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  1. 10 ways to make Android better than the iPhone
    These tweaks and apps will let your Android smartphone outshine your friends' iPhones
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  2. GitHub embraces Windows developers

    Looking to make its GitHub social coding and coding-hosting site easier to use for Windows application builders, GitHub beginning on Monday will offer a native graphical Windows client for developers and designers.

  3. The 7 words you can't say on iTunes

    Tonight there's gonna be trouble I'm gonna find myself in/Tonight there's gonna be a j*****k, so woman stay with a friend.

    If you're a Thin Lizzy fan, you probably recognize the lyrics to "Jailbreak," but you probably don't remember the song title featuring mostly asterisks. For a few hours last week on iTunes, however, that's how the word appeared to some people visiting the store.

  4. Linux 3.4 gets quick release

    Just over two months after its last major release, Linus Torvalds has posted the newest version of the open source Linux kernel, which supports new graphics processors from Nvidia and Intel, improves file system functionality and comes with a new security module.

    Torvalds, who oversees input from thousands of programmers, commented on how smoothly work on this release proceeded.

  5. Is cloud-based security really cheaper?

    Businesses in new study were five times more likely to have decreased spending on managing security over three years.

  6. Oracle ups the server virtualization ante with Oracle VM 3.1

    If VMware has become synonymous with server virtualization, and Microsoft continues to make inroads with its Hyper-V platform within the SMB market, and Citrix can gain traction for XenServer by leveraging its large XenApp fan base -- where does that leave Oracle and its server virtualization platform, Oracle VM?

  7. E.U. gives Google chance to avoid fines over antitrust concerns

    Google has "a matter of weeks" to address four antitrust issues identified by European Union antitrust regulators. If Google addresses these issues the case can be solved by a so-called "commitment decision" instead of formal antitrust proceedings resulting in a fine, said Joaquín Almunia, vice president of the European Commission responsible for competition policy.

  8. The look ahead to a software-controlled world

    The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up.

  9. Yahoo's Genome joins hosted big data analytics trend

    Yahoo has joined a growing list of companies offering big data analytics as a service with its Genome offering this week.

    Genome is a service designed to let companies deliver highly targeted online advertising and marketing campaigns. It will let advertisers quickly sift through and analyze terabytes of real-time Web data collected from Yahoo's own networks and from those of partners such as Yahoo and AOL.

  10. Microsoft's social networking site So.cl now open to all users

    So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all users interested in joining the site.

    The social networking site, pronounced "social," is however not positioned to replace existing full-featured search and social networking tools, and uses a minimal set of features, Microsoft said on the So.cl website.

  11. Apple seeks to block Galaxy Tab 10.1 with preliminary injunction

    In the latest move in a complex series of patent-related cases, Apple filed a motion in a U.S. district court late Friday to ban Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the U.S.

    The Apple filing came in the wake of an appeals court ruling earlier in the week that sided with Apple on the validity of an iPad design patent. Meanwhile, Apple and Samsung are scheduled to go into court-mandated settlement negotiations, set for May 21 and May 22, so the injunction is not likely to be granted over the next few days.

  12. Windows 8's new UI: A return to Flatland
    Windows 8 new, flat user interface

    Buried in an 11,000-word tome on the Building Windows 8 blog, user experience honcho Jensen Harris explains that the legacy desktop in Windows 8 w

  13. Top 7 dilemmas facing today's developers

    Your boss wants it yesterday, but it better be good when judged by the standards of tomorrow. Your customers want every feature they can imagine, but don't you dare confuse them by giving them all the buttons they want. Your fellow programmers want your code documented, but they just respond "tl;dr" to anything you write.

  14. A new dawn for cloud computing

    The knock on Amazon Web Services and other IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers is that they're not reliable enough for enterprise-class workloads. And even with recent price drops, it's cheaper over the long haul to buy and run your own infrastructure.

  15. What enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games

    Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games.

  16. Microsoft's Visual Studio 11 lineup adds Windows Phone, Azure tools

    Microsoft on Friday shared final product lineup and specifications expected for its upcoming Visual Studio 11 IDE, featuring accommodations for the Windows Phone mobile OS and Windows Azure cloud platform.

  17. The two sides of an IT admin: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    I'm not sure many other occupations can go from normal to obscene as rapidly and thoroughly as IT. There's something to be said for having a job that presents new challenges and situations on a constant basis, but let's be honest, when the fit hits the shan in IT, it's generally an epic event.

  18. iSCSI storage networking: What you need to know

    Over the past two weeks, I've written about some of the commonly overlooked aspects of building a bulletproof IP storage network and how to best use that network with NFS. This week, I'll show you the ins and outs of configuring iSCSI for performance and redundancy, as well as how it compares with NFS.

  19. 12 cool, creative, and just plain weird gadget concepts
    Take a gander at a dozen delightful concept designs for tomorrow's smartphones, laptops, gaming devices and more
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  20. The world's hottest social network isn't Facebook

    Every time you hear a cellphone ring today it means another 20-something Facebook millionaire is being born. As I write this post, Facebook's newly printed shares are trading at $41.50, or nearly 10 percent above the opening price. Thanks to its $100 billion+ IPO, it's been all Facebook, all the time across much of the Webosphere this week.