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US officials: Surveillance programs helped stop 50 terrorist plots
U.S. law enforcement agencies have disrupted more than 50 terrorist plots in the U.S. and other countries with the help of controversial surveillance efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency, government officials said Tuesday.
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UK smart grid mass rollout moves a step closer
The UK today took another major step towards the full scale nation-wide rollout of smart meters, as bidders submitted their proposals to provide a communications infrastructure for tens of millions of homes.
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AMD reboots server strategy with first ARM chips
Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and more powerful than its existing low-power x86 server processors.
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Open Data Center Alliance tackles big data analysis
The Open Data Center Alliance, a customer group that shares tips about cloud deployments and tries to nudge vendors into supplying the products they want, has added big data to the list of IT topics it covers.
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Apple's Eddy Cue offers short answers in e-book antitrust trial
Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked together to illegally set the prices of electronic books for the market.
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Smartphone chips to power prototype supercomputer
Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers.
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Yandex steps up to Google with interactive snippets in search results
Google is the undisputed king of search in most Western countries but, in Russia, home-grown Yandex still claims a 60 percent market share.
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Texas Instruments, Qualcomm to power small cells for enterprises
Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are working on products that will power small mobile base stations, also known as small cells, and help improve indoor coverage and speeds for enterprises.
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To-do software goes from ugly duckling to white swan
Long considered old-school tools with no place in shiny corporate social collaboration suites, to-do software is making a comeback with a new air of cool about it and renewed appreciation from enterprise IT.
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Asus, other PC makers announce laptops, desktops with Intel Haswell chips
PCs that are cooler, smaller and faster were announced by computer makers Sunday in advance of Computex, with the new machines featuring Intel's speedier fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell.
