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IT workers have their choice of many great U.S. cities for work and play (Atlanta, Chicago, Seattle), but what are the cities that you probably should avoid? Here's a very unscientific, highly subjective and unapologetically snarky list of our least favorite U.S. tech job locales. Read...

Dr. David Blumenthal -- a long-time Boston physician, official at Partners Healthcare System, and Harvard professor, was named national health IT coordinator to lead President Obama's health IT strategy in March. Topping Blumenthal's list of duties is making recommendations to the U.S. Dept. of Health and...

Yahoo thinks its plan for a new data center could eventually help the company achieve carbon-neutral status without having to resort to the purchase of carbon offsets. Yahoo designed its forthcoming data center to let outside air cool the servers at all times, borrowing the idea...

President Obama wants your advice on how the government should keep its secrets. A month ago, he issued a memorandum directing national security advisers to recommend ways to improve the rules by which records are classified and later opened to the public. Starting Monday, tech-savvy citizens...

A felony identity-theft charge should be reinstated against a Jefferson County man accused of hacking into his boss' computer and circulating e-mails under the boss' name describing an affair he was having, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The man's boss, Mark Fisher, committed suicide the...

A group of 38 computer scientists, law professors and security experts is urging Google to do to more to protect Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs from snooping. Specifically, the group is asking Google to use a standard encryption technology, known as HTTPS, that is commonly...

TECHNOLOGY blogs have wondered whether Google is a lumbering giant in this Twitter moment, unable to handle streams of tweets that were broadcast just seconds earlier. Google moves faster than some of its critics think. But even if didn’t, the more important question is this: Do...