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The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, January 29

Intel wants to banish cables, connectors with new Broadwell chips

US targets mobile operator for deceptive data promises

Samsung smartphone business sees profit slide, some hopes in DRAM

Congo restores Internet to banks, gov’t agencies but public block remains

Boosted by iPhone 6 sales, Apple ties with Samsung for top smartphone rank

New Chrome extension spots unencrypted tracking

Silk Road dealer found a hungry market for mail order drugs

Oracle Service Cloud gets more social

Cyberthreat sharing must include strong privacy protections, advocates say

Server upgrades coming

Driven by new Ethernet speeds and cloud services, market trackers predict churn

IBM’s SoftLayer chief departs amid cloud transition

OneDrive adds ‘Albums,’ will soon add automatic photo import from PC

Silk Road paid thousands in shake-downs from malicious hackers

AWS launches WorkMail for the enterprise

Amazon Web Services is trying to sell more enterprise apps, like Microsoft and Google

Was Apple’s strong quarter built on iPhone upgrades?

The number of new customers Apple created last quarter is as important as its record-setting financial performance.

Kdenlive review: The Linux video editor I want to use

EU air passenger database about to take flight, but critics want it grounded

FAA warns drone owners: Stay away from the Super Bowl

FAA says just “Leave your drone at home”

Canadian agency reported to be monitoring millions of downloads

Good wants to manage your smartphones for $3 a month, per user

Blackphone super-secure communications app had serious flaw

Big Switch updates SDN controller options

Big Cloud Fabric 2.5 supports VMware vSphere, Dell switches

Alibaba clashes with Chinese regulator over online sales of fake goods

Wi-Fi growth set to drive sales of new Ethernet speeds

Twenty-eight percent of security spending wasted on shelfware

The average organization spent $115 per user on security-related software last year, but $33 of it was underutilized or not used at all

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, January 28

The Internet of Things requires the Internet of Everywhere

Is the cloud ready for the Internet of Things?

Androids will greet guests at Japanese smart hotel

Flying high, Apple readies Watch to ship in April

‘Ghost’ vulnerability poses high risk to Linux distributions

Microsoft previews free, updated Power BI business intelligence tool

FCC calls blocking of personal Wi-Fi hotspots “disturbing trend”

Vows that no more Marriott-like Wi-Fi blocking schemes will be tolerated

Snapchat and Twitter violate each other’s personal space

Google Fiber expanding to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham

The company is still exploring five other areas for future rollouts

New SAP Hana tool aims to put Big Data insights within closer reach

This devops company just got a big, $23.5M VC round

CloudBees was once a PaaS company but now it’s all in on devops

Enterprises can now use Dell’s Kace appliance to manage Chromebooks

Will the U.S. be ready with secure chip cards and payment terminals?

Adoption is either 'impressive' or 'so behind,' depending on whom you ask

FTC: Best Practices for businesses facing Internet of Things onslaught

FTC report finds security, privacy issues should be addressed sooner rather than later

FTC calls on IoT vendors to protect privacy

Apple iOS 8.1.3 upgrade won’t suck up your storage

Latest iPhone, iPad software update includes security, performance, stability fixes

Mobile World Congress rumor mill churns with reports of better screens, cameras

FTC’s unrealistic Internet of Things report calls for smaller data

The FTC issued a report on Internet of Things privacy and security that only highlights how unresolved the issue still is.

PCI DSS 3.0 went into effect Jan. 1. Are you in compliance?

There are many changes, and some companies may not realize they are now out of sync

Cisco brings Meraki to the enterprise

Making use of once widely questioned acquisition, Cisco is expanding the role of Meraki in its portfolio.

Mass surveillance ‘endangers fundamental human rights,’ says study

Cisco’s evolving software, cloud strategy will hinge on hardware

New licensing strategy will use installed hardware base as the “real estate” on which to build

Java is the biggest vulnerability for US computers

Oracle's Java poses the single biggest security risk to US desktops, says a new report

How Facebook stimulates the economy and creates millions of jobs

According to a Facebook-commissioned report from Deloitte, the world's largest social network stimulated $227 billion in economic impact and created 4.5 million jobs across the globe in 2014.