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Google, Facebook combined for 50% of mobile ad revenues in 2014

Facebook's quick rise in mobile ad revenue has left the impression that it is crushing Google. Not quite; Google still holds the lead.

Anthem hack: Personal data stolen sells for 10X price of stolen credit card numbers

Crooks will use the information to steal identities, not just run up credit card bills.

Microsoft hopes to make hybrid clouds less scary with more extensive testing

Sharing mass surveillance data was illegal but is now OK, UK tribunal rules

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, February 6

New iOS spy app listens in to conversations

Researchers discover an iOS app that spies on users

How Google Glass could still see consumer success

Though Google's Glass at Work partner companies focus primarily on the enterprise, many still see a future in the consumer world, despite Google's recent decision to pull out of the market.

ClusterHQ: Bringing the power of containers to enterprise data

Verizon blames net neutrality plans as it sells off wireline operations

Uber, Lyft face licensing regulations in Massachusetts

Tech Ad Watch: CTIA makes dumb, poorly-staged video to protest Title II

We’re all totally happy with the way things are – right, gang?

Defections to ARM hurt PowerPC, MIPS

Red Hat jabs at VMware’s “one cloud” strategy calling it “flawed”

Red Hat is picking a fight with VMware

IBM brings more Watson smarts to developers

After Wheeler unveils proposal, what’s next for net neutrality?

VCE’s first big post-EMC takeover move beefs up the V and E

Breaking down the impact of the VCE Foundation for Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud.

With employee help, ID theft ring allegedly stole $700,000 in Apple gift cards

What to know for an entry-level interview at Amazon … and ‘The Tale of Two Packets’

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the rebirth of satellite Internet

The Internet, coming to a sky near you

More railguns and lasers, less gunpowder — the Navy’s future high-tech weaponry

You’ve got to get us off gunpowder, Navy admiral says

How wireless carriers prepared for Super Bowl XLIX

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile all saw a heavy increase in data use at Super Bowl XLIX.

Three fights Big Telecom is losing – and what that might mean for IT

Will public policy reverses have an effect on business customers?

Google could boost education push with Launchpad Toys acquisition

How design and experience drive enterprise technology adoption

Yves Behar spoke recently about how critical design is to technology adoption, a reality that applies to enterprise products as well.

Microsoft kicks off preview of Office for Windows 10

Windows users finally get a chance to try out touch apps -- three-and-a-half years after Microsoft touted them

Southern California Edison IT workers ‘beyond furious’ over H-1B replacements

About 500 IT jobs are cut at utility through layoffs and voluntary departures

Insurance giant Anthem discloses huge customer and employee data breach

Income data, Social Security numbers, names and addresses were stolen

Some hackers are unknowingly gathering intel for the NSA

US takes another shot at stopping warrantless reading of emails

Under Armour buys two fitness apps, builds trove of health data

Ulbricht found guilty of all charges in Silk Road case

Dell, EMC, VMware and others get giddy over converged infrastructure

What started as a niche market has blossomed into a multi-billion industry led by IT heavyweights

New spyware targets iOS devices, steals pictures and data

Russian hackers have a foothold in Sony Pictures’ network, security firm says

Now the FTC has its say on hotel Wi-Fi

Federal Trade Commission warns consumers about public Wi-Fi dangers

App for business users lets you share sensitive documents — then they disappear

How Vivaldi compares with, and improves upon, other web browsers

Former Opera exec offers up a Chrome-based browser with some power-user features.

Cisco: big mobile traffic coming

23 daily images per person on Earth for a year in 2019

Penn & Teller talk magic and technology … today and back in 1999

Cisco offers ACI alternative for Nexus 9000 switches

BGP Control Plane for VXLAN uses Ethernet VPN for multitenancy, scalability

FCC chairman says broadband should be treated as utility for net neutrality

FCC chairman outlines strong Internet protections

Wheeler's modern Title II approach would prevent rate regulation of providers

How a lake’s microbes can power fuel cells

Future-fuel bio-hydrogen has a new generating plant: a sleepy salt lake in Washington.

Scareware found hidden in Google Play apps downloaded by millions

China demands use of real names in social media accounts

EU data protection authorities get serious about Facebook’s privacy policy

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

ARM taps China to bring chip designs to emerging markets

Microsoft .Net’s execution engine goes open source

Microsoft opens up further with the release of CoreCLR, the execution engine in .Net Core

Hack to cost Sony $35 million in IT repairs