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LTE can mooch off of Wi-Fi spectrum with new Qualcomm chipset

Republican bill would overturn FCC municipal broadband decision

Apple slates March 9 event, hints at Watch wearable

If it sticks with a promised April on-sale, pre-orders could help it manage the channel and identify the most popular SKU, says analyst

What it means: The FCC’s net neutrality vote

In addition to expected legal challenges, experts say a profusion of private networks will emerge

Net neutrality rules passed, but we don’t know how it works yet

FCC sharply divided on party lines. Chairman Wheeler broke the tie.

CIA: A world without Google Maps or satellites?

CIA notes pictures from world’s first imaging recon. satellite were declassified 20 years ago this month.

How Google avoids downtime

Hint: It doesn’t aim for perfection in keeping Google cloud, apps up

Samsung mass produces 128GB smartphone memory with 2X-plus performance

Samsung's new embedded memory also supports command queuing

Some Bitdefender products break HTTPS certificate revocation

New Forescout CEO wants to make partners an offer they can’t refuse

ForeScout names former Intel security executive Michael DeCesare CEO

FCC passes net neutrality rules, reclassifies broadband as utility

Docker introduces orchestration tools for large scale deployments

Net Neutrality May Face an Uphill Battle If History Tells Us Anything

Box woos financial services firms with a tailored cloud offering

Researchers uncover signs of Superfish-style attacks

EFF duo find clues of possible attacks against visitors to Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Wells Fargo and other websites

Microsoft SharePoint coming up short for most enterprises, study finds

AIIM group finds Microsoft's Yammer social tool slow to catch on as well, though IT shops hopeful about product roadmap

FCC votes to overturn state laws limiting municipal broadband

Reminder that the Internet, too, could have saved Coca-Cola from ‘New Coke’ debacle

The downside to mass data storage in the cloud

The ability to access Dropcam video footage in the cloud is indicative of a broader trend in cloud computing that is eating away at privacy.

Sturdy design is still Moto E’s trump card

HP preps IoT wares to tame energy beasts, like runaway air conditioners

Google designing new Mountain View headquarters

Company plans to submit plans Friday for new development

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, February 26

So. Cal. Edison’s IT layoffs are ‘heartless,’ says Sen. Grassley

In Senate speech, he renews call for U.S. worker protections in H-1B visa program

How enterprises can use artificial intelligence

Not just for sci-fi and robotics anymore, A.I. is used for fraud detection, scheduling and search

Salesforce’s Desk.com steps up its global focus

London Underground hums with better data on tracks

Like Google in Vietnam, Lenovo tripped up by a DNS attack

Zuckerberg to hold public Facebook Q&A in Barcelona

Juniper loses CIO to VMware

Iyer tapped to replace Scott, USA's new CIO

Report: HP to buy Aruba for wireless tech

Google pushes Android devices into the enterprise

Android for Work would make devices more secure, manageable to use in the enterprise

DARPA wants advanced sensors to watch over growing hot spot: The Artic

Rapidly deployable and rugged are main requirements for DARPA sensors

Ex-Facebook engineer launches startup to tackle server management

Apple ordered to pay Texas company $532.9 million after losing patent case

Broadband advocates urge Republicans to overturn FCC on net neutrality

Europol and security vendors disrupt massive Ramnit botnet

New, faster wireless network to be built

Synthesizing cells at the exact physical location of the mobile device could improve spectral efficiency and revolutionize mobile networks, if it works.

Facebook fixed 61 high-severity flaws last year through its bug bounty program

Dtex software fights insider threats

Dtex Systems, a security company born in Australia 15 years ago, is bringing its insider-threat-detection software to the U.S.

MIT researchers building chips to prevent leaky Internet of Things

MIT electrical engineering group seeks to balance power with energy efficiency in IoT

Top social media apps are serious data hogs

The top five mobile apps in the United States drive nearly two thirds of total mobile data consumption, according to a new report, and three of those five apps are social media services.

Uber offers free rides to Koreans, hopes they won’t report its illegal drivers to police

Motorola’s new Moto E is a more powerful LTE smartphone

Flaw in popular Web analytics plug-in exposes WordPress sites to hacking

With no Google, Chinese app stores soar on high downloads

Microsoft brings machine learning to Azure

Microsoft rolls out Hadoop-based Big Data analytics and an open source analytics platform for Azure.

Interns loving life at Facebook, Google & Apple

Latest Glassdoor survey shows Microsoft, HP and Yahoo! also popular among interns

How IBM analyzes Twitter for the enterprise developer

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, February 25