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Extreme replaces CEO yet again

It's six in nine years, as board chair takes over for Berger

Dropcam footage, Facebook posts sink suspected serial burglar (see video)

Box CEO courts enterprise cloud customers

Businesses spend tens of billions of dollars a year trying to solve new problem with old technology, according Box CEO Aaron Levie, who says his company provides cutting-edge tech that addresses evolving enterprise storage needs.

Pretty much all of the Apple Watches are coming to work

Dell takes on Cisco and Juniper with 100G data center switch

Z9100 supports multiple rates, including 25G and 50G Ethernet

How your smartphone use could affect your credit

Lenders are looking at smartphone metadata to help develop an approximate credit score for those who don't have much credit.

To compete with Silicon Valley, European startups need to grow fast

Survey: Employees will only embrace smartwatches if they improve work environment

For enterprise-provided, data-sharing smartwatches to be accepted, they need to improve working hours, reduce stress, and allow varied work locations, a new survey has found.

Xiaomi Mi 4i combines impressive specs with a $200 price tag

Insider threats force balance between security and access

Security experts caution that non-malicious actors within the enterprise are the more challenging aspect of the insider threat, calling for rethinking policies to better tailor employee and vendor access.

Reporting cybercrime feels like ‘Groundhog Day’

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, April 23

Huawei eyes US enterprise market despite political challenges

Qualcomm hit by China fine, cut in Samsung business

US House approves cyberthreat sharing bill; privacy concerns remain

Google puts integration at the center of Chrome for Work

Box wants to be a platform for easy-to-write enterprise apps

How Intel could prolong Moore’s Law with new materials, transistors

Facebook releases a caller ID app for Android

SDN start-up stitches together clouds

Avni founded by Cisco, Juniper veterans to develop cloud application portability

Slightly fast and not furious: Lightweight car challenge brings out wicked cool prototypes

Energy Department’s LITECAR Challenge shows off automotive winners

AdBlock Plus wins in German court, a setback for Microsoft, Google, and advertisers

Content and advertising companies, including Microsoft and Google, had been threatening legal action against the maker of AdBlock Plus.

Google launches Project Fi, its combo cellular and Wi-Fi network

Service will start for Nexus 6 smartphones under invitation-only early access program

Google boosts workplace efforts with Box integration, videoconferencing

Chrome users attack Google over revamped bookmarks manager

For now, users can restore the old list-style manager, but that's probably just temporary

Think your management job is safe? Beware: the ‘iCEO’ is coming

Qualys devises a virtual patch to protect against vulnerabilities

SSL certificate flaw allows hackers to crash devices running iOS 8

Senate leader introduces bill to extend Patriot Act surveillance

Mobile money transfers to Africa expected to hit $33 billion this year

An entire country’s data is getting backed up

The country of Estonia is backing up its entire government dataset, and also devising ways to operate through the cloud in the event of an attack by a foreign nation. Its neighbor is Russia.

EMC Syncplicity lets enterprises manage their own encryption keys

New Office 365 features appease the cloud-wary

With a slate of new management, encryption, and data-security features for Office 365, Microsoft hopes to eliminate excuses for not using the cloud

Crypto gurus: The government’s key escrow plan won’t work

Cranking up Google Apps for Work, using an actual key

Upping the ante on multi-factor ID

RSA: Panel calls NSA access to encryption keys a bad idea

Mandated access to decrypt communications would cripple privacy

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, April 22

Huawei to expand retail presence, as it finds success selling higher-end phones

MtGox creditors can finally file claims for lost bitcoins

HP leaves Apple Beats behind with new X360 hybrids

Nigerian gov’t hands over Nitel, Mtel assets to NATCOM

Cisco’s cloudy knowledge

SaaS portal enables collaborative learning

NASA teams scientific experts to find life on exoplanets

NASA teams 16 scientific outfits with the goal of finding signatures of life

Microsoft moves to address customers’ concerns about cloud control and transparency

Big Data visualization: Finding the needle in a haystack

How Big Data was able to help stop an E. coli outbreak, and what we can learn from that example.

A careful look inside new spam quarantine

Lack of broadband in some areas still limiting telemedicine

Google, Microsoft and Amazon: Who’s got the best cloud for big data?

The latest battle-ground in the cloud is big data

Enough with the IT journeys already!!!

Journey to the center of one of IT's most overused terms

In case you aren’t suitably impressed by the scale of Amazon Web Services