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Google Fiber eyed for three more cities: Oklahoma City, Jacksonville and Tampa

In Kansas City area, Google Fiber outage strikes at start of World Series, angering customers

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 beta build for phones fixes pesky upgrade bug

New software brings performance improvements, but no new features

iPhone case review: Leathery goodness

How did Apple get to be a $25 billion player in the enterprise?

The big question: how much of that success comes from the Mac vs. the iPhone?

Does Oracle have a shot in the IaaS cloud market versus Amazon and Microsoft?

Oracle is making a big push in the IaaS cloud market, some wonder if its too little too late

How CISA encourages both cybersecurity information sharing and warrantless surveillance

By facilitating a stronger cybersecurity defense, CISA could also give the NSA powerful metadata surveillance capabilities.

Facebook aims for slow-download empathy with 2G Tuesdays

Company employees can see what it's like for mobile users to access the Internet in emerging markets

Google threatens action against Symantec-issued certificates following botched investigation

Symantec's investigation into a case of internal testing gone wrong failed to find a large number of certificates issued without authorization

Nintendo smartphone game delayed to March, won’t have Mario

The company's first smartphone game will be a 'free-to-start' title called Miitomo

Verizon lights a fire under IoT

The carrier's ThingSpace platform is designed to get connected devices out in the world quicker

Verizon focuses on lowering costs for IoT apps, network

ThingSpace platform and core IoT network announced

Smartphones hit second-highest quarter record

Samsung still leads globally with 6% growth

KubeCon and the growing importance of Kubernetes

Google is the exemplar for how to build and run massive applications. When it open-sourced its infrastructure management system, it unleashed a wave of activity.

Employees snoop on corporate systems if they can, researchers find

Occasions when employees were able to access information that should have been off-limits are among the evidence of insider threats uncovered by researchers.

Apple in the enterprise: Tim Cook capitalizes on what Steve Jobs ignored

The ex-IBM executive does what his predecessor would not do, and profits handily.

Biometric data becomes the encryption key in Fujitsu system

The new system improves on current biometric-based security systems

Linux cousins Part 2: Reviewing ReactOS, the Open Source version of Windows

Here I take a look at ReactOS, an impressive, yet underwhelming, Open Source replacement for Windows.

Mac sales reach record high as unrelenting iPad slide continues

Apple sold more than 20 million Macs in its 2015 fiscal year, a first

Microsoft unveils new betas for SQL Server 2016, Azure Data Lake services

Announcements are another step in the company's big data push

US says it’s ok to hack cars and medical devices (sometimes)

Researchers will be able to look for flaws in software running on cars and medical devices without fearing legal action

Outlook for iOS and Android gets a subtle redesign as Microsoft moves to unite email apps

Sunrise Calendar will be subsumed into the app in the future

IBM snaps up Weather.com and more in Watson IoT push

Also this week IBM announced six new partners using Watson to develop new apps

Cisco acquires a third company this week

1 Mainstream has a cloud-based video service networking giant needs

Telogis delivers consumer-level application friendliness for the bluest of blue-collar workers

I'm a sucker for a "technology for the real world" story. Telogis delivers just that, making professional drivers' lives easier.

With Google developers now living in their cars, is Silicon Valley going to drive tech talent out?

Highly paid software developers helped drive up Bay Area rents, and now even they can't afford to live here. Is this a threat to the future of Silicon Valley?

The FBI isn’t wrong; sometimes you will have to pay the ransom

It might make you feel dirty, but paying could be the best bet in some situations

Oracle’s Larry Ellison decries poor state of security, says he’s fixed it

Ellison claims Oracle's new servers would have stopped Heartbleed in its tracks

Despite recent moves against Adobe, 80% of PCs run expired Flash

Despite recent moves against Adobe Flash by Google and Firefox and its declining use by websites, Adobe Flash remains a significant security vulnerability for end users, with 80 of computers running an end-of-life version of the plugin

Split between EU privacy watchdogs on Safe Harbor worries business lobby

German data protection authorities say hosting Europeans' data in Europe is the only safe option

InteliSecure building a high-end security-services boutique

With purchase of Pentura, company gains a foothold in Europe, more managed data-loss-protection pros

‘Jeffpardy’ spoof of Jeopardy is amusing, defies explanation

CISA legislation would lift liability for businesses sharing cyber threat information

Privacy advocates still opposed, some gray areas remain for corporations

MIT uses Wi-Fi to look through walls

Iranian hackers show strong interest in Android spying tools

AndroRAT and DroidJack both can read text messages and listen to calls

Apple sales, profit surge on iPhone strength

Mobile devices continued to drive sales, but iPad sales were down again

Review: Google’s Nexus 5X is a new twist on an old success

The Nexus 5 was a big hit two years ago. Now LG and Google are hoping to top the charts again with the Nexus 5X.

Oracle pushes into AWS territory with new IaaS services

Pricing and perceived security will be key differentiators, one analyst says

IBM, Jasper connect IoT devices in the field to analytics behind the scenes

Integration between Jasper's Control Center and IBM's IoT Foundation should simplify enterprise IoT

Microsoft’s advice: Hang up on tech support scammers

'We've got to put somebody in jail for these folks to take us seriously,' counters Sen. McCaskill (D-Missouri)

How hackers compromised chipped credit cards, and how the authorities discovered it

The new chipped bank cards were, until recently, susceptible to fraud just like the magnetic ones. Scientists discovered how scams worked through forensics.

Cybersecurity careers: Where are the women?

Ratheon studies paint pretty ugly picture of millennials in the cybersecurity realm

Video review: Google’s Nexus 6P sets new low price for top-tier Android 6.0 smartphones

Google's new Android 6.0-powered Nexus 6P, built from top-tier components and materials, impresses at a $500 price.

Can Oracle lead in the cloud? Only if customers follow

'It's all about getting customers converted,' one analyst says

Cisco buying Lancope for $450M

Network analysis tools bolster Security Everywhere initiative

IBM stirs Spark-as-a-service into IBM Bluemix

The new IBM Analytics on Apache Spark service is designed to allow developers to infuse applications on the Bluemix cloud platform with real-time analytics.

Mozilla will donate $1 million to open-source projects

Senate to battle Tuesday on controversial CISA cybersecurity bill

Critics of the bill say it is designed to collect personal data on people

Power-sipping San Francisco network could have IoT devices buzzing

The city will install antennas at its libraries for the low-power, wide-area network

UK arrests teenager in connection with TalkTalk hack

TalkTalk continues to deal with the fallout from its third data breach this year

Mirantis looks to China to fuel OpenStack growth

China holds a lot of potential. Mirantis announces a partnership to unlock it.