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Bug hunter criticizes Microsoft's "great hostility" to outside security researchers, releases proof-of-concept exploit for unpatched zero-day Windows vulnerability,

Sweeping changes are in store for Apple's smartphone operating system.

Facebook asks European partners to stall planned launch of HTC First smartphone as it scurries to revamp Facebook Home.

SuccessFactors founder and CEO resigns from SAP Executive Board and will leave the company June 1.

U.S. CIO VanRoekel says future for government is one where mobile is the default computing platform; highlights accomplishments of Digital Government Strategy.

Joyent expands instance types to match Amazon's in size and price, adds "reserved" instances to better compete.

Windows 8 has been a particularly big flop on the desktop. Can a mouse designed to make the OS friendlier help?

Are your analytics efforts getting bogged down in all the data streaming in from social, apps, surveys and other channels? Here's how to get unstuck.

Google reduces per-gigabyte pricing for Cloud Datastore by 25%, reflecting falling cloud storage prices; read operations are cheaper, too.

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff takes the long view while Wall Street reacts to a lower-than-expected outlook.

Interplanetary weather app that integrates weather data from Mars and Earth is among the winners of the competition.

Defunct software company expands patent infringement suit to include Best Buy, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and Samsung.

Edubuntu update includes several new packages, including a touch-typing tutor and a mindmapping tool.

Hyperoptic plans to implement "fiber-to-the-home" broadband technology in more than 500,000 British households within 5 years.

Microsoft's cloud data centers get direct peering with Internet2, the high-speed network for education and research. This gives schools faster access to data.

Weakness in the data handling capacity of the U.K.'s equivalent to the IRS is leading to billions being lost to error or deception it can't afford, say MPs.

IT leaders, brace yourself for pain as you push for agility. Business needs are emerging so rapidly that tools don't exist to support them, said CIOs at MIT Sloan CIO Symposium.

New report says federal agencies can improve performance by implementing gaming, mobile and other technologies that speed up operations.

Hagel shoots down possibility of DOD adopting VA's Vista and sinks the joint iEHR. Epic Systems might win out.

Cloud, social and mobile technologies are poised to help governments deliver new levels of customer service to citizens, says former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra.

Wide variety of new hardware means HP is either adapting to consumer preferences -- or struggling to decide what will resonate.

Bipartisan report argues that businesses should be allowed to retrieve stolen intellectual property from attackers' networks.

Popular email app Mailbox competes directly with Gmail's own Gmail app for iOS.

Amazon cloud performance monitoring system goes a step further than competitors with specialized version that complies with federal security regulations.

Authentication measure comes in wake of Syrian Electronic Army account hacks, further security steps coming.