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Five years later, how is the Oracle-Sun marriage working out?

Larry Ellison promised to grow Sun products. Let's look at how well he kept those promises.

The world of containers doesn’t end with Docker

The open-source app containerization startup has built up quite a bit of momentum, but it's still not entirely ready for enterprise.

Dark fiber should fill residential broadband holes

Gaming and video needs low-latency pipes. Some say more existing dark fiber should be provisioned for residential use to thwart incumbent ISP service problems and price increases.

Why the SteelApp sale is a win-win for Brocade and Riverbed

The sale of SteelApp will help both companies focus on what they're good at.

How network admins can survive SDN

Prove the doomsayers wrong by maintaining the physical infrastructure, learning software building blocks

Apple and Tesla engaged in battle over talent

Alibaba props up mobile OS with investment in Chinese smartphone maker

Hackers target health care as industry goes digital

Are carriers trying to steal Wi-Fi’s spectrum? Not exactly

Privacy groups want investigation of big data acquisitions

Facebook is not going to like Dstrux

Get it now or lose out on Google’s Project Ara development kit

Steve Jobs gave Barack Obama a sneak peek at an iPhone prototype

In 2007, before the iPhone was unveiled to the world, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave President Barack Obama a sneak peak at the iconic smartphone.

DARPA moves closer to inexpensive jet-launched satellite system

Brocade acquires Riverbed ADC to bolster virtual delivery services

Virtual SteelApp software will augment Vyatta, Vistapointe offerings

Songs About Satellites

Facebook, Google, SpaceX, Virgin Galactic satellite Internet ventures inspire musical reflection

ICYMI Cloud news: IBM inks Marriott; Mongo’s new DB, and PaaS consolidation

In Case You Missed It: Recapping a busy week in the cloud

DDoS malware for Linux systems comes with sophisticated custom-built rootkit

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