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Freedom, he insists, is not an optional ingredient.

Column about contest Oracle is running in conjunction with the forthcoming film Iron Man 2 in which Oracle will select a winner from submissions describing the excellence of the IT transformation that team has undergone.

A preview of the National Broadband Plan reveals sweeping proposals the agency hopes Congress will support.

Raising new privacy concerns, research shows that the DNA signatures of bacteria transferred to objects by human touch can be used for identification.

The company is launching quick messaging devices, inexpensive phones with an online address book, messaging, and the ability to share photos and video with friends or social networks.

A House report recommends changes to military IT procurement policies ahead of possible broader reform legislation.

The Progress Software product combines Savvion business process management technology with complex event processing and monitoring capabilities.

Microsoft also reveals phone's support for cameras, microphones, graphics, and more at MIX10 conference.

Reports indicate that Google.cn could go dark in a matter of weeks, news that has brightened the financial prospects of Google's rivals in China.

Global PC shipments show solid increases over the next five years, but revenue will recover at a slower pace, say analysts.

With the ZoneFlex 7300 midrange access points, Ruckus is trying to differentiate its enterprise 802.11n product on both price and performance.

Social networking service girds for international growth with addition of foreign offices.

The Government Accountability Office finds data quality on USASpending.gov lacking, and urges the White House to add subcontractor data to the site.

Prospects of an enhanced movie recommendation system raised privacy concerns at the FTC and among the company's customers.

Timothy Cook's bonus rewards his performance as acting CEO while Steve Jobs was on medical leave in 2009.

The Federal Communications Commission also announced its first mobile app available via Apple's iPhone and Google Android smartphones.

Barnes & Noble already offers eReader software for Windows PC, Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch and Blackberry devices.

The 32-nanometer processor known as Gulftown is the successor to Intel's quad-core Core i7-975x Extreme.

The Java application open source caching system gets a major upgrade.

Without a central ERP system or sophisticated BI tools, Maryland officials have nevertheless seen positive changes as a result of the StateStat program.

Customers whose power cells malfunctions will receive a replacement iPad for just $99, according to support bulletin.

The bubble burst wasn't as bad as people made it out to be, and the new business models, services, innovations, and economic growth it spawned are unprecedented.

Column about IBM attacking a study that it says was funded by Microsoft and that calls for server hardware and software to be unbundled, and for the same policy to apply for mainframes.

Enterprise communications is speeding toward a convergence of voice, data, and video. See it all come together at VoiceCon 2010 in Orlando, March 22 - March 25.

Microsoft will unveil Silverlight Analytics Framework at the Web designers & developers conference kicking off March 15 in Las Vegas, while Preemptive will launch Runtime Intelligence Analytics Provider for Silverlight.

But sales of all gaming hardware, including the Sony PS2, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS, are down from a year ago.

The agreement puts Microsoft's Bing search on Motorola's Android smartphones.

Promising consequences if Google flouts China's censorship laws, Chinese authorities also chide the U.S. for its human rights record.

Software and service bundles are designed to make implementation time and cost predictable.

Spiking sales of PCs, external drives, and optical drives signal increasing revenue for the storage sector.

Column about why IBM CEO Sam Palmisano deserves his $24.3 million pay package, and why the labor-movement groups screeching about it are all wrong.

The company is promising to deliver its "magical" device in early April.

The 32 GB solid-state drive will be priced under $100, company says.

XenApp 6 will launch this month with management tools designed to ease the difficulty of virtualizing enterprise applications.

At the Game Developers Conference, accounts of run ins with hackers show many gaming firms haven't grasped how cybercrime can ruin everything.

The company sees an opportunity in modular, shipping container-based data centers in military, SaaS, and other markets.

The mobile browser compresses data by up to 90%, resulting in a faster smartphone Internet experience, according to Opera.

CIO Tim Schaefer's team puts hard-dollar values on IT systems as assets, and boldly says the language IT uses is important.

Nearly 40 developers and game publishers are building software for the PlayStation Move, said Sony.

Finding nearby things to buy and automating actions in Google Apps just got easier.

IT outsourcer wants at least half the workers at its American facilities to be of local origin.

Software vendor teams with state officials to offer access to e-learning courses and certification exams.

The Department of Justice indictment alleges that a former TSA employee tampered with servers containing data from the Terrorist Screening Database.

As the networking behemoths battle over router speed claims, both are attempting to cement public personas, and clue in non-technical consumers on who they are.

The deal calls for Science Applications International Corp. to develop new software and modify existing Navy command and control systems.

E-mail verification company RPost has brought a federal suit charging the Swiss agency of patent and trademark infringement.

New search service sends New York cyclists into prohibited lanes and onto streets filled with careening trucks and crazed cabbies.

The consumer electronics firm joins rivals Samsung and Sony in championing 3D TV home systems.

Column about how Cisco's new CRS-3 router will accelerate, create new opportunities for 14 key companies, and give CIOs new capabilities to weave into new business models and IT strategies.

Group seeks to balance privacy concerns with a healthcare system that facilitates and enhances care.