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China has urged Qualcomm to start making money with local partners

China's top Internet regulator publicly challenged the president of Qualcomm saying half the company's revenue comes from China and that "we should make money together." The comments Wednesday from Lu...

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IBM’s SoftLayer cloud services are now more secure thanks to Intel

IBM is baking more security into its hybrid cloud pony SoftLayer thanks to a new deal with Intel. Announced just one day ahead of the annual Intel Developer Forum, SoftLayer...

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Microsoft accidentally teases Windows 9 in China

Windows 9 got some press early Tuesday from Microsoft itself, although it wasn't exactly intentional. In a posting on Chinese site Weibo, Microsoft China posed the question: "Microsoft's latest OS...

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LG is reportedly leaving the plasma TV business

On the B-side of LG's announcement that it will start selling two 4K OLED TVs, is the bad news for plasma. Korean papers Yonhap News and The Korea Times report...

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Microsoft has republished a pulled Windows update

Microsoft has decided to introduce, or should we say, reintroduce a patch that was removed earlier this month after that installation of that patch resulted in boot failures. Needless to...

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Salesforce.com is expanding its Communities product

Salesforce.com is “doubling down on communities” in the age of connected everything. The company announced today it is expanding its Communities product into a full-fledged Community Cloud. The vision: responsive...

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A new app security flaw makes your iPhone call numbers without asking

If you're an iPhone user, you may want to be cautious about opening messages that contain phone numbers in the near future; they may cost you a lot of money....

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Microsoft is looking to take on Google’s Chromecast streaming dongle

Look who is building a streaming dongle now: Microsoft is getting ready to launch its very own Chromecast competitor, according documents filed with the FCC that were unearthed this week....

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Yahoo Mail will receive end-to-end encryption by 2015

Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos told Black Hat attendees last week that the company would be rolling out end-to-end encryption for email some time in 2015. The search...

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The FCC is pushing for all mobile providers to provide free 911 texting

In May, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it wanted to see its text-to-911 service rolled out across all network carriers in the United States. Now the process has moved...

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IBM has boosted its security offering with the acquisition of CrossIdeas

IBM, already the third biggest security vendor by revenue behind Symantec and Intel-owned McAfee, is looking to do even better with the acquisition of Italian security company CrossIdeas. Details of...

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Dell has stopped selling Chromebooks citing popular demand

Chromebooks are popular, and if you doubt that, just ask Dell. The computer manufacturer has halted sales of their 11-inch Chromebook, all because demand was too high. Still available for...

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