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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison insisted on Wednesday that recently appointed HP CEO Leo Apotheker knew of the theft of Oracle's software while he was CEO of SAP ...

Part One of this series discussed the push toward IPv6 ...

The Obama administration has recently turned up the heat on moving to IPv6, the next version of the Internet protocol after the one currently in use, IPv4. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra issued a memo Sept. 28 instructing CIOs of executive departments and agencies in the federal government to take several actions, including enabling the use of native IPv6, by the end of 2012...

Freelance software developer Eric Butler has released Firesheep, a plug-in to the Firefox Web browser that lets anyone capture cookies from an open WiFi network and possibly steal their owners' identities ...

A huge gingerbread man has been put up on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif., suggesting that Gingerbread, the next release of Android, may be released soon. ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance, a consortium of companies making WiFi products, has unveiled a new protocol, Wi-Fi Direct ...

Barnes & Noble may soon announce a full-color version of its Nook e-reader, acording to a Cnet report ...

HP on Friday launched the HP Slate 500, a tablet PC aimed at the enterprise ...

Since the latter days of the 20th Century, business and political leaders have moved between each others' fields with increasing ease. Vice President Dick Cheney was one; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is another ...

The first reviews of Windows Phone 7 smartphones -- the Samsung Focus and the HTC HD7 -- are in, and they range from lukewarm at the low end (nice, but not enough pizzazz) to acceptable (much improved but not enough features) ...

Biometric security -- which employs systems that read people's fingerprints or compare their voiceprint or retina scans to information in data banks in order to authenticate them -- is being heavily used in some of the United States' most critical installations ...

HP on Tuesday announced the Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0, the next version of the mobile operating system that debuted with the original Palm Pre in 2009 ...

Belgian open source application vendor OpenERP has set up its first overseas business office in San Jose, Calif. Traditionally, the company has worked with reseller partners in the United States and 54 other countries worldwide ...

Google has added new cloud capabilities to its rack-mounted Google Search Appliance ...

Computer programmer and author John Graham-Cumming is trying to raise at least Pounds 500,000 (US$800,000) to build a working version of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine ...

A researcher in a robotics lab in Slovenia has reportedly been using humans as punching bags to find out the limits on how hard and fast a robot can move if it collides with people ...

Facebook and Bing have teamed up in a move that could bring a touch more sociability to online search ...

Intel plans to pull out all the stops to conquer the tablet PC market, CEO Paul Otellini announced this week ...

Facebook has unveiled new measures to keep members secure when they log into its site ...

Competition in the keenly contested smartphone market is driving massive change in user interfaces (UIs). Mice and keyboards are so yesterday; touch, multitouch and gestures form the core of UIs today ...