloud services plus a marketplace are being added to Oracle's arsenal

Apple’s 64-bit A7 is no gimmick

New iPhone 5s processor clocks big performance leap over its predecessors, proving its 64-bitness is more than a marketing ploy

Red Hat serves middleware to cloud developers

Red Hat deploys its JBoss set of middleware tool to its OpenShift PaaS

FAA preparing to remove restrictions on in-flight electronic devices

Ban on device usage during takeoff and landing has long been believed to be based more on anecdotes than actual data

Chrome will block NPAPI plug-ins over stability, security concerns

Google plans to completely remove support for the popular Netscape Plug-in APIs from Chrome by the end of 2014

Update: Google fixes lengthy, widespread Gmail malfunction

A 10-hour disruption that affected email delivery and attachment downloads affected close to 50 percent of Gmail users

ZTE will bring second wave of Firefox OS phones to US next year

ZTE will begin selling its Grand S and Nubia phones in the U.S. through retailers starting in October

BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iPhone will not roll out this week

The company is trying to block an unreleased version of the Android app that has been downloaded by over 1 million active users

MICROSOFT answers Apple with, er, Surface 2 — BLACKBERRY bought for patent cudgel — FLIPBOARD approaches $1B valuation — BETAWORKS threatens VC model

Microsoft puts Windows XP laggards in a pinch

Windows 8.1 is no longer recommended for upgrades, and a Windows 7 sales cut-off looms