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EU wants Google to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ delistings to global .com domain

US lawmakers to Europe: Don’t break up Google

For HP, splitting up maybe isn’t so bad for its cloud

One analyst says HP splitting up could be good for its cloud

Hacking Team surveillance malware masquerades as legitimate bookmark manager

EarthLink Launches Hosted Contact Center

EarthLink has launched its new Hosted Contact Center solution supporting multichannel engagement with features that include chat, email, voice and social media interactions.

UK network BT mulls mobile return to fuel quad-play competition

Microsoft fingered as company forced to pay $136M in back taxes in China

Kraken to help probe missing bitcoins in MtGox liquidation

UN committee calls on countries to protect right to privacy

Home Depot spent $43 million on data breach in just one quarter

Breaking up is hard to do, but HP won’t look back

Apple announces Black Friday sale

San Francisco DA pushes for chip payment cards in tech’s backyard

Ebola speeds up educators’ embrace of tech in Sierra Leone, Liberia

Convert your car into a 2-ton video game console: What could go wrong?

Peter Thiel’s 3 critical decisions for startups

At DEMO Fall 2014, legendary investor Peter Thiel told entrepreneurs to resist convention in founding a business.

Google delays demise of old-style Chrome plug-ins

Browser will now drop NPAPI plug-in support in September 2015

Tablet craze calms down as iPad shipments decline

DT and Informatica service links cloud, on-premises apps, data

NASA sets huge $5M cubesat competition

$5 million purse is NASA’s largest Centennial Challenge offering to date

Monster snow: How Buffalo-area businesses kept things going in the storm

The recent massive storm in Buffalo meant just another day at the office - or actually at home - for many area employees. That's because storm-hearty Northerners say their systems are ready for whatever Mother Nature throws at them

Internet of Things helps asthma patients breathe easily

Medical device company Aerocrine, which specializes in devices that help physicians diagnose and monitor asthma, is using new IoT-focused services from Microsoft Azure Cloud Services to reduce device downtime and help its sales and customer support t

Bitdefender security appliance for home networks seeks to replace end-point antivirus

Pew poll: Limited knowledge on privacy policies, more on net neutrality

UK faults tech firm for not alerting authorities before soldier’s murder

60 things European legislators don’t want Canada to learn about air passengers

Next-gen car maps will be nowhere near the center stack

Look for a change in the automobile speedometer cluster, because maps will be appearing there soon.

5 PCI Compliance gaps

Here are five areas were merchants need to pay attention

Microsoft cold-shoulders Server 2003 and XP users hit with Microsoft Update error 0x80248015

Microsoft has yet to provide a solution for customers who can't connect to Microsoft Update to install last week's out-of-band patch KB 3011780

New IBM service shines a light on mobile device and app performance

Regin malware linked to attacks on Belgacom, well-known cryptographer

Jolla’s open-source tablet might actually stay the course

Finnish firm’s Linux-based tablet looks like a tenable alternative to Apple iPads and Android devices.

Big IT vendors mostly mum on commercial drone plans

Reports say FAA could take very hard line on commercial drone use

Regin is groundbreaking malware on par with Stuxnet, Symantec says

Its sophistication implies it was written by a national government

IoT in the enterprise up three-fold, study finds

300%+ increase in deployments in two years, study finds.

NSA privacy director defends agency’s surveillance

Slack now letting employers tap workers’ private chats

Five top tips for Android 5.0 Lollipop

Here's how to get more out of the latest version of Android.

Would Amazon Web Services ever build an on-premise private cloud?

‘Never say never’, but it’s not in the cards, AWS VP says

AMD tablet development stalls as priorities change

SMBs get their very own Salesforce app store

Breaking up Google is just one possible antritrust option, EU lawmakers say

Segmenting for security: Five steps to protect your network

Thwarting attackers with threat intelligence

5 essentials of effective cloud data integration, a customer perspective

Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus now guarded by Daleks

Once again, science fiction predicts the future, as spooky robots will patrol the campus.

Global Forum: Innovation creates opportunity, causes disruption

‘Less’ means more to malware authors targeting Linux users

4 surprising tech trends we should be thankful for

Some things IT professionals think are problems actually bring significant benefits that we should learn to appreciate.

UK plans to introduce new Web snooping law