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Article | 14/01/2011 Porn worm extorts money from 2,500 victims

A fast-spreading Russian ransom worm that locks people out of their files has found at least 2,500 victims willing to pay up to get back control of th...

Article | 14/01/2011 Gartner's Magic Quadrant disses Amazon cloud

Gartner's Magic Quadrant report has placed Amazon's cloud computing service in one of its lower tiers, saying that for all of Amazon's commercial succ...

Article | 14/01/2011 JFK Library opens largest online digitized presidential archive

Marking the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, the JFK Library Foundation on Thursday unveiled the nation's largest on...

Article | 14/01/2011 RIM plans cloud-based BlackBerry Enterprise Server

BOSTON -- Research in Motion will launch a cloud-based capability for its popular BlackBerry Enterprise Server by the end of 2011, RIM officials said ...

Article | 12/01/2011 Oracle lawsuit not slowing support provider's momentum

Oracle's lawsuit against Rimini Street is not slowing the smaller company's momentum, as it logged its best-ever performance in the fourth quarter, ac...

Article | 12/01/2011 Synology launches RackStation RS411 NAS server

Synology today launched the RackStation RS411, a rack-mountable, network-attached storage (NAS) device designed for businesses.

Article | 11/01/2011 Cloud computing used to hack wireless passwords

German security researcher Thomas Roth has found an innovative use for cloud computing: cracking wireless networks that rely on pre-shared key passphr...

Article | 11/01/2011 Steve Ballmer ousts Bob Muglia from Microsoft's server and tools division

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday that he has decided to replace Bob Muglia as the head of the Server and Tools Business, and that Muglia will l...

Article | 11/01/2011 Protecting data on portable drives

It is almost mind-boggling how much data can be stored on a portable drive or USB thumb drive. As convenient as it is it to be able to carry 1TB of da...

Article | 11/01/2011 All SanDisk USB sticks to get encrypted 'vault'

Storage giant SanDisk has come up with a new half-way house for consumers who want to use encryption on portable USB without diving in at the deep end...

Article | 11/01/2011 Amazon launches new cloud services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced two new pricing plans for its cloud service and has reduced the prices for its existing offerings.

Article | 11/01/2011 Microsoft's Muglia stepping down

Longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia, president of the company's server and tools business, will step down from his position later this year, accor...

Article | 7/01/2011 BitTorrent to put its stamp on Taiwanese electronics

BitTorrent will work with a Taiwanese research institute to develop a certification scheme for local consumer electronics makers who want to put its f...

Article | 9/01/2011 Hard drive withstands drops, submersion, shot gun blasts

ioSafe's Rugged Portable hard drive launched at the Consumer Electronics Show this week withstood drops, submersion and even blasts from a 12-guage sh...

Article | 7/01/2011 Apache to steward NASA built middleware

The Apache Software Foundation is extending its breadth of open-source software projects to include a package of data-management middleware developed ...

Article | 7/01/2011 Amazon Web Services improves support offerings

Amazon Web Services on Thursday rolled out two premium support tiers and announced a 50 per cent price cut on existing premium plans, heightening comp...

Article | 6/01/2011 New Linux kernel strengthens SMP support

The latest release of the Linux operating system kernel offers a number of improvements that should speed up operations in SMP (symmetric multiprocess...

Article | 6/01/2011 Seagate shows super-slim external hard drive

Can a hard drive be thin? Absolutely.

Article | 6/01/2011 Seagate unveils GoFlex partner program, USM compatibility

We admit it: When Seagate first introduced its GoFlex line of storage, we were skeptical. The connector was inelegant, and frankly, it seemed as if ...

Article | 6/01/2011 Google wins injunction against agency using Microsoft cloud

A judge has sided with Google and issued a preliminary injunction ordering the U.S. Department of the Interior to abandon procurement efforts for a Mi...