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CA’s secret recipe: An organic engineering team

At CA World, CA's executives spoke about the company's emphasis on developing in-house engineering skills.

Pharma company prefers vertical industry cloud

A biotech company turns to a cloud service tailored to the specific needs of the life sciences industry--and its regulations

Yamaha joins all-in migration to the public cloud

Seeking to shift IT staff away from maintenance tasks to focus on innovation, Yamaha has dropped its hosted data center in favor of AWS.

Android Auto extends your phone to your car

At the auto show in Los Angeles last week, I got a chance to kick the tires on Android Auto, Google’s new automotive platform.

Report: Samsung’s head of TVs may be asked to revitalize mobile business

Webcam snooper now looking for a job

Traces of Regin malware may date back to 2006

Symantec identifies sophisticated, stealthy ‘Regin’ malware

A3, Advanced Adaptive Applications: The end of server malware and hacking?

A new container- and VM-based system promises to not only detect but also fix when the bad guys attack

Black Friday: Newegg axes prices on laptops, desktops, tablets and more

Dell, Asus, Lenovo, HP and Seagate computer products among those in Newegg Black Friday 2014 bargain bin

US man sentenced for hacking POS systems at Subway

IT modernization project makes the grade at North Carolina colleges

Fourteen community colleges (and counting) have replaced slow, aged infrastructure with power- and space-saving alternatives.

FCC chairman gives no timeline for net neutrality decision

Connected-home Babel: There’s an app for that, startup says

Why It Sometimes Makes Sense to Go Slow With Mobile Development

At nuclear plant builder Westinghouse, mobile app developers seek to avoid bugs that could lead to danger

Apple delivers another Yosemite beta as WiFi issues persist

Air Force evaluating high-frequency, focused mobile networks

Air Force says directional networks have high power potential, drawbacks

UpCloud bets on storage performance, US datacenter to dent market

Critical XSS flaws patched in WordPress and popular plug-in

Incapsula estimates DDoS attacks cost $40,000 per hour

Incapsula just published its 2014 DDoS Impact Report, and the vendor estimates the average DDoS attack costs the victim company $40,000 for every hour of outage, and most attacks last between 6 and 24 hours.

EU net neutrality legislation under threat from Italian proposals, says rights group

20+ Jaw-Dropping Black Friday 2014 Tech Deals

iPhone 6, iPad Air, Samsung Galaxy gear and big cheap TVs among the hottest electronic deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Google launching 20 Internet balloons per day

WebRTC close to tipping point as Cisco, Microsoft announce products

WebRTC has been in the works since Google released its project back in mid-2011

NotCompable sets new standards for mobile botnet sophistication

New variant uses P2P, reminiscent of Conficker

Grocers, retailers gobble up Apple Pay in time for holidays

Apple Pay's impact has been felt for just one month, but can it last?

Contain yourself: The layman’s guide to Docker

Don't worry, this article is self-contained.

Google, Rockstar reach deal to settle lawsuit over Nortel patents

NSA chief says cyberattacks on industrial systems are his top concern

Intel plans 3D NAND flash next year for ‘as much storage as you want’

Governments act against webcam-snooping websites

Facebook’s alternative PHP engine attracts Web service providers

Uber, facing public backlash, will rethink privacy

As Moore’s Law approaches 50, Intel battling to keep up

With sale to Africell, Orange starts to pull back from East Africa

AT&T to pay $23.8 million to settle California dumping complaint

Comcast app lets customers track service techs in real time

The app, being tested in Boston, is expected to roll out next year

SAP talks up Hana but small companies slow to sign on

Mozilla tells Google, it’s not you (anymore), it’s Yahoo

Analysts counter Mozilla's ideological explanation, see money behind Firefox's default to Yahoo

SDN groups respond to Cisco’s “game over”

ONF, ONUG take exception to Chambers' victory claims

Data exchange talks lag, jeopardizing US firms’ ability to operate in Europe

NSA director: No changes in telephone record collection coming

Citadel malware now targets password management applications

Black Friday: Microsoft slashing Surface, laptop, Xbox prices

Surface Pro 3, Dell and Acer laptops, Xbox bundles all marked down by Microsoft

Does being first in supercomputing still matter?

The goal of building an exascale system is compared to the U.S. effort to go to the moon

Why I am not deleting my Uber app

I no longer use Uber, but I would never delete the app.

Google Internet balloon drops in on farmer

Activists release Detekt tool that finds surveillance malware

Gartner’s cloud showdown: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure

AWS is the market-leader in the public cloud, but Azure is giving it a run for its money

Facebook bus drivers unionize amid concern about work conditions