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AppSense Labs today released a new product aimed at making free-wheeling consumer cloud practices such as synching of mobile devices more acceptable at work. But while Dropbox is popular and DataLocker is welcome for encypting mobile data, the bigger question facing IT soon will be what to do about iCloud on Macs and SkyDrive on Windows 8.

The alleged accomplice of an accused cable-modem hacker testified in court on Wednesday that the suspect taught him how to pirate cable service using hacked firmware and cloned Mac addresses.

Looking at Hewlett-Packard?s financials, it?s easy to see see why the company around and sued Oracle last year after the database vendor decided to pull support for HP?s Itanium systems.

On Wednesday, OnLive unveiled a new version of OnLive Desktop -- a iPad application that lets users access a virtual Windows desktop and Windows applications housed on servers in the proverbial cloud -- and this new version includes a browser equipped with Adobe Flash. Famously, Apple doesn't allow the Flash player to run locally on the iPad, but OnLive is offering a way around the restriction.

The California Department of Justice issued a press release Wednesday detailing an agreement among leaders in the mobile space to strengthen user privacy and transparency policies for mobile apps. Apple, Google, HP, Amazon, Microsoft and RIM signed the agreement.

The sensational result that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light may be undone by nothing more than a simple mechanical error.

The "signature wounds" of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury -- are both rooted in traumatic events. Until recently, though, military docs mostly treated them as two different health problems: one physical, the other psychological. That approach might be poised to change, thanks to a new study, which shows that injuries to a specific part of the brain "primed" it for PTSD's psychological ailments.

The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans? communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.

Apple has confirmed that it will build a data center in Prineville, Oregon -- next door to the massive computing facility Facebook opened last year -- and according to the Prineville city engineer, Apple is planning to build a facility that's "similar" to Facebook's energy-conscious creation, making use of designs the social giant "open sourced" to the rest of the world.

In civilian life, the iPad is the clear tablet leader. But in the military, the Pentagon likes its Android devices, and has shunned Apple products. But that may be about to change, as an Air Force office buys 18,000 (mostly) iPads, giving Cupertino a new chance to win the military's OS and tablet wars.

A robotic fish has sailed across an aquatic uncanny valley by tricking real fish into following it upstream.

Just like a camera, the best store is the one you have with you. And most of us carry our smartphones with us everywhere we go and buy things all day long.

Even geeks who got picked last in gynm class are caught up in the story of Jeremy Lin, the unlikely NBA star who seems to come from nowhere. Sure, performing well in the country?s media capital on what had been a losing team helps. And of course, an easily pun-able surname helps spread the word. But none of these explain why I ? and many of my fellow geeks ? love him so damn much. Here's why ?Lin is a validation of our worldview: Ignore expectation, follow the data.

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The Sony PlayStation Vita officially launches today, bringing with it over two dozen games and a host of promises. Without a new version of the PlayStation console announced, Sony is clearly counting on the PS Vita to restore some of the prestige lost in the gaming world with the troubles dogging their PlayStation Network.

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