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HP’s radical new Machine could start computing by 2016

Air Force envisioning swarms of tiny, inexpensive, almost disposable drones

Unmanned aircraft would flock together to protect assets, gather information

Apologetic Microsoft unleashes Xim globally for Android, Win Phone

iOS 8 app crash rate falls 25% since release

Apple's first major update, iOS 8.1, sports an even lower app crash rate.

FCC: A range of net neutrality options remain on the table

Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced to 3.5 years imprisonment in Denmark

BlackBerry upgrades BBM with timed messages

Facebook sets up shop on the Tor anonymity network

Number of new IT outsourcing deals hits all-time high

The multisourcing trend continues in an increasingly competitive market while government spending on outsourcing now outpaces that of the private sector, according to a report by outsourcing consultancy Information Services Group.

Microsoft endorses workaround for botched Windows patch KB 3000061

Two weeks after users offered a fix for the MS 14-058/KB 3000061 kernel mode driver installation problem, Microsoft confirms it works

Hungary ditches Internet tax plans after protests

Sony’s new mobile chief has hands full as handsets struggle

IBM joins Tencent to target China’s growing enterprise cloud market

Samsung attacks Chinese rivals with new mid-range Galaxy phones

FCC’s Wheeler said to mull hybrid approach to net neutrality

Major banks ready their own mobile payment apps

Android creator Andy Rubin leaving Google

Zuckerberg to connect with regular folk in first ‘community Q&A’

RCA gives unexpected boost to tablet market in Q3

Facebook’s Internet.org app launches in East Africa

Vulnerabilities found in more command-line tools, wget and tnftp get patches

Republican gains in Congress would have limited impact on big tech issues

Hurricane fails to stir Bacardi’s business continuity plan

Dealing with hurricanes on the British island has become old hat for Bacardi's staff

What you should know about Lenovo’s Motorola acquisition

Sencha melds desktop and smartphone management with Space

Microsoft releases stopgap POODLE protection for Internet Explorer

Next Patch Tuesday is Nov. 11, but a Fixit tool disables SSL 3.0 in the meantime

Microsoft adds IoT, Big Data orchestration services to Azure

Looking to expand on the big data capabilities of its cloud platform, Microsoft has introduced Internet of Things streaming analytics, data production and workflow services for Azure.

Drupal: If you weren’t quick to patch, assume your site was hacked

Smartphone share of overall mobile phone sales stalling at 70 percent

Pirate Bay co-founder found guilty of hacking in Denmark

Power tools company uses marketing analytics to compete with Big Box stores

Big Data tools to combine internal and external information helps determine how to counteract the marketing muscle of Home Depot and Lowe's.

Germany backs plan to retain personal flight data across EU

The Charge of the Troll Brigade: What to know about #GamerGate

Actually, it's not about ethics

Startup Capriza scores $27M to Zapp legacy apps into mobile ones

Former Mercury Interactive execs bring new life to legacy enterprise apps for the BYOD and mobile crowd

China: Facebook not banned, but must follow the rules

Samsung eyes cheaper smartphones as profit slumps

China’s Xiaomi surges to become world’s third largest smartphone vendor

Baidu traffic from mobile devices now more than from PCs

Visualizations may shape smarter city development

How to figure out if a data breach is a hoax

MCX says CurrentC is less about tech, more about relationships

Movie industry yells ‘Cut!’ on wearables in theaters

Microsoft ‘almost’ wraps up largest layoff sweep in its history

Cybercriminals create platform for automating rogue credit card charges

BitYota cloud data warehouse gets a boost from Microsoft Azure

FTC: Operator of dating sites lured customers with fake profiles

Cleveland Clinic uses IBM’s Watson in the cloud to fight cancer

Researchers will use cognitive computing to study the human genome to find personalized cancer treatments

Cisco, others pushing 2.5G, 5G Ethernet

Companies look to fill gap between 1G and 10G on existing copper

Motorola Droid Turbo: four things wrong and four things right

Twitter, IBM form partnership around analytic apps