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Facebook-backed Internet.org loses some Indian partners over net neutrality

Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent just as John Chambers predicted

Cisco CEO said there would be " brutal" consolidation coming

Yikes: 10,000 IRS impersonation scam calls are placed every week

IRS imposter fraud lands on Capitol Hill

Will containers kill the virtual machine?

As container hype sweeps across technology, what does it mean for VMs?

Twitter turns its home page into a news and information hub

Microsoft makes debugging PHP less painful with new Azure tool

Transition to IP network creates cybersecurity challenges for FAA

FAA needs to bolster cybersecurity of Nation’s air traffic control system

Resilient Systems arms security teams with automated incident responses

Action Module makes mitigation steps happen faster and with certainty

For Microsoft, hardware and OS consistency key in Surface 3

Huawei’s P8 and P8max get all-metal designs, improved camera

Six net neutrality lawsuits: What are the complaints about?

Inside AZ Labs, a facility ‘certified at the highest level’ of cybersecurity

In this unique rental office space, networks are protected with firewalls — and guards, and Faraday cages.

How smartphone sensors can make expensive weather-monitoring equipment obsolete

Collecting weather data, performing earthquake early warnings, and issuing flooding advisories are all tasks that can be crowd-sourced by smartphones.

BYOD leading to increasingly risky behavior among employees

With more employees at more organizations using their own mobile devices in the workplace, security is fast approaching Threat Level Midnight.

Boston Marathon runners warned not to overshare on social media

Bib number scandal in 2014 forces Boston Marathon officials to warn about posting to Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Nokia to buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.5B in deal that unites fixed, mobile broadband strengths

HTC ‘working closely’ with Microsoft on a Windows 10 smartphone

An HTC executive confirmed that the company is working on a new Windows 10 smartphone. Will it abandon this one too?

Four new lawsuits challenge FCC’s net neutrality rules

With latest patches, Oracle signals no more free updates for Java 7

The company released patches from 98 security issues in its products, 14 in Java

Illumio goes to the well for $100 million more in venture funding

Latest infusion from A-List investors goes to R&D, broadening customer base

Europe reportedly ready to file antitrust charges against Google

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: The patches just keep coming

The future is now: You may already be using IPv6

Apple’s ResearchKit is here, now open your iPhone and say ‘ah’

Lessons from Altoona: What Facebook’s newest data center can teach us

How can Facebook's data center design apply to your data center plans?

Web app attacks, PoS intrusions and cyberespionage leading causes of data breaches

U.S. business group urges China to loosen data-storage policies

US Navy researchers get drones to swarm on target

US Navy, Air Force, DARPA all looking to get small drones act as a swarm

Three new lawsuits challenge FCC’s net neutrality rules

MIT alums celebrate 10th anniversary of bogus CompSci paper generator with cheeky new tool

Creators of SCIgen computer science paper generator return with SCIpher tool for sending phony calls for papers from fictitious conferences

Update: That shocking video about ESD

GreenPages targets organizations looking to go digital

U.S. gets 233,000 H-1B petitions, a new record

Odds of winning visa lottery drop to 36%

Five security questions you should be asking about the Apple Watch

Many security professionals are already thinking about the security implications of the Apple Watch

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for April 14

Nokia wants to buy Alcatel-Lucent, seeking growth and integration of fixed and mobile

Microsoft’s Spartan browser vs. the rest: How will it stack up?

Browser battle: Microsoft Spartan vs. Google Chrome vs. Mozilla Firefox vs. Microsoft IE

Deterrence will keep a lid on cyberwar, former spy chief says

Indian net neutrality backers get boost from Flipkart retreat on free app access

RadioShack presses ahead plan for sale of customer data

IBM’s Watson Health division will incorporate patient data from Apple

New bill would invalidate FCC’s net neutrality rules

Turing manuscript sells for $1 million

New cyberthreat information sharing bill may be more friendly to privacy

The International Space Station (finally!) gets an espresso machine

SpaceX set to deliver NASA experiments along with coffee machine

Hortonworks to speed Hadoop cloud deployments

Hortonworks has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Budapest-based SequenceIQ, a specialist in deployment automation technology for launching on-demand Hadoop clusters in the cloud or any environment that supports Docker containers.

5 things I learned living with just a smartphone for two weeks

I was worried that traveling lightly with a single device would be too limiting, but it turns out that getting by is surprisingly easy.

elementary OS team releases ‘Freya,’ a Linux distro you’ll want to see

With Freya, elementary introduces a seriously impressive consumer-focused Linux distribution.

The shocking truth (and lies) about ESD

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, April 13