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Five masked bandits grabbed MacBook Pros, iPhones and iPod Touches from a New Jersey Apple Store in a heist that lasted a total of 31 seconds.

Microsoft is issuing five critical patches for its upcoming Patch Tuesday security bulletin release Sept. 8, all of which enable hackers to launch malicious attacks remotely.

Red Hat will combine its Linux and JBoss products with ISV applications for sale to the midmarket through the channel.

VMware and its friends (and some competitors) used the VMworld 2009 conference in San Francisco to show they are reaching for the cloud -- the compute cloud, that is. Here are some of the highlights.

The next great leap for virtualization? It just might involve graphics processors.

Compulinx Managed Services CEO Terrence Chalk pleads guilty to identity theft of employees.

There's no notification during the upgrade process that the change has even occurred.

EC is concerned about the impact on market competition if Oracle owns the MySQL open-source database.

Google says that Tuesday's massive Gmail outage was caused by overloaded request servers and says the Gmail outage was a 'big deal.'

The security industry is embracing the virtualization of the IT environment. Here are a few security offerings you'll see on the VMworld show floor.

VMware CTO Steve Herrod uses his VMworld keynote to show new virtualization technologies that make it easier for mobile users to get the desktop PC experience from anywhere, including an iPhone app that acts as a virtual desktop.

Evolve IP offers managed services designed for the midmarket that can capture the majority of a customer's wallet share while creating a recurring revenue stream with as much or as little involvement as a solution provider chooses.

Companies without volume licensing agreements haven't been invited to the Windows 7 testing party, but they now have a chance to test out Windows 7 Enterprise edition free of charge.

The acquisition will expand EMC's eDiscovery technology and make it a key player in technology to search for data through a wide variety of data sources.

Directors immediately begin search for successor.

Online privacy group asks government to oversee unsavory Internet advertising practices.

The fact that Google's Chrome is being prebundled on Sony's Vaio PCs could indicate a coming shift in the Web browser market.

Windows 7 has energy efficiency, memory management, faster start times, better organization and is XP compatible. Take that, Mac.

The Wintel partnership may have gotten a little testy in the Vista era, but Microsoft and Intel are out to prove that the Windows 7 rollout is going to be a whole lot different.

Google seems to have partially restored Gmail service after a prolonged outage blocked access to millions of e-mail accounts Tuesday afternoon.