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iPad loses marketshare as tablet market shrinks

Windows 10’s launch was a bit bumpy, but people seem to like it

Is there any stopping the AWS juggernaut?

By now the dust has settled on Amazon's second quarter financial performance. It's time to look at what the fine performance of Amazon's AWS division means for the industry at large.

Critical BIND denial-of-service flaw could disrupt large portions of the Internet

Opponents focus on defeating CISA cyberthreat info sharing bill

Is the smartphone market saturated?

Endpoint security firm SentinelOne challenges traditional anti-virus software

Tests show SentinelOne’s behavior-based security performs as well as signature-based software.

How predictive analytics will revolutionize healthcare

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System is using Microsoft's Cortana Analytics Suite and Microsoft Dynamics to create a new type of healthcare. It will use predictive analytics to focuses on prevention, better care and cutting costs.

Windows 10 picks up good vibrations, user excitations

Social media buzz measurements by Adobe peg Microsoft's new OS with a lower 'sadness' score than Apple's next OS X

Symantec: Well-heeled hacking group Black Vine behind Anthem breach

Despite H-1B lottery, offshore firms dominate visa use

An H-1B lottery arms race may be in progress

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, July 30

Armed with Watson smarts, Pepper aspires to be a robot salesman

Open-source startup hopes to change the way businesses visualize data

SlamData open-source project helps businesses visualize semi-structured NoSQL data.

OPM, Anthem hackers reportedly also breached United Airlines

Obama rolls out initiative to boost US supercomputer capability

The StageFright Vulnerability: Maybe the greatest Android vulnerability (so far)

This vulnerability is epic and, perhaps, a huge warning about what's ahead.

Oracle preps ‘Sonoma’ chip for low-priced Sparc servers

As Windows 10 launches, Microsoft pushes for enterprise adoption

Facebook revenue surges 39 percent but costs also soar

Microsoft delivers Windows 10 .iso files, free eval of Enterprise edition

Sets expiration date of Insider preview for Windows 10 Enterprise as Oct. 1, after which customers must replace with a valid license

Computer fires requiring a 911 call rare

About 350 computer fires in homes each year

Windows 10 launch draws small group of Microsoft diehards in Boston and San Francisco

Jane Austen lets the boogie man in: Cisco report

Mid-year security tally finds attackers using Sense and Sensibility

Intel, Micron boast 1,000-times faster flash memory

Flash memory breakthrough promises significantly faster data analysis.

Why 1&1 deployed SolidFire’s flash storage for its new cloud servers

It is always interesting to see how technology vendors themselves use technology to build and deliver their services.

Americas are just 2 weeks away from running out of IPv4 addresses

Yes! Tom Brady’s ‘Deflategate’ suspension has a tech angle!

Finally, a legitimate reason for me to blog about this.

HP scoops up cloudy app-dev platform Stackato

Cloud consolidation continues

Maliciously crafted MKV video files can be used to crash Android phones

How should the U.S. respond to state-sponsored cyberattacks?

A new poll suggests the general public views the growing threats from nation-states as significant, but they may be off base in terms of their prescriptions for how to respond.

After Windows 8 debacle, OEMs wax rhapsodic over Windows 10

Motorola takes aim at Apple and Samsung with new Moto X and Moto G smartphones

As a Google company, Motorola's Moto X design wow'd reviewers and consumers. Now part of Lenovo, Motorola's new supply chain extends its proven design with very competitive prices.

As Citrix CEO is set to retire, product carnage looks ready to begin

After pressure from an activist investor, Citrix's CEO announced his plan to retire. But what does this mean for the company's product mix?

IT hears the siren call of free Windows 10 upgrades

Two-thirds of polled IT pros agree that the free upgrade makes them more likely to adopt the new OS

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, July 29

On your mark, get set, update! Windows 10 is here

Making Windows 10 was like ‘ordering pizza for 1.5 billion people’

No building access card? No problem if you have new Def Con tools

Twitter mulling big changes to how you view tweets

Twitter surprises with a sales gain, but user growth lags

Italian parliament drafts a declaration of Internet rights

With ‘recall,’ Fiat Chrysler makes its car hack worse

Or, how not to handle a software patch.

Human error to blame in fatal crash of Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft

Virgin Galactic’s co-pilot prematurely unlocked the braking system, but NTSB says that a single human error shouldn’t have caused crash of SpaceShipTwo

Salesforce tools let customers snap together new mobile apps

Darkode cybercrime forum might be making a comeback

NFV a hit for OpenDaylight

Almost 3/4 of users adopt it for virtualized functions; enterprises find NFV appealing too

Google: Lock up your Compute Engine data with your own encryption keys

EU privacy watchdog weighs in on data protection reform, shares concerns

Brinks safe — with a USB port — proves easy hacking for security researchers