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Retain private data for police use or face $685,000 fine, Swedish authority tells ISP

Tim Cook to explore tie-up with China’s Alibaba on Apple Pay

Microsoft opens Office 365 to programmers

Apple Pay saw 1 million activations in first three days

Clues point to Russia in long-running spying campaign

ARM to bring 4K to smartphones, tablets with new GPUs

Bing lets you dig behind the smiley face with emoji search

Central African Backbone project faces possible budget shortfall

Feds set to destroy H-1B records

Records that are critical to research and take up a microscopic amount of storage are set for deletion

NoSQL takes the database market by storm

The NoSQL database market is a small but increasingly important segment of the database market, and it’s giving SQL database vendors and users a scare

Fire your mobile app programmer and build it yourself

255 terabits a second: New fiber speed record?

Multi-strand technology may herald a speedy new world.

Your next fridge could charge all your mobile devices

Haier, the world’s largest home appliance maker, plans to embed area wireless chargers

Suse enterprise Linux can take your system back in time

Everspin deal with Global Foundries may push MRAM chips to production faster

Vulnerability in widely used ‘strings’ utility could spell trouble for malware analysts

Internet tax brings Hungarian protesters into streets

CheckCell promises to finger all-too-common Excel spreadsheet errors

UMass researchers apply "threshold of unusualness" to spot Excel problems

Wireless price war’s good for consumers, but challenges carriers

Profits are in doubt at big carriers, posing concerns about long-term network, spectrum investments

Dell takes one last shot at selling Windows 7 Home Premium PCs

As Microsoft's Oct. 31 deadline looms, world's No. 3 OEM touts 'Windows 7 for the win' and discounts consumer PCs

Big Switch rolls out SDN starter kits

Software-defined networking tools designed for cloud, big data, virtualization projects.

For big raises in IT, look to mobile, security, big data

Twitter keeps alive Twitpic domain and photo archive

Tor Project flags Russian ‘exit node’ server for delivering malware

Wi-Fi Passpoint standard now knits together SF, San Jose, London

FCC pushes TV spectrum auction to 2016 after legal challenge

The ratings: Most net neutrality groups get poor grades for funding transparency

Apple Pay tops Tim Cook’s to-do list in China

Secretive funding fuels ongoing net neutrality astroturfing controversy

Advocacy groups accused of obscuring corporate ties in net neutrality debate

RiteAid blocks Apple Pay, Google Wallet

Senator wants Whisper to explain how it tracks users, shares their data

Neural networks draw on context to improve machine translations

One missed email and Google Inbox will be in trouble

Will users trust Google to prioritize their emails?

The ‘Backoff’ malware linked to data breaches is spreading

LG wades into processor development with G3 Screen

China develops its first homegrown server amid cybersecurity concerns

Cyberespionage group launches sophisticated phishing attacks against Outlook Web App users

Microsoft to continue using Nokia brand on entry-level phones

Adobe begins encrypting user data collected from Digital Editions app

Amazon builds sales, but losses pile up

Apple Pay’s next move could be phone-to-phone payments

Oracle says state wanted to take ‘unacceptable risk’ with health care website transition

Microsoft Q1 sales jump, but Nokia drags down earnings

Canonical celebrates cloud freedoms with new Ubuntu

Facebook and Yahoo prevent use of recycled email addresses to hijack accounts

Facebook hopes to get people talking — using whatever name — with Rooms app

Microsoft exec opens up about Research lab closure, layoffs

"We feel with you the sense of loss that has been evoked by the closing of our Silicon Valley lab"

Wearable health devices are a novelty that wear off

Few use them every day and many abandon them after a year

Researchers use silicon to push quantum computing toward reality

New tech could let quantum machines tackle huge problems