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Article | 6/04/2013 Facebook weighs in on Home's privacy implications

Facebook has posted a Q&A on its website about the privacy implications of its new Facebook Home software for Android phones, though it was unclear if...

Article | 5/04/2013 From pretexting to Autonomy: A timeline of HP management changes

It's been a turbulent decade at Hewlett-Packard, with board members and CEOs resigning or being ousted for all manner of colorful reasons, including s...

Article | 4/04/2013 HP chairman, Ray Lane, steps down amid discontent over Autonomy

Hewlett-Packard's Ray Lane is giving up his role as chairman amid ongoing shareholder disapproval of HP's troubled Autonomy acquisition.

Article | 3/04/2013 Medical devices, non-smoking aids among top patent growth areas

Computers was the biggest area for patent activity worldwide last year, but medical devices saw the most growth, according to a new report this week.

Article | 26/03/2013 With new Sparc systems, Oracle begins shift to single chip architecture

Oracle has announced a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors and in the process has begun an expected shift toward converging its two familie...

Article | 21/03/2013 HP board survives confidence vote, but only barely

Hewlett-Packard's shareholders have voted to reelect its entire board of directors, despite opposition from investors who want some members held accou...

Article | 19/03/2013 Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch resigns to work at Apple

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company to take a job at Apple, a one-time close partner of Adobe that became the most vociferous critic of its F...

Article | 19/03/2013 Warren East explains why he's leaving ARM

Warren East, the outgoing CEO of UK chip design company ARM, has never displayed the bravado of his counterparts across the Atlantic, and that was on ...

Article | 15/03/2013 Samsung unveils Galaxy S IV with novel camera design

Samsung has taken the wraps off of its new Galaxy S IV smartphone, which will support global LTE roaming and has front- and rear-facing cameras that c...

Article | 6/03/2013 EBay develops 'miles per gallon' metric for data centers

There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement syst...

Article | 1/03/2013 Judge lowers Apple's $1 billion Samsung award, orders partial retrial

A judge has ordered a partial retrial in Apple's patent lawsuit against Samsung in California, and has cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the $1...

Article | 1/03/2013 New SPEC tool to ID most energy-efficient servers

SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has released a new toolkit that should help customers choose the most energy-efficient server for...

Article | 28/02/2013 Cisco joins top 5 server vendors for the first time, IDC says

Cisco Systems has entered the list of the top 5 server vendors for the first time, drawing level with Fujitsu and Oracle in a tie for fourth place, ac...

Article | 26/02/2013 Intel releases Hadoop software primed for its own chips

Intel has released its own Hadoop distribution in a move intended to accelerate adoption of the big data platform while ensuring more of those workloa...

Article | 22/02/2013 Microsoft joins list of recently hacked companies

Microsoft has disclosed that it recently fell victim to the same type of cyberattack that targeted Apple and Facebook.