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Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype
It's well established that Apple's iPhone was in the works for a good 2 years before it became a household name at Macworld 2007, and interestingly enough, the idea to develop a phone in the first place was borne out of Apple's previous work on tablet prototypes in the early 2000s. Steve Jobs admitted as much to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher during an appearance at the 2010 All Things D conference.... Read More


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Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really
Some chucklehead working for Microsoft thought it would be funny to slip a thinly camouflaged sexist remark -- "big boobs" -- into software code that connects the Linux kernel to Microsoft's HyperV virtualization product. Read More

9 itsy-bitsy, teeny-weenie computers
There's a "tiny" revolution unfolding in the personal computer industry led by the Raspberry Pi, which has become so popular that it's difficult to buy one right now. The idea of small computers is being driven by hardware hackers and hobbyists. Here are eight products, and a project in development, that are leading the effort to make PCs small enough to slip into your pocket. Read More

15 amazing tech feats and world records
Not to be outdone by athletes at this summer's Olympic games, techies have been setting some world records of their own of late. Read More


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IT groups petition Apple to "fix" Bonjour protocol
Apple's Bonjour and AirPlay technologies make networking with peripherals a snap for individual consumers but it poses an array of challenges on enterprise networks. Enough is enough, say a group of higher ed IT managers, who say Apple needs to make some changes. Read More

Victim of half-million-dollar cybercrime tells tale of fighting back
It started out as an ordinary workday for Michelle Marsico, who runs a business based in Redondo Breach, Calif., handling escrow funds for clients in real estate. But when she went online to check the funds-transfer activity in her commercial bank account, she found to her horror that it had been cleaned out by cybercrooks to the tune of almost half a million dollars. Read More

Cloud platform comparison: CloudStack, Eucalyptus, vCloud Director and OpenStack
Cloud computing remains one of the hottest topics in IT today given the promise of greatly improved efficiencies, significant cost savings, scalable infrastructure and high performance and secured data storage. Read More


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Hey Sprint LTE phone owners: Carrier now has a 4G network for some of you
Sprint, which has been building up its LTE smartphone lineup this year, Monday finally turned on a 4G LTE network in 15 cities to support those devices. Read More

Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social and cloud
To hear Oracle President Mark Hurd tell it, the $37.1 billion hardware and software company is well ahead of competitors on any number of fronts, from transitioning customers to SaaS and the cloud, to incorporating social technology into its products. Exuding supreme confidence in Oracle's emerging cloud services, hardware/software combos such as exabyte storage and its latest buyouts, Hurd said in a recent interview with IDG Enterprise that the main thing keeping him awake at night is "customers making decisions and we're not there. We've got to make sure we're there." Read More

Microsoft raises the bar with SQL Server 2012
While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft's database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements. Read More



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9 itsy-bitsy, teeny-weenie computers
Here are eight products, and a project in development, that are leading the effort to make PCs small enough to slip into your pocket.

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MOST-READ STORIES

  1. Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really
  2. Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec'
  3. Earliest known photos of an Apple iPad prototype
  4. EFF: Americans may not realize it, but many are in a face recognition database now
  5. Color photos of Apple's 035 iPad mockup emerge
  6. Android news and rumor roundup (week ending July 20)
  7. Teenager dies after 40-hour video game binge
  8. Microsoft has become everything it 'despised,' insiders tell Vanity Fair
  9. IT groups petition Apple to 'fix' Bonjour protocol
  10. Five years ago they said the iPhone would be a flop ... Now?

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