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Reports: Apple manager arrested over $1 million in kickbacks
An Apple manager with responsibilities for the company's contract manufacturing in Asia was arrested Friday and charged with accepting kickbacks. Read More


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Mobile deathmatch: RIM BlackBerry Torch 9800 vs. Apple iPhone 4, side by side
See how well the new touch-based BlackBerry and the latest iPhone do in InfoWorld's features face-off. Read More

Apple Kickback Scheme: Don't Let This Happen to You
A global supply chain manager for Apple has been arrested as a result of allegedly accepting more than $1 million in bribes and kickbacks. Apple's investigation focused on personal Web-based e-mail accounts on the accused manager's Apple-issued laptop, and provides valuable lessons for enforcing policies and protecting data. Read More

OpenSolaris is Dead. Long Live Solaris 11 Express
A post at the alasdair on everything blog leaked a memo sent to the Oracle engineering team on August 12th, stating in no uncertain terms that Oracle will not be releasing further builds of OpenSolaris. Read More


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Google calls Oracle lawsuit 'baseless,' vows to fight it
Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform. Read More

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Asustek Computer plans to launch its first tablet device with Google's Android mobile operating system in March, the company's CEO said Friday. Read More

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Support remains the weak link in open source software adoption
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Materials research needed to make space elevator a reality
While much of the first day of the Space Elevator Conference was dedicated to the problem of space trash, the concept also faces another significant challenge. Read More

Giant nets could some day capture space trash
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Volunteer scientists aid in discovery of neutron star
The Einstein@Home project – one of dozens of grid computing projects that rely on the CPU cycles of volunteers' home and office computers – is being credited with discovery of a new radio pulsar. Read More



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