Viacom and Google will each tell the judge overseeing the $1 billion copyright suit that there's enough evidence to rule in their favor.

Monologist Mike Daisey will address the "rise and fall and rise" of Steve Jobs in a performance scheduled for next year at a repertory theater in Berkeley, Calif.

roundup Everyone who's got cybersecurity on the brain--politicians, Web giants, and security vendors alike--are descending on RSA this week.

Microsoft will have a relatively light Patch Tuesday next week, fixing eight holes with two bulletins, but a fix for a zero-day VBScript vulnerability is still pending.

In a highly visual, hands-on display at RSA, the security firm shows tools and methods used for cybercrime and identity fraud.

HTML5 standards continue to slowly proliferate throughout the major browsers. Google Chrome now supports the geolocation API, but it's not activated yet by default.

Opera Software further blurs the lines between Mini and Mobile with a release of a new browser beta for Windows phones.

RealNetworks loses lengthy RealDVD battle, TiVo gets closer to victory in its patent battle against EchoStar, and Google tries to make YouTube more accessible to hearing-impaired viewers.

A Korean child dies, allegedly of neglect, because her parents spent 12 hours a day playing a Second Life-type game in which they raised a virtual child. Should gaming be blamed?

We're going back to our traditional comment system for Deep Tech, but keeping a taste of Echo's social media flavor.

Researchers publish a paper on the emerging field of neuromarketing, through which advertisers can use brain science to better understand human urges.

For the third straight year, Apple takes top honors in survey published by Fortune. Google places second overall, with Amazon in the fifth spot.

Apple began removing apps capable of detecting Wi-Fi networks out of the App Store, with no explanation.

The new 6-core processor is designed to crunch through the most chip-taxing games out there.

YouTube is making its auto-captioning technology available to everyone in the hopes of making closed captions an option for all users.

Never mind three strikes and you're out. How about three strikes and I've got to ask myself if I even want to be in one of your hotels in the first place.

In describing ways that the Obama administration hopes to use IT to better serve the U.S. people, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra described some disturbing inefficiencies in the government today.

Gartner has raised its worldwide PC shipment forecast for this year, predicting growth of 20% compared to 2009, partly driven by growth in shipments of mobile devices like laptops and netbooks.

Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week's RSA Conference.

Like a fickle 12-year-old with a favorite pop band, the security industry has forgotten all about last year's fads and is focused on a new one: cloud computing.

The U.S. Rural Utilities Service announced $254.6 million in funding for 22 broadband deployment projects in 18 states across the U.S. as it works to wrap up a first round of broadband funding made available in an economic stimulus package passed by Congress early last year.

Maybe you know Apple fanboys, but can you tell an Oracle high flyer from a Salesforce.com disciple? Here's CIO's highly unofficial guide.

When Google introduced its Nexus One phone in January, it unveiled a whole new business model in the mobile phone market.

A Texas Senator has filed a bill that would allow NASA to continue its Constellation project to return humans to the moon despite the Obama administration's call to cancel it.

Apple's iPad could drive total tablet sales for the year as high as 10.5 million devices, a Gartner Research analyst said today.

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The Gulf Coast bank is replacing 50% of all technology, converting to Jack Henry core banking; IBM servers, middleware and reports; and Oracle/PeopleSoft financials.

Column about Cognizant senior VP Malcolm Frank's views of why CIOs have begun thinking about growth and transformation after many months of cost-cutting and a lack of innovation.

HealthPresence merges Cisco Telepresence and call center technology with digital diagnostic devices, allowing healthcare providers to assess and treat patients many miles away.

The National Coordinator for Health IT is ready to launch several new programs to get healthcare providers using technology.

Apple Asks Court To Ban Google Phones

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, is asking for help to engage the public in a discussion about cybersecurity.

The companies have created a non-profit to manage the process of certifying identity providers.

Software for the Skype VoIP calling service, available as a free download in the Nokia Ovi store, will operate on about 200 million handsets at launch.

Big Blue's buyout of NISC deepens its presence in sensitive areas like homeland security, defense, and intelligence.

The TiVo Premiere digital video recorder combines TV and the Internet into one device that could replace the PC for entertainment.

A year and a half after the depths of the financial crisis, independent financial advisers are slowly shifting client assets out of cash and back into the market, brokerage giant Charles Schwab Corp said this week.

Chilean rescue crews fanned out with sniffer dogs Wednesday around quake-ravaged cities and villages, some still hoping to find survivors and others facing the daunting task of recovering bodies buried under mountains of rubble.

State government agencies must support telecommuters with standard and secure IT infrastructure.

But lawmakers want companies to take the lead against online censorship.

CIOs report they're finding it hard to recruit IT talent with the skills to work on EMRs and physician order entry systems.

AP - Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline "black boxes" that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.

AP - TiVo Inc. prevailed yet again in a long-running dispute with Dish Network Corp. over patents for digital video recorders, as a federal appeals court cleared the way Thursday for TiVo to collect hundreds of millions of dollars. TiVo shares jumped more than 50 percent.

AP - Hulu's days as a free online video site could be ending soon.

AP - Two game studio heads fired by Activision this week are suing the video game publisher, saying it let them go to avoid paying hefty royalties from the popular "Call of Duty."

AP - RealNetworks Inc. said Wednesday that it will stop selling technology that lets consumers copy DVDs to their computer hard drives, settling a handful of lawsuits filed against the company by Hollywood's six major movie studios.

AP - Spanish authorities who dismantled a network of up to 12.7 million virus-infected, data-stealing computers said Wednesday the mastermind of the scam remains a mystery, even though three alleged ringleaders have been arrested.

AP - Move Inc.'s fourth-quarter loss widened as the online real estate service's revenue drooped in a still-sluggish market for home buying and renting.

Reuters - If there were an Oscar for the best TV commercial for a best picture nominee, it would go to "Up in the Air." And it wouldn't even be close.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp is aiming to launch two phones that will be sold by top U.S. mobile operator Verizon Wireless in late spring or early summer, a person briefed on the matter said on Thursday.

PC World - YouTube is opening up its auto-caption feature to everybody, a move that benefits not only deaf users, but also people who watch videos in really noisy places, like airport terminals. And since the tool will be able to translate captions into your choice of 50 languages, it should be handy for viewing YouTube clips from around the world. (For now, however, auto-captioning works only with videos in English.)

NewsFactor - Japanese electronics giant Sony has been busy developing new handheld devices in an effort to better compete in the mobile market. Under way is a suite of new devices, including a PlayStation game-playing phone.

Macworld.com - I have a not-so-secret confession to make: I hate doing chores. Youâ € ™ve got to find the time for it, then work up the motivation, and once you finally have both of those things, you need the supplies to finish the job. Iâ € ™ve tried organizational apps before, but they only really help with time management and suppliesâ € "motivation is an entirely different story.

AP - ArcSight, a provider of network security software and services, said Thursday that its fiscal third-quarter profit fell 57 percent as higher operating expenses overshadowed growth in product and maintenance sales.

InfoWorld - OSGi, which is intended to provide modularity for Java, is the focus of efforts afoot at IBM and the Eclipse Foundation, with IBM leveraging OSGi in its application server and Eclipse using it in a new framework for accessing enterprise technology.

AFP - NATO must be ready to address the security threats posed by potential enemies in cyberspace, the secretary general of the western military alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Thursday.