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How to Win the IT Infrastructure and Operations Talent War

ITU standardizes 1Gbps over copper, but services won’t come until 2015

G.fast standard will open the door for 4K video over telephone wires

Manage app logons and authorizations via the cloud

Both startups and traditional vendors offer access management as a service

Internet companies dismayed by French law allowing warrantless access to live user data

The French senate passed a law allowing police and government officials warrantless access to user data from ISPs and online services

Wireless charging consortium launches Rezence, its consumer brand

It plans to showcase wireless charging tech at next month's CES

Privacy groups ask FCC to rule that carriers cannot share phone records

The phone records provided to the government are not really anonymous, the groups said in a petition to the FCC

Banks shouldn’t rely on mobile SMS passcodes, security firm says

As mobile banking grows, malicious Android applications are increasingly intercepting one-time passcodes

Twitter expands keyword targeting so Nestlé knows you ‘luv’ coffee

Twitter said the new capabilities won't increase the number of ads users see in their feeds

Show us a better way than collecting metadata, NSA director says to critics

Keith Alexander asks US tech companies to offer better alternatives than the NSA's phone records collection program

Arizona lawmaker hopes to stop NSA spy efforts in her state

State Senator Kelli Ward plans to introduce a bill that would bar all state help for the spy agency