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Yahoo buying developer of Donna personal assistant app
The Donna service will be shut down after the transaction
Obama selects cryptologist to head US NSA
Vice Admiral Michael S. Rogers will take over amid demands for reform of the NSA
Researchers create Android app to show when other apps track you
The app shows users when other apps are accessing their location
Video service Blinkx contests Harvard professor's analysis
Ben Edelman, who studies deceptive Web advertising, contends Blinkx misleads users and cheats advertisers
Zynga to buy 'Clumsy Ninja' developer for $527 million, cut 314 jobs
The company says it's shooting for more hit games and greater efficiency.
Yahoo acknowledges Yahoo Mail hack
Yahoo acknowledges that hackers attacked a third-party database and collected an undlsclosed number of passwords and usernames.
Report: Satya Nadella to be named Microsoft CEO; Gates out, too
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft's board will name cloud chief Satya Nadella Microsoft's next chief executive.
SDN thinking lags behind technology, VMware's Casado says
Most enterprises need help moving beyond traditional networks, the SDN pioneer said
Google sales rise despite Motorola slip
The company also had mixed results in its ads business
Startup Altiscale offers Hadoop hosted service
Yahoo Hadoop veterans band together to offer an Hadoop-as-a-service
Tor-enabled malware stole credit card data from PoS systems at dozens of retailers
Details of over 50,000 credit and debit cards have been stolen from 119 PoS terminals infected with a malware program called ChewBacca
Dark Souls II preview: I died 8 times in an hour and loved it
The sequel to the legendarily tough Dark Souls is just as difficult and just as fun—but not QUITE as dark.
FCC moves toward IP transition of phone networks
The commission approves trial runs for converting copper networks to IP
Once skyrocketing tablet sales growth sees a slowdown
Market-research firm IDC says that tablet shipments grew 28.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013. That's a far cry from the 75.3 percent growth in sales during the 2012 fourth quarter.
Ex-network engineer faces prison after admitting he sabotaged employer's system
Ricky Joe Mitchell deleted EnerVest's phone accounts and backup data after learning he was about to be fired
