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Judge ignores leniency plea, hands AT&T hacker a 41-month-sentence

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Rackspace program looks to 'seed' cloud workforce

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Judge ignores leniency plea, hands AT&T hacker a 41-month-sentence

A federal judge today sentenced hacker Andrew Auernheimer's to 41 months in prison for illegally accessing email addresses and other data belonging to more than 120,000 iPad subscribers from AT&T's networks.

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2. Rackspace program looks to 'seed' cloud workforce

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4. Bomgar CEO talks mobility, cloud risks and old cars

5. Funny or Die to beat other Steve Jobs biopics to the punch with "iSteve"

6. Seems Google really can't wait to get rid of Reader

7. Cisco aims software improvements at enterprise video communications

8. Citrix adds editing capabilities to ShareFile, updates Podio mobile apps

9. Mozilla gamifies the learning process

10. Is Converged Infrastructure the Future of the Data Center?

11. Surprised this penguin is settling for an iPad, not holding out for a Linux tablet

12. Internet of Things driving Cisco outside IT team to capture sales

13. BlackBerry band is back to sing praises of the Z10 coming to the U.S.

14. Piracy doesn't hurt online music sales, according to EU study

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Funny or Die to beat other Steve Jobs biopics to the punch with "iSteve"

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Cisco aims software improvements at enterprise video communications

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Internet of Things driving Cisco outside IT team to capture sales

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BlackBerry band is back to sing praises of the Z10 coming to the U.S.

The smartphone business has increasingly become all about the song and dance. Samsung last week tortured viewers of its Galaxy S4 announcement with a seemingly never-ending musical number at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Now BlackBerry returns with its purposely cheesy (we think) band to triumph the BlackBerry Z10's arrival in the United States. READ MORE

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