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Rackspace president: Cloud needs open alternative to Amazon
Rackspace President Lew Moorman says that the cloud market needs an open source alternative to the undisputed leading public cloud infrastructure provider in the market, Amazon Web Services. Read More


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15 social media scams
From Facebook phishing lures to Twitter and Tumblr hoaxes, here are 15 scams to watch out for on social networking sites. Read More

Microsoft's Windows Phone 8: First step to a consistent Windows across all platforms
This has been a banner week for Microsoft. On Monday the company announced its Surface line of tablet PCs, to mostly positive reactions, and today Redmond went ahead and shook up the smartphone market. Read More

Defense contracts worth billions cover network operations, cyberthreat sharing, Android security
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) this week awarded Lockheed Martin a three-year contract to support operations and security on the Department of Defense global data network. The contract, which could be extended up to four additional years, might reach a potential $4.6 billion over seven years. Read More


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Microsoft on a roll, gets Congressional support for IE10 DNT, announces Windows Phone 8
Microsoft is on quite the roll; after announcing Do Not Track will be turned on by default for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8 and meeting resistance from the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group, Microsoft received DNT support from the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus. Rep. Joe Barton and Rep. Read More


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Smartphone OS Showdown: Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM Gear Up for Battle
If you're in the market for a new smartphone, don't even think about going down to your local cellphone retailer or AT&T/Sprint/T-Mobile/Verizon retail store to get a new device, at least not yet. Every major smartphone platform including Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone is getting an overhaul with lots of new features, and, presumably, new hardware to go along with it starting in the fall. Read More

Flame was intelligence-gathering tool for Stuxnet
The Flame cyber-weapon was part of an intelligence-gathering operation designed to aid separate more physically disruptive attacks, the Washington Post has reported anonymous US officials as saying. Read More

Metrics firms bicker over which browser, IE or Chrome, is No. 1
A pair of Web metrics firms have traded sharp blows, calling into question how their rival measures browser usage, and whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Google's Chrome is the planet's most popular. Read More

 
 
 

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