"Microsoft hacked by same cyberattack as Apple and Facebook: Microsoft has revealed it is the latest high-profile internet company to have its computer system hacked."
Telegraph 6:53 AM
"Microsoft hit by similar hack to Apple, Facebook"
Reuters 7:00 AM
"Microsoft Is the Latest Victim in Watering Hole Attack"
Softpedia 7:04 AM
"Microsoft targeted by computer hackers: Firm says no customer data stolen as it joins Facebook and Apple on list of recent US corporate victims of cyberattacks."
Aljazeera 6:52 AM
"Hack On Microsoft Similar To Attacks On Apple, Facebook"
redOrbit 7:20 AM
"Best Buy to cut Windows 8 touchscreen PC prices by $100/Best Buy is kicking off a limited time, $100 promotional discount for Windows 8 touchscreen laptops and desktops, starting this Sunday."
ZDNet 6:54 AM
"Microsoft's Azure service hit by expired SSL certificate: The company also Reported service problems with Xbox Music and Video Store services"
Computerworld 7:21 AM
"Rumor: Microsoft Revealing Xbox Infinity (720) in April"
Tom's Hardware 9:02 PM
"Dell's Intentions Get a Hard Look"
New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 5:24 PM
"Can mutual-fund managers block the Dell deal?"
MarketWatch 7:16 AM
"More Proof That Dell CEO's Bid Is Too Low: Latest results show the personal-computer company remains highly profitable and generates strong cash flow. And a private-prison company, which is becoming a real-estate investment trust, gains new contracts. A $50 stock?"
Barron's 7:16 AM
"Hewlett Packard Asks China Suppliers To Limit Student Labor"
Jags Report 8:58 PM
"Hewlett-Packard rises to lead tech rally"
MarketWatch 7:17 AM
"Intel's Still One of the Cheapest Stocks on the Market"
Forbes 9:00 PM
"IBM, Deutsche Telekom Team on Smarter Cities Effort"
eWeek 9:00 PM
"Oracle CEO Ellison's daughter pans for Oscar gold"
Asia One 7:20 AM
"H-P Shares Rally 8% on Upbeat Guidance"
FOXBusiness 2/22
"HP's first 'Project Moonshot' server due next quarter: HP claims the server consumes up to 89 percent less energy than a traditional x86 server"
IDG News Service 2/22
"HP's challenge: Sticking with its Project Moonshot fueled R&D plan"
ZDNet 2/22
"In Dell's Waning Cash Flows, Signs of Concern"
New York Times 2/22
"Dell to sue Philips, alleges cathode-ray tube price fixing"
ZDNet 2/22
"Google requests more time to respond to Oracle's appeal brief and in-depth amicus curiae briefs"
Foss Patents 2/22
"Jazzed-up Microsoft is cooler than before"
Reuters 2/22
"Is Microsoft Now a Cool Brand Thanks to the Surface?"
Minyanville 2/22
"Hipsters have spoken: Microsoft is 'hip to be square'"
The Register 2/22
"What Will Microsoft Learn from the Wii U and PS4?"
Forbes 2/22
"Microsoft suffers from same hacking attack as Apple, Facebook, small number of computers infected"
The Next Web 2/22
"Microsoft Joins Ranks of the Tragically Hacked"
PC Magazine 2/22
"Microsoft says small number of its computers hacked"
Reuters 2/22
"Microsoft Hacked, Just Like Facebook and Apple"
AllThingsD 2/22
"Add Microsoft to list of hacked companies"
CNET News 2/22
"Microsoft Joins Apple, Facebook as Target of Cyberattack"
Bloomberg 2/22
"Aussie hacker in international probe: An Australian hacker has found himself at the centre of an international corporate espionage investigation after leaking details of Microsoft's new Xbox and listing a prototype on eBay as a joke."
Sydney Morning Herald 2/22
"IBM MobileFirst aims to smooth enterprise path to mobility"
V3 2/22
"IBM plugs big data capabilities into Deutsche Telekom's M2M infrastructure for smarter cities"
GigaOM 2/22
"Intel acquires appMobi for HTML5 developer tools: The Pennsylvania company will continue to offer its cloud services to mobile app developers"
IDG News Service 2/22
"Gaming Will Revitalize Advanced Micro Devices"
Seeking Alpha 2/22
"Cisco wins big in India as Chinese set-top box manufacturers surge, says ABI Research"
DigiTimes 2/22
"FCC Ruling Could Set Connected Cars and Wi-Fi on Collision Course"
Wired 2/22
"Cellphone unlocking petition hits 100,000 signatures: The US government will have to reconsider its decision to ban cellphone unlocking, after an online petition reached the necessary 100,000 signatures."
TG Daily 2/22
"What to expect at Mobile World Congress 2013"
PCWorld 2/22
"What to Expect at Mobile World Congress 2013: MWC 2013 is on its way, and sure to bring lots of exciting news about new phones and tablets alike. Here's what we think we might see."
PC Magazine 2/22
"Mobile World Congress: Will the Windows ecosystem be relevant in Barcelona?"
PCWorld 2/22
"Tablets Take Off In 2012 According To Millennial, With Kindle Fire And iPad Mini Seeing Rapid Growth"
TechCrunch 2/22
General Interest
"Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies: Cookies from sites you visit? Good. Everything else? Blocked by default."
Ars Technica 9:17 PM
"Galaxy Note 8.0 Hands On: The 8-Inch Tablet as an 8-Inch... Phone"
Gizmodo 9:08 PM
"Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 hands-on preview"
The Verge 9:09 PM
"Galaxy Note 8.0 Features Air View-Enhanced Flipboard App, Free Awesome Note For Android, And Other Content Perks"
TechCrunch 9:17 PM
"Don't Call Him Mom, or an Imbecile/At the Dad 2.0 Summit in Houston, brands like Dove, which served whiskey samples, sought ways to gain the fathers' business."
New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:03 PM
"Twitter flagging 500px links as 'potentially harmful'"
The Verge 4:53 PM
"No more working from home for Yahoo employees, says Report: 'We need to be one Yahoo,' reads a memo Reportedly sent to staff, so come June any existing work-from-home arrangements will be rendered null and void."
CNET News 2:38 PM
"Samsung Oscars ad to feature Tim Burton: Samsung is taking over the Oscars. It will will run six ads during the awards ceremony, including a veritable blockbuster starring director Tim Burton."
CNET News 2:39 PM
"Mobile World Congress 2013: 9 Hot Gadgets"
TechWeb News 12:20 PM
"AT&T, union reach tentative agreement on benefits"
Yahoo! News 10:45 AM
"Barcelona welcomes 'smartphones for the masses'"
BBC 8:11 AM
"Sony NSZ-GS7 update brings Google TV's newer voice search and YouTube perks"
Engadget 6:53 AM
"Wikipedia expects to offer SMS-based access within months"
Engadget 6:53 AM
"Hacktivists Prep For International Open Data Day"
InformationWeek 2/22
"Sony's PS4 future lies in the cloud"
CNNMoney 2/22
"New video games mirror debates about data privacy, hacking"
Washington Post 2/22
"No touch screen, no keyboard: enter Airwriting"
TG Daily 2/22
"Facebook engineers identify Graph Search's big data challenges"
IDG News Service 2/22
"Facebook to developer: Thanks for finding bug"
MarketWatch 2/22
"Facebook plugs hole that allowed account hijacking"
PCWorld 2/22
"Facebook to put old, rarely viewed photos into 'cold storage'"
NBC News 2/22
"Austrian research team develop a new flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet for capturing images"
DigiTimes 2/22
"Taiwan PC industry at a critical moment: An interview with Wistron chairman"
DigiTimes 2/22
"'Star Trek'-like tricorder available soon"
USA Today 2/22
"North Korea to offer mobile internet access"
BBC 2/22
"LivesOn: New Service to Let You Tweet When You're Dead"
ABCNews 2/22
"Twitter implements DMARC standard to fight phishing"
PCWorld 2/22
"Amid Hacking Headaches, Twitter Begins Using Email Authentication"
FOXBusiness 2/22
"Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest user information exposed in hack attack"
Los Angeles Times 2/22
"Zendesk Hack Hits Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr Users"
PC Magazine 2/22
"Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest Users Hit In Zendesk Breach"
InformationWeek 2/22
"Google buildings exposed to toxic vapors left by chipmakers"
CNET News 2/22
"Google adds fee-based support services for cloud platform customers: Users of products like App Engine, Compute Engine and Big Query will be able to purchase access to a variety of technical support services"
IDG News Service 2/22
"Chrome 25 Adds Voice Support, Devs Get App Launcher"
PC Magazine 2/22
"Windows 8/RT App Pick: Skype/The Metro version of Skype is evolving into a good blend of simplicity and functionality"
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows 12:00 PM
"Internet Explorer 11 spotted as part of Windows Blue"
The Verge 6:53 AM
"If You Think Microsoft Is Dying, You Need A Reality Check"
Seeking Alpha 2/22
"What Games Are: Consoles Are Sinking. Get To The Lifeboats!"
TechCrunch 6:17 PM
"A new high in $300 audiophile headphones: The Audiophiliac listens to the MrSpeakers Mad Dog headphones and comes away impressed."
CNET News 12:19 PM
"Let's talk PS4: will it take console gaming to the next level? The Ars OpenForum has some predictions about Sony's newly announced console."
Ars Technica 12:04 PM
"Why all that hacking news might not be so bad"
GigaOM 10:03 AM
"The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming!"
TechCrunch 8:38 AM
"Google's Chromebook Pixel Proves A Point"
Seeking Alpha 6:57 AM
"Offshoring to blame for IT skills gap: Ernst & Young"
Techworld 2/22
"Marissa Mayer's Morning Show Mess Up Backfired Bigger Than We Even Thought (YHOO)"
Seattle Post-Intelligencer 2/22
"Is it now crazy to offshore IT to China?"
Computerworld 2/22
"Even Sony isn't sure what PS4 will look like"
Mashable 2/22
"The Hottest Games Coming to Sony's PS4"
PC Magazine 2/22
"Review: HP brings sizzle to Windows Storage Server/The HP StoreEasy 5530 puts serious muscle behind Windows file serving, Hyper-V virtualization, and SQL Server workloads"
InfoWorld 2/22
"Why you should sign the phone-unlocking petition right now"
InfoWorld 2/22
"Hands-on with the Ubuntu Touch Linux smartphone"
InfoWorld 2/22
"Mobile World Congress 2013: What We Want"
InformationWeek 2/22
"Where Is The Digital Work Force Growing Fastest?"
Forbes 2/22
"Slideshow: Technologies that stood out at 60th ISSCC"
EE Times 2/22
"Get Real, Google. The Pixel Is Too Pricey"
PC Magazine 2/22
"Do you need a Chromebook Pixel in your life?"
The Independent 2/22
"Inside Google's ultrabook gambit: With a new laptop, Google is betting that living in the cloud on an ultrabook is not just cheaper, but much better."
Fortune 2/22
"Google Launches the Bugatti of Laptops"
TheStreet 2/22
"Metaio's augmented reality chip will be super-useful... just not in phones"
GigaOM 2/22
Acquisitions/Deals/Investments/Mergers
"The Real Top 15 Venture Capital Deals Of 2012"
TechCrunch 9:16 PM
"Emulex under second investor assault"
The Register 2/22
"Orange Acquired Dailymotion For $168 Million By Buying Out Remaining 51% Stake [Update: Orange Confirms]"
TechCrunch 2/22
"Dual-Screen YotaPhone Lands Manufacturing Partner in Singapore"
PC Magazine 2/22
"Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States"
"There Is an Algorithm for Everything, Even Bras"
"SimCity, for Real: Measuring an Untidy Metropolis"
"HTC Settles Privacy Case Over Flaws in Phones"
"Judge Sides With Einhorn and Halts an Apple Shareholder Vote"
"Online Gambling Heats Up"
"A Titan's How-To on Breaking the Glass Ceiling"
"A Front-Row Seat via Video" ...
Reuters
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"Einhorn scores legal victory versus Apple in cash scuffle"
TechWeb
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"Mobile World Congress 2013: 9 Hot Gadgets"
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