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Microsoft this week announced general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure Services. The Infrastructure as a Service offering previously had been in limited release The cloud service lets users deploy full virtual machines created from a gallery of pre-populated templates built into its management portal. Users also have the option of uploa...

A flash-in-the pan, or a truly spellbinding new way to share video? Vine is a free Twitter product that is designed to let you share short video, and its popularity is escalating fast. Vine's social video clips are limited to six seconds. They loop. The idea is to be as comedic or creative as possible within the limitations of the medium, and many ...

Kobo on Monday introduced the Aura HD, an e-reader that sports some high-end touches such as a one-month-plus battery life. Other features that set the Aura HD device apart from other e-readers in the market include a high- resolution E Ink display and a 6.8-inch screen designed to look and feel more like a book. The Aura HD, which retails for US$...

The number, size and impact of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased sharply in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report from Prolexic The average attack bandwidth in this period was 48.25 Gbps, 718 percent more than the 5.9 Gbps chalked up by attacks in the previous quarter. The average packet-per-second rate hit ...

A group of senators known as the "Gang of Eight" on Tuesday introduced a bipartisan immigration bill that could permit an increase in H-1B visas for high-tech workers. The group is led by Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz. Another notable member is Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the GOP's latest rising star. This legislation is the ...

American Airlines created a nightmare for its customers for at least two hours Tuesday. Its electronic reservation system wentdown in the middle of the afternoon, forcing the carrier to hold allflights until after 4:30 p.m. ET. The incident may have exposed a rift between AA and Sabre, the company managing its computerized reservations system, which used to be part of the airline...

Intel released a quarterly earnings report Tuesday that fell slightlyshort of already low expectations, thanks to weak worldwide PC sales.The world's largest computer chip manufacturer reported first quarterrevenue of $12.6 billion, a 2 percent drop from the same time a yearago. Net income was $2 billion, or about 40 cents per share,compared with $2.7 billion, or 53 cents per share ayear earlier...

HP will be incorporating Leap Motion's motion control technology into some of its upcoming products, both companies confirmed Tuesday Select PCs from HP bundled with Leap Motion's technology will be available this summer, HPspokesperson Cherie Britt told TechNewsWorld. Devices with the Leap Motion Controller technology embedded in them will come la...

Taiwan authorities have launched a probe into charges that Samsung hired students to post disparaging comments about HTC online If the false advertising accusations are upheld, Samsung and its local advertising agent could be on the hook for Tw$25 million, or about US$835,000....

The U.S. Department of the Interior has big plans to implement a major cloud-based information technology program, with a potential investment of US$1 billion over 10 years. However, those plans will have to be put on hold a little longer. One of the potential contractors for the project, CenturyLink, is taking the department to federal court in a...

About ten years ago, I wrote a paper that predicted that analytics and social media would converge in CRM. I believed that for two reasons. First, I believed social media was inevitable, though I had no idea what form it would take. Facebook was not on my radar and had not officially launched, MySpace was something for kids, and Twitter had defini...

Knoppix is a lightweight Linux distro that is anything but light in its features and functions. It equals or exceeds the performance of all the desktop varieties I run in Ubuntu and Linux Mint. It also could easily replace the portability on a stick I get with Puppy Linux....

It's mid-April, and spring is in the air -- that time of year when a young man's or young lady's thoughts turn to money. Conveniently for us all, the Web browser is a fine place to organize finances, whether you want to get the process over with as fast as possible, or enjoy it in king-is-in-the-counting-house mode. Google's Chrome Web browser is ...

Google on Tuesday released the tech specifications for Google Glass, which will sport 720p resolution for the eyeware's video camera and 16 GB of onboard flash storage. The forthcoming availability of the Web-connected glasses, however, is also raising questions about health, safety and privacy The tech specs include the ability to capture 5 MP sti...

Following Monday's tragic terror attack at the Boston Marathon, it was reported that cellular phone service was intentionally shut off to prevent any possible activation of other explosive devices remotely via mobile phones. As details emerged, it became clear that no shutdown was actually ordered. Although heavy usage did overload cellular system...

Electronic Arts will shut down three of its less popular games on Facebook, citing waning interest in some of the company's social network offerings Starting June 14, The Sims Social, SimCity Social and Pet Society will not be available to Facebook users. It was a difficult decision to kill the games, EA said, but user interest had plunged despite ...

Dish Network set up a battle with SoftBank for ownership of Sprint after it bid US$25.5 billion for the company on Monday The bid consists of $17.3 billion in cash and $8.2 billion in stock. That works out to a combined premium of 13 percent over what SoftBank is offering....

Kana Software on Tuesday debuted its next generation of Kana Enterprise, a multichannel customer service application with functionality for both the agent-based desktop and self-service. ...

Google has engaged the Behavio team in a "hiring exercise." [*Correction - April 17, 2013] The startup uses mobile sensors to collect data and predict behavior. Its technology recognizes data such as location, contacts, nearby destinations, recent phone activity, daily movement, and even surrounding physical information such as temperature or light...

An attack of unprecedented proportions has been hitting sites using WordPress, a free and open source blogging tool and content management system that powers more than 60 million websites worldwide. Attacks have been launched from more than 90,000 IP addresses, according to HostGator.