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BlackBerry Z10 Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts
The first BlackBerry 10 smartphone, the BlackBerry Z10, is currently available in select markets across the globe, and it's expected to be released in most of the major mobile markets, including the United States, by the end of March. Read More

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The Red Report: Managing Both Your Data and Your Sanity
Leverage proven storage expertise to objectively assess your environment and review your options for unified storage, data deduplication, storage tiering and unified storage management to achieve lower costs, higher storage utilization and cloud readiness. Learn More.

Etsy gets geeky: Techiest homemade arts & crafts
Homemade Xbox soap, Linux diaper cake & more Read More

VCE CEO says EMC, Cisco, VMware partnership unshaken by NetApp incursion
VCE said its partnership with Cisco has been unaffected by Cisco's strengthening a reseller agreement with NetApp to sell cloud architectures. Read More

Earth-size, habitable zone planets may be closer than you think
Distances in space are usually impossibly large and hard to get a handle on but this week astronomers said as many as six percent of stars known as Red Dwarfs have planets around them in the habitable zone and may only be 13 light years away from Earth. Read More

A case to abolish Patents
Two distinguished professors who also happen to be research fellows at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis have published a paper which lays bare the truth behind many of the traditional reasons why we need patents. Particularly in the tech sector, patents, patent lawsuits and patent trolls have become an ever bigger story, but an even bigger pain in the rear. Does anyone really think Samsung should... Read More

Can closed source software transition to the GPL successfully?
Commercial software going Open Source doesn't happen very often. In fact...I have a hard time thinking of good, successful examples off the top of my head. That's how rarely it happens. Occasionally, someone makes a go of it, to take a good piece of closed source software and release the source code under a nice, open license. In fact, I did just that about a year ago. I tried to take a software development... Read More

Interview with Microsoft's Director of Trustworthy Computing Jacqueline Beauchere
Today is Safer Internet Day and Microsoft released the results of its second annual Computing Safety Index (MCSI), a survey of consumer online safety behaviors of more than 10,000 PC, smartphone, and tablet users in 20 countries. The MCSI measures 22 individual protective behaviors. Read More

Microsoft's online safety assessment scores show failing grades globally
On your PC, you know to keep your firewall on at all times, to keep your antivirus and antispyware software updated and to run them, and to keep automatic updates on. On your mobile device, these basics are similar such as running a mobile anti-virus, installing software updates immediately upon release, and using a PIN or password to lock your device. These are foundational basics and may seem like... Read More

Which Linux distro is best? Survey says: Slackware
One of the biggest ongoing challenges for Linux advocates has always been that there is such a paucity of data available to demonstrate the preferences of the people who are actually using the free and open source operating system. Read More

9th grader signs $200 contract to let dad kill her Facebook account
A Wellesley, Mass., dad has agreed to pay his 14-year-old daughter $200 if she ditches her Facebook account, in an effort to extract her from "the 24/7 comparison of experiences and clothes" with other girls online. The Facebook Deactivation Agreement was his freshman daughter's idea, according to Paul Baier, who adds that he hopes the notion will start a trend among others at the school. Read More

Microsoft Surface Pro: First Look
The Microsoft-made ultrabook for Windows 8 Read More

iPhoneys: The iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S edition
Can't wait for the next Apple iPhone, whatever it's called? Neither can these designers, marketers and iPhone addicts Read More

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