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iPhone 6 Plus accounts for about 20% of new iPhones

Hard-to-find 5.5-in. smartphone makes gains against smaller sibling in the last two weeks

Facebook’s purchase of WhatsApp a done deal at $22 billion

Redfish spec wiggles servers free from vendor lock-in

HP users say corporate split might work

The surprise news of HP’s division wins qualified praise from enterprise customers

Should you buy an HP PC after the plan to split?

Skype appears to bow to Indian rules, ends in-country calls to local networks

Top 10 tips for Windows 10

You need to know these behind-the-scenes tricks to get the most out of the current Windows Technical Preview

As Africa Internet penetration lags, experts suggest ways to spur broadband growth

Nigeria to license seven infrastructure companies to spur broadband

European Commission told to publish UK mass Internet surveillance docs

Toshiba shows glasses with embedded display

OS X Yosemite’s pre-launch growth slows

About 4% of all Macs ran the unfinished OS in September

It’s official: HP will break itself in two

Samsung to invest $14.7 billion in new fab

Google to put guards on payroll, amid concerns about inequality

HP reportedly set to split off PC, printer business

JPMorgan Chase attackers hacked other banks, report says

Samsung paid Microsoft $1 billion last year to build Android phones

IBM set to sell Elastic Storage in a Power-based box

Syme, a social network that promised Ello-like privacy, has gone dark

Microsoft takes the hassle out of Office 365 email encryption

More notable Cisco departures

Enterprise routing, IWAN groups see a couple top people leave

Microsoft reveals biggest-ever change in Windows updates

President Obama honors standout computer scientists with National Medals

Winners of National Medals of Science and Technology and Innovation are announced

How Netflix survived the Amazon EC2 reboot

Apple signals Oct. 21 as OS X Yosemite launch date

Company likes to announce OS X releases on its financial earnings calls; it will reveal its third-quarter sales numbers on Oct. 20.

Price tag for troubled SAP project will skyrocket to nearly $1 billion, audit says

European probe clears telcos of throttling Internet service

Marriott must pay $600,000 for blocking personal Wi-Fi hotspots

White House Cybersecurity Plans Hinge on Industry Dialogue

October has been designated Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it started with an appeal from the Obama administration for closer collaboration with businesses on cyber threats.

Tools for creating malicious USB thumb drives released by security researchers

Cloud price cuts are nice but enterprises still want more

After Google cut cloud prices this week, other vendors expected to follow suit

H-1B whistleblower files new federal lawsuit

Infosys is facing a second federal lawsuit that cites Sarbanes-Oxley's whistleblower protections

Android browser flaw found to leak data

The vulnerability enables a hacker to run JavaScript from a website to steal data from web pages open in other browser tabs

States worry about ability to hire IT security pros

As the tentacles of Facebook’s data spread, privacy questions resurface

IBM pumping more horsepower into Watson successors

JPMorgan Chase breach affected 83 million customers

Cisco, Acer, others join Intel-backed IoT standards group

Facebook’s new research guidelines don’t impress the professionals

Startups look to eliminate routers, switches

Compass-EOS and Fiber Mountain say their SDN products can replace more expensive gear

Harvard Business Publishing learns some lessons about work in the cloud

Google’s open source blueprint lets connected devices commune without specialized apps

Google Physical Web plan could be mainstay for Internet of Things communications

How to avoid an Oracle ERP upgrade disaster

Groups accuse FCC of helping net neutrality advocates file comments

Microsoft’s custom Windows OS now on Galileo Gen2 board

Ericsson releases WebRTC browser and framework as open source

Booksellers raise Amazon monopoly concerns with European Commission

Group’s numbers opposed to net neutrality smaller than suggested

Artificial intelligence system can predict data theft by scanning email