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Micron Technology chief executive Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash in Boise, Idaho, early Friday.

KISS frontman Gene Simmons says the band will be teaming up with wildly popular video game Angry Birds.

Google is looking to gain higher security accreditations that would enable wider use of Google Apps by the UK government.

EMC has launched its latest Isilon Network Attached Storage (NAS) offering, introducing native support for the open source analytics platform Hadoop, based on Apache.

European data protection authorities are asking Google to delay its roll out of a new consolidated privacy policy that will further integrate your personal information across all of Google's services. The European Union's Article 29 Working Party, a European umbrella organization that includes 27 data protection authorities in the EU, sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page Thursday asking for more time to study the company's policy update.

The politically-motivated hacking group Anonymous released on Friday a 17-minute recording of a conference call between U.S. and British law enforcement agents coordinating an ongoing investigation into the group.

Analyst says more advertising and "Facebook Premium" are options after the IPO.

The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.10 on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform.

Google does not plan to delay its new privacy policy despite calls from Europe's data protection watchdog.

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Researchers from security vendor Symantec have identified a new premium-rate SMS Android Trojan horse that modifies its code every time it gets downloaded in order to bypass antivirus detection.