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T-Mobile Germany banning Skype for iPhone
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Microsoft says phones are bad
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Cisco rolls out low-end ($89K) telepresence system
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Phishers harvest Facebook passwords for profit
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Heartland breach cost firm $12.6M -- so far
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McAfee buying Solidcore for whitelisting technology
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Is the U.S. ready for government-sponsored cyberattacks?
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NSF wants $7B to head off demise of Moore's law, fund cybersecurity research and more
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Microsoft opens My Phone beta, plans new features
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28% taking smartphones and laptops to bed for work: survey
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Sprint CEO preaches patience at JP Morgan tech conference
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Primrose for iPhone
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Cisco supplying WiMAX gear to Clearwire
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Texting doesn't cause car accidents, I do
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Wi-Fi hotspots get a second wind
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Amazon optimizes Kindle Store for iPhone
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Purported BlackBerry 'Onyx' photos surface
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Bill would turn Internet flamers into felons
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Toshiba sues Imation and others over DVD patents
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3D LCD TVs that don't require glasses coming soon
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Wii console sales hit 8 million in Japan as growth slows
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EarthLink suffers Earth Day crash
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Dell expands managed service for SMBs
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Nokia Siemens opens network management center in India
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French gov't will train SMEs to use Google, Microsoft tools
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Canon unveils entry-level DSLR with high-def video
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Dish Network charged with do-not-call violations
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Chinese portal Sohu's online game firm files for IPO in U.S.
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FCC releases list of TV stations converting early to digital
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Verizon helps businesses launch conferencing
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Polycom unwraps videoconferencing platform for midsize businesses
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HP claims Cisco 'alternative' mantle
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Stockholm wins broadband award
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Adtran unveils Layer 3 switches
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Interop network all about redundancy
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Gigabit Ethernet switches from BLADE on tap at Interop
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New Google Search Options Filter, View Results in New Ways
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Verizon sheds rural access lines in $8.6 billion deal with Frontier Communications
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Start-up Arista offers copper 10G data center switches
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Nortel sets up network operations center in India
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Aruba unveils low-priced WLAN gear
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Extreme racks up switch port density
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6 ways to protect your privacy on Google
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3Com takes another shot at enterprise switching, hoping third time is a charm
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IBM appliance speeds up software installation
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Chinese regulations target rising cybercrime
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Sprint will launch Palm Pre on June 6
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New $369 Dell netbook for schools has germ-busting keyboard
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Vodafone cuts costs ahead of plan, but sees more gloom ahead
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Microsoft confirms serious IIS bug, downplays threat
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Acer Netbook Challenges Laptops on User Happiness
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Nokia cuts logistics, support jobs
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After 'tour de force' mission, NASA crew says goodbye to Hubble
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Find Your Files Free With Everything Search Engine
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Wolfram Alpha acts as a 'computational knowledge engine'
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RoamBi offers a new look at data on the iPhone
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Palm Pre Hits Stores on June 6
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Google outage won't threaten cloud adoption: CIOs
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Microsoft opens up mobile backup application to all
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Paid Twitter services coming by year's end
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Facebook Embraces OpenID: But What Does It Mean?
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Cisco unveils a grab bag of wireless LAN products
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Novell’s SLED 11 to ship with Active Directory gateway technology
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Make iTunes and Windows Media Center work together
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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 beta in two months
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Google suffers major failure
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Gmail makes switching e-Mail services easier
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Microsoft's software pipeline set to burst
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Apple Orders Developers to Comply with iPhone OS 3.0
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Rimini street keeps cashing in
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IBM touts 'stream computing' for real-time data analysis
IBM's new software analyzes thousands of simultaneous data streams to provide insight that help businesses solve their most challenging problems.
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Oracle buys Virtual Iron, bolsters virtualization management lineup
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BUZZBLOG
Identity theft lurks around every one of life's turns by Paul McNamara
Two reports today via the DataLossDB newsletter demonstrate again that there is a seemingly limitless variety of ways in which your personal information can fall into the wrong hands....
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LAYER 8 BLOG
Inside the bad-ass world of military research projects by Michael CooneyWhen it comes to building the most advanced, bad-ass technologies around there are few science enclaves that can match the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Last week the... 9
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'NET INSIDER
Sony: wishing to be in a different world?Clearly there are many places that are essentially Internet-free, but the Internet is a major factor in most of the developed world. Not everyone is all that happy with the impact.... 1
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BACKSPIN
Willful technological ignorance"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds" – Will RogersA few weeks ago I came across a neat piece of public relations fluff by GE. This is part of the... 4
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GOOGLE SUBNET BLOG
Twitter dismisses Google ad model by Google SubnetTwitter co-founder Biz Stone told Reuters he has no plans to monetize the micro-blogging service via...
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CISCO SUBNET
Cisco janitors plan protest at Stanford by Cisco SubnetThose following the saga of the 75 janitors laid off from Cisco might want to keep the date of May 21 in...
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BRAD REESE ON CISCO
Beware Cisco of how the mighty fall by Brad ReeseThe press adores Cisco and for good reason. $33.5 billion of cash, cash equivalents and investments on its... 1
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MICROSOFT SUBNET
Microsoft demos SecondLight 3D UI with its next-gen Surface by Microsoft SubnetMicrosoft has been investing a lot of energy into new user interfaces such as gesture-based interactions that...
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CONVERGING ON MICROSOFT
Should Software Licenses Hold Vendors Accountable? Microsoft and Linux Say No by Mitchell AshleyOver the weekend Microsoft and the Linux Foundation issued a joint letter to the ALI (American Law Institute)... 2
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Steve Jobs won't be delivering this years WWDC Keynote Address by Yoni HeislerSteve Jobs scheduled June return to his position as CEO of Apple generated a lot of speculation that Jobs...
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