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IBM starts restricting hardware patches to paying customers

Following an Oracle practice, IBM starts to restrict hardware patches to holders of maintenance contracts

It’s official: We all speak geek now

Geek domination steams along, as 'phablet,' 'srsly,' and 'selfie' land in Oxford Dictionaries Online's list of new words for 2013

VMware’s virtualization quest could help shake up storage, too

The company is pitching several upcoming storage technologies at VMworld alongside its NSX network hypervisor

Spear phishing led to DNS attack against New York Times, Twitter, others

Hackers managed to compromise the log-in credentials for a Melbourne IT domain reseller responsible for the affected domains

SOFTWARE PATENTS BANNED in New Zealand — Worldwide HACKATHON hits NYTIMES — WIN8 apps may not run with Win8.1 — BRAIN CONTROL over the Internet

Google cuts Nexus 4 price by up to a third in some key markets

Competition is heating up in the smartphone market ahead of Apple's next iPhone launch

Canonical looking to team with Dell on Chinese version of Ubuntu OS

The two companies are discussing using Ubuntu Kylin OS as a pre-installed OS on the PC maker's upcoming products destined for the Chinese market

Oracle software will run faster with new Sparc M6 chip

The latest Sparc processor has 12 processor cores, effectively doubling the number of cores of its predecessor, the M5

MIT develops 110-core processor for more power-efficient computing

MIT says the power-efficient data transfers of the experimental Execution Migration Machine chip could apply to mobile devices and databases

Server revenue continued slide in Q2 on weak demand, says IDC

IBM and HP held on to the top two positions but with declining market share and with revenue and unit sales down