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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

Amazon Web Services opens German location to ease privacy concerns

Akamai sees record-setting spikes in size and volume of DDoS attacks

Amazon launches German cloud region in nod to privacy concerns

German region is 11th for AWS, some of whose customers seek to avoid potential U.S. data snooping

Amazon takes aim at Microsoft’s Active Directory with new service

Abandoned subdomains pose security risk for businesses

Chicago takes top spot in mobile performance ranking

L.A. ranks 111th, with New York 98th in RootMetrics tests

IBM’s chip business sale gets national security scrutiny

GlobalFoundries is already talking over security issues with the U.S. government

IBM and Microsoft pledge to make their clouds compatible

HP gives Moonshot server its first Xeon chip

Future points to healthcare IT as a Service

Adopting social, mobile, analytics and cloud technology should save healthcare providers money in the long run. It should also help them use their EHR systems as a service, according to a joint report from EMC and MeriTalk.

Vintage Apple-1 sells for a record $905K

The Ford Foundation buys the computer Woz made, plans to display it in a Michigan museum

What Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said in Mandarin that so impressed the Chinese

Vietnam police hunt hackers behind mass outage

Apple to stop SSL 3.0 support for push notifications soon

Xiaomi moving data outside China following privacy concerns

At Austin airport, Wi-Fi predicts how long the security line will be

Twitter weaves Fabric, but will developers be drawn in?

Government regulation on cloud security may spur SaaS use in health care

Debian community splits over systemd, but fork still unlikely

UNIX admins threaten to fork Debian if systemd makes it into next version

Some Bank of America customers double-charged with Apple Pay

Google to build Play-like hardware store for Project Ara