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Microsoft to release lowest-priced Lumia smartphone yet

Uber sued for false advertising by California taxi companies

How your car will help control your home

Home automation and the connected car will merge if some synergistic ideas gain momentum.

Ideovitra seeks to slay PC power vampires with SensyBee smart switch

Apple Watch and its wireless tech

What NFC, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi will, or won't, do for Apple

AeroFS makes cloud collaboration free for up to 30 users

Pixometer app offers a smarter way to read dumb meters

Proposed data breach notification bill criticized as too weak

IT manager gets certificate for Microsoft domain, tries to report it but gets in trouble

Cisco replaces UCS server head; software leaders also depart

Perez gone, Sethi takes over; Cloupia founders starting new company

UberPop banned by German court

With mobile on its mind, SugarCRM looks to expand

Windows 10 will end OS reinstall headaches

System files in place will end the nuisance of having to do multiple updates after a reinstall.

UK government filing raises fears about misuse of hacking powers

IT workers’ voices heard in the Senate, confidentially

Senate Judiciary Committee debates the H-1B visa and worker displacement

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, March 18

FCC’s net neutrality rules are complex, and that might be a good thing

The Commission’s 400-page document somehow still leaves lots of room for interpretation. And that could be the point!

Microsoft’s deal with Xiaomi over Windows 10 raises eyebrows

Corporate culture hinders cyber insurance buy-in

Homeland Security officials working to promote cyber insurance cautions that security issues are too often marginalized within the IT department rather being incorporated into the larger enterprise risk management framework.

US gov’t wants HTTPS on its publicly-accessible sites within two years

Xiaomi users to test Windows 10 ahead of summer launch

Premera, Anthem data breaches linked by similar hacking tactics

Hundreds of Android and iOS apps are still vulnerable to FREAK attacks

Google Cloud and a Chromebook might be your next contact center

Premera Blue Cross says data breach may affect 11 million customers

Ellison swings at Salesforce as Oracle’s growth sputters

Hackers compromise 1.8 million medical records from healthcare provider Premera

Attackers had more than nine months undetected to do their dirty work

Facebook brings payments to Messenger app

Does Juniper have too many SDNs?

Last week's product launch extends range of controllers and data center fabrics

Red Hat formulates a plan for building enterprise mobile apps

Nvidia unveils $10,000 autonomous driving computer

Twitter adds tool to report tweets to the police

Microsoft wants to kill passwords with biometric authentication in Windows 10

5G faces technical, political hurdles on the way to offering multigigabit speeds

Dropbox for Business gets two new collaboration tools

Windows 10 embraces iris scans, facial recognition

Windows Hello authenticates without passwords but requires special cameras to use access all features

Facebook query software crawls data mountains more quickly

Survey: Users hate lack of privacy controls on Internet

However, most people think they are good at staying private online

IBM puts a price on its Twitter analytics service

Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce top Forrester cloud platform list

How to find the right cloud platform for your app developers

Yes, I still have an answering machine

Social Security: Where’d all the 112 year-olds come from?

Death is a complex records problem; Government-wide, improper payment estimates totaled $124.7 billion in fiscal year 2014

It’s a smartphone world, everyone else just lives in it

Recent IDC market projections for PCs and tablets make it clearer than ever that the smartphone revolution is now the primary driver of technology adoption.

S. Korea probes Uber employees for breaking transport laws

Can software-based POS encryption improve PCI compliance?

Some vendors are urging the PCI Council to consider approving software-based point-to-point encryption

Microsoft blacklists fraudulently issued SSL certificate

Unify adds connectors, features, Android app to its unified comms service Circuit

Adobe launches Document Cloud with touch-enabled Acrobat DC

Researchers find same RSA encryption key used 28,000 times

With new specification, run one application across devices