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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

Startup proposes fiber-based Glass Core as a bold rethink of data center networking

Orange targets home applications with new mobile-to-TV gadgets and services

CBS Interactive CIO Says Shadow IT Is an Opportunity

By looking at the shadow IT that lines-of-business deploy and asking business leaders how it improves their business, IT organizations can gain a better understanding of what they can bring to the table to help the business succeed.

White House sets 20% data center efficiency goal, but finds few takers

Whether that target is too high, too low, or reasonable, the effort is voluntary

Researchers hope to diagnose deadly Ebola virus with nanotech

Small portable devices could make diagnoses easier in remote, under-served areas.

Is that used iPad actually stolen? Apple creates tool for would-be buyers to check

U.S. may be falling behind in researching tech’s next big thing

Is the U.S. serious about the Internet of Things?