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Decisions, decisions. Should I wait for that Ivy Bridge-based laptop? Yeah, if you want a faster system with better battery life.

Infochimps announces platform as a service environment for the redhot big data market.

There's more than phones coming to Barcelona. The maker of Firefox says that the Mozilla Marketplace will open its doors to developers at next week's Mobile World Congress.

Oracle Offers Free Trial of Innovative Ksplice Zero-Downtime Updates to Red Hat Customers

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• Oracle today introduced a 30-day free trial of Oracle's Ksplice zero-downtime kernel update technology for Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.
• Oracle is the only enterprise Linux provider that can offer zero-downtime updates that enable customers to apply security updates, diagnostic patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers can experience the benefit of Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates for the kernels they have installed today without any system reconfiguration.
• Access the 30-day free Ksplice trial here. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.
• Oracle also announced that Ksplice zero-downtime kernel updates for Oracle's Red Hat Compatible Kernel are now available to Oracle Linux Premier Support customers. Zero-downtime updates for Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel have been available since September 2011.
• Additionally, Oracle extended the support lifecycle for Oracle Linux from eight to ten years, further enhancing the industry's most comprehensive and low-cost Linux support program.
• Oracle's Linux support program has distinguished itself from the start by offering more value to customers through lifetime support policies, premier backporting, comprehensive legal indemnification, best practices for deployment, and lower cost.

CEO Meg Whitman says during an earnings conference call that Hewlett-Packard has a line of products ready for the next iteration of Windows.

CEO Meg Whitman says that the company is "taking the necessary steps to improve execution."

The company says, according to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, that Verizon would receive an "excessive concentration" of wireless spectrum in the deal.

One of the organization's employees also says Foxconn banned 16- and 17-year-old workers from overtime while inspections are ongoing.

The Daily stands by its report that Microsoft has created an iPad version of Office, though the folks in Redmond label the story inaccurate.

Mozilla has begun adding mobile device support to its newer extensions framework--but it's also changing Jetpack's direction and requiring earlier extensions to be rebuilt.

The agency's top technology employee, Ira "Gus" Hunt said it'll now start acquiring software on a pay-as-you-go basis, rather than enter into licensing agreements.

The software giant says Motorola is attempting to use essential patents "to kill video on the Web." It also didn't miss the opportunity to take a swipe at Google.

Taking your site mobile is a technology minefield. Here's how we're doing it at CBS Interactive.

The new devices could appear later this year, with hybrid disk drives helping keep costs low, according to a report.

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For fiscal 2013, the company says that non-GAAP earnings will top the $2.13 a share mark posted in fiscal 2012.

Microsoft says a report that it's nearly finished with a version of Office for iPad is "inaccurate."

Beyond tight integration with Windows 8, SkyDrive could be due for a slew of new features and enhancements in its next version.

Support will now run for a total of 10 years from when the operating systems were released, meaning end dates of 2020 for Windows 7 and 2017 for Vista.

The Daily reports that Redmond may soon make its Office suite app available for the Apple iPad, giving tablet users access to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.