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Attack campaign infects industrial control systems with BlackEnergy malware

Europe’s top court to rule on whether IP addresses are personal data

LG smartphone sales soar, boosted by G3

China’s Xiaomi defends itself from Apple copycat claims

Gigamon says it can analyze attacker SSL traffic without hitting performance

Hackers target unclassified White House network

Facebook: $15 billion of WhatsApp’s value is based on what it could be

Study blames backbone business deals for broadband congestion

Facebook sales, driven by mobile, shoot up nearly 60 percent

Droid Turbo’s long battery life, new tech offset weight

HTML5 finalized, finally

Google’s new Fit app plays well with Strava, Runkeeper and others

FTC: AT&T promised unlimited data, but throttled mobile customers

Office 365 is getting management features for iOS, Android and Windows Phone

When it comes to mobile, IT is out of touch

Appcelerator's latest report on mobile trends shows that developers and IT shops see things differently

IBM sends Cognos, SPSS to the cloud

Security vendor coalition cleans 43,000 malware infections used for cyberespionage

Google enlists PwC to push Apps, Android, cloud computing to businesses

Microsoft leans on data-center strength to get cloud edge

EMC snaps up three startups to help build hybrid clouds

Commercial pilots group concerned over Amazon drone safety

Microsoft fires new shot in storage wars, gives Office 365 users unlimited OneDrive

'Marketing ploy,' first and foremost, says analyst, but there's more to the strategy than keeping up with the Joneses

‘ScanBox’ keylogger targets Uyghurs, US think tank, hospitality industry

Speedboats race with the cloud

SilverHook Powerboats uses a private cloud to analyze and visualize racing data in real-time -- at 140 miles an hour

CEO Tim Cook calls merchants’ refusal to accept Apple Pay a ‘skirmish’

'We're just getting started,' says Cook of mobile point-of-sale payment service

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