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Target CIO Beth Jacob resigns following data breach

Target Corp.’s Chief Information Officer Beth Jacob is resigning, effective immediately, in wake of the massive data breach during the holiday 2013 shopping season which saw as many as 70 million customers having their...

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RadioShack is closing down approximately 1,100 “underperforming” stores

RadioShack, the struggling electronics retailer, on Tuesday said it might close 1,100 stores — about a fifth of all its outlets — after it reported its eighth straight quarterly loss. The...

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Samsung announces two new Chromebook 2 laptops

According to market researcher NPD, Samsung is by far the most successful seller of computers based on Google’s Chromebook platform in the US, with 60 percent of the market in 2013. But...

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Microsoft finally passes up Amazon as the largest Windows hosting company

Microsoft has surpassed Amazon to become the largest Windows hosting company, according to a report by Netcraft released on Wednesday. According to Netcraft, Microsoft and Amazon have been hovering around the...

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Salesforce.com CFO will be retiring around this time next year

Cloud software company Salesforce.com just announced quarterly earnings results that were slightly better than what analysts had estimated, and the company announced that CFO Graham Smith will retire next year. The...

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IBM will soon be offering on-demand high-performance computing

In yet another announcement of a new cloud infrastructure service this week, IBM unveiled a hybrid-cloud solution for workloads that require high-performance hardware. The company will essentially set up a dedicated...

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OpenID Connect launches with backing from Google, Microsoft, AOL, and more

Signing users in to a mobile or web app isn’t necessarily hard, but keeping their credentials safe is something that’s often best left to specialists. The OpenID Foundation announced the launch of OpenID...

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Samsung unveils Knox 2.0 security solution

Exactly a year to the day after it first announced its Knox security solution, Samsung's returned to Mobile World Congress with news that it's making it even easier to secure and manage Galaxy devices. With the...

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Samsung unveils the Galaxy S5

Samsung unveiled a Galaxy S5 smartphone with a fingerprint reader and bigger screen than the current model as Asia’s biggest technology company tries to keep high-end consumers from Apple's iPhone. The...

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Mozilla hopes to pave the way for Firefox OS-powered smartphones

In addition to announcing new Firefox OS devices from partners including ZTE and Alcatel OneTouch, Mozilla is introducing new reference designs for phones and tablets. The new Firefox OS Flame reference design is for...

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HP launches two new enterprise tablets, the ProPad 600 and the ElitePad 1000

In addition to the ProPad 600, HP has rolled out the red carpet for its 'total business solution' slate, the HP ElitePad 1000 G2. With the ElitePad 1000 comes a...

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Cyphort unveils its new Advanced Threat Defense Platform

When it comes to IT security, the single biggest issue has always been detection. Unfortunately, the scale and complexity of the attacks being launched today makes detecting when an application...

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