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Enterprise Social Software Spend Creeping Up to $1 Billion
The worldwide market for enterprise social software will top $769 million in 2011, up 15.7 percent from the $664 million spent in 2010, according...
Windows Phone 7 Sales Suggest Competitive Smartphone
Microsoft finally offered some hard sales numbers for Windows Phone 7 this week, suggesting that mobile operators and retailers had purchased some 1.5 million...
Skype Suffers Massive, Multi-hour Network Outage
Skype suffered a serious server outage Dec. 22 that left swaths of its 560 million or so worldwide users without PC-calling capabilities for most...
10 Compact Hard Disks Delivering Terabyte-Scale Storage
10 Compact Hard Disks Delivering Terabyte-Scale Storage
by Fahmida Y Rashid
Seagate Constellation.2
This 2.5-inch hard disk drive from Seagate Technologies is available in 250GB, 500GB and...
Android Will Keep Motorola a Top Smartphone Player in 2011: 10 Reasons Why
Motorola isn't necessarily one of the first companies that people recall when they start thinking about prominent firms in the tech space. Typically, they...
Microsoft Debuting ARM-Based Windows for Tablets: Report
Microsoft is planning to use January's Consumer Electronics Show to debut a version of Windows that leverages ARM Holdings technology, according to a new...
DDoS Attacks Targeting Human Rights Sites Rise as Weapon
It's no secret denial-of-service attacks have increasingly become a mode of protest in the cyber-world, as well as a way to silence political critics;...
OpenBSD Founder: NetSec Probably Contracted to Plant Backdoors
The founder of the OpenBSD project said he believes a firm was "probably contracted" by the government to write backdoors in the OpenBSD Cryptographic...
Minnesota Man Hacked Neighbor’s WiFi, Threatened Vice President
Animosity between neighbors has a Minnesota man facing the possibility of decades behind bars after he pleaded guilty to impersonating his neighbor online, distributing...
Verizon Motorola 4G Android Phone on Horizon
Verizon Wireless will sell a 4G smartphone from Motorola in 2011, which by default means Google's Android platform will power the handset.Verizon COO John...