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Vice President Joe Biden, the administration's point person on the recovery act, explains the government's role in providing "seed money" to jumpstart the next great wave of high-tech boom.

Enterprises could benefit from extending the types of identity and access controls they use in their data centers to workloads in the cloud, Novell says.

Though a workaround is making its debut just this week, a researcher says he warned Microsoft about the problem a year ago.

A deluge of new netbooks are hitting the market, boasting more powerful dual-core CPUs similar to the same processors in larger PCs.

Company claims more than 300,000 downloads of the new Windows Phone 7 SDK. Is it a sign that Microsoft's poised for a strong launch?

AFCOM, the 30-year-old data center association, offers its take on the cloud to help members assess and take advantage of the trend.

The rumor mill has gone into full churn over the prospect of a third beta release to Apple's iOS 4.x mobile operating system, with version 4.1 reportedly on the fast track.

The CodePlex Foundation describes the role it can play in nurturing open source projects, and its relationship with the proprietary software giant.

Dozens of mission-critical IT projects are slated for overhauls to cut costs and get them back on track.

Responding to early criticism about the privacy settings of its new location-based service Places, Facebook takes pains to point out the various ways that people can control their information.

Despite a deal inked between Dell and 3PAR last week, HP wants 3PAR's virtualized multitenant storage arrays enough that it is willing to pay a 33.3 percent premium over Dell.

Speaking on the computing giant's quarterly earnings call, executives detailed plans to bring a Windows 7 tablet to market later this year, and a device powered by the Palm webOS in 2011.

With rumors mounting and new pictures surfacing, all signs point to a coming release from Microsoft of a bendable mouse, introducing a dramatic new form factor to an old device.

Firm bets its solution for collecting WAN log file data is headed for standardization. Not everyone agrees, however.

With growth in mobile and servers, respectively, AMD and Intel saw expansion in two different areas key to their business.

Industry experts see a diversification play as the smart move in a quickly shifting IT landscape.

With the long-awaited release of Ruby 1.9.2, billed as the first "production-ready 1.9 implementation," the Ruby project takes a big step forward.

IT trailed one other industry in a survey by CareerBuilder of employers using social media.

Coalition of the leading trade groups representing the music industry prevails on Google to factor in copyright protections in its proposal for net neutrality rules.

Handset giant Nokia has entered into an agreement to purchase Motally, a small, two-year-old startup based in San Francisco that specializes in analytics services for mobile applications.