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Docker buys SDN start-up for container networking

SocketPlane snapped up by Linux container company less than six months after debut

Avi Networks’ analytics tools can be a network engineer’s best ally

Making it easier to identify a problem that may not even involve the network, Avi Networks' analytics let network engineers be "innocent until proven guilty."

Adobe invites help hunting vulnerabilities in its online services

MWC 2015: Microsoft partners with AT&T, Deutsche Telekom for SMB Office

At Mobile World Congress 2015, Microsoft announced deals with AT&T and Deutsche Telekom to bring a full suite of Office apps to SMBs using iOS and Android, in addition to Windows Phone 10.

OpenDNS trials system that quickly detects computer crime

Google, Yahoo offer online tools to keep address books current

Android for Work pushes Google further into enterprise

Google is courting enterprise customers like never before, but it has lacked a proper mobility framework for Android since the OS debuted. Now the company wants to change the game with Android for Work, but could its efforts prove to be too little, t

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, March 5

Five things we learned about Etsy from its IPO filing

Google brings app messaging to its cloud

Cisco might ONIE up

Company says, then doesn't, that Nexus 9K supports open source boot loader

Microsoft’s universal app platform is big play for mobile, but can it deliver?

Facebook wants to get better at detecting fake profiles

Intel’s Skylake chips to appear in tablets, PCs, servers

Against the odds, Canonical and Jolla trot out iOS, Android alternatives

5G, net neutrality may be headed for a showdown

FTC targets group that made billions of robocalls

FTC and 10 state attorneys general settle with vacation services group that made massive amounts of robocalls across the country.

Meru Networks targets growing market for cloud-managed Wi-Fi

With a solution aimed at small businesses but which could apply to larger organizations, Meru Networks is turning to the cloud for plug-and-play Wi-Fi.

Pebble smartwatch sets second Kickstarter record, and it’s not done yet

Over two years after breaking a Kickstarter funding record to get its smartwatch off the ground, Pebble returned to the crowdfunding site to fund its new watch, the Pebble Time.

Can a Barcelona romance bring Wi-Fi and cells together?

Smartphones are about to become network hubs

Broadcom's latest chipset will run 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi simultaneously. That changes everything in terms of media bandwidth and multiple IoT connections.

Internet.org hopes to reach 100 countries in a year, up from six now

But success will depend on carrier support

Net neutrality will put U.S. behind Europe, Cisco’s Chambers says

One year later, we’re no closer to finding MtGox’s missing millions

Momentum grows around Microsoft’s Windows 10 for phones

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, March 4

Budget smartphones shine at Mobile World Congress

China says new cybersurveillance proposal follows US security practices

Alibaba enters US cloud market, signaling global ambitions

Apple, like Google, to hire full-time security guards in Silicon Valley

IBM plugs OpenPower servers into SoftLayer cloud

Judge says $415 million settlement in Silicon Valley hiring case is ‘substantial’

FREAK is another serious flaw in the web’s encryption

What the auto industry thinks about the rumored Apple Car

Auto industry executives have begun chiming in on Apple's rumored electric car.

DARPA to target cyber privacy protection tech

DARPA program named after Louis Brandeis, legacy Right to Privacy advocate

Twitter CFO floats idea of newspaper-like ‘daily edition’

Privacy advocates find Obama proposal lacking

Intel CEO Krzanich: What we’re doing to succeed on smartphones

SanDisk’s InfiniFlash is a new storage format that will sell for under $1/GB

Apple edges out Samsung in fourth quarter smartphone sales

Salesforce, SAP to get a shot of IoT data

The contradictions of software releases and updates

Keeping up with the new features of software releases and upgrades is becoming more and more difficult.

Cisco unfazed by HP/Aruba

WLAN leader says No. 2 provides "bolt on" solution

Spain’s Telefonica goes virtual with HP

Microsoft reportedly prepping a tiny version of Windows Server

The idea behind the Nano Server is to make a server with just the components needed for the cloud.

How Samsung’s Galaxy S6 stacks up against Apple’s iPhone 6 line

The premium design of Samsung's new Galaxy S6 devices is good enough to keep Android defectors from switching to iOS. Whether it converts iOS users into Android users remains to be seen.

EU data protection reform ‘badly broken,’ civil liberty groups warn

Aruba all-in-one box simplifies branch office communications

The 7000 series combines a host of capabilities into a single unit, featuring a stateful firewall, deep packet inspection, WAN optimization, RF interference control and user access control.

Is the Samsung Galaxy S6 a true iPhone 6 killer?

Which of the two is the best smartphone on the planet?

Google, Apple $415M deal with tech workers heads for approval