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Crashing Apple’s iOS 8 party

Mobile apps performance management company Crittercism finds iOS 8 is outcrashing iOS 7 on iPhones and iPads in a big way so far.

How to ensure the success of your private PaaS project

Lenovo to cough up $100 refunds, $250 vouchers to settle IdeaPad suit

Early iPhone 6 usage 8x higher than iPhone 6 Plus

Signals big tilt toward sales of 4.7-in. model; no shocker since the 6 Plus is impossible to find

Pertino adds management, tracking apps to its service

Ericsson acquires majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance

Delve, Office Graph must transcend Office 365 to be revolutionary

EMC reportedly held merger talks with Hewlett-Packard

Here are the limits of Apple’s iOS 8 privacy features

Apple's new passcode-based encryption for the iPhone and iPad can be circumvented and provides only limited protection to data

Brocade unveils OpenDaylight SDN controller

Open source SDN controller is commercial distribution of OpenDaylight Project code

Do’s and don’ts of using social media in your job search

IEEE standards group wants to bring order to IoT

InfiniDB going out of business, but its database will live on as open source

Key Cisco defections in data center, OpenStack

Company loses two high-profile people to VMware, HP

FCC questions how to enforce net neutrality rules

Shut out on iPhone 6 Plus, buyers settle for smaller version

Some customers lined up for hours to buy the larger 6 Plus, only to be disappointed that the stores didn't have any

New iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are easier to repair

iPhone 6's battery 16% more powerful than last year's iPhone 5S, says iFixit

SAP CEO Bill McDermott on why Concur is worth $8.3 billion

iPhone 6 review roundup – the raves come quietly

As the iPhone 6 series hits store shelves overall reaction is probably best characterized as a “eh, they’re pretty good.”

Alibaba shares open at a high $92.70

New organization sets out to make secure communication tools more user-friendly

Tim Cook launches iPhone 6 sales in Palo Alto

HP leapfrogs Red Hat to become top contributor to OpenStack

There’s a new top dog in terms of contributions to OpenStack.

Screen size matters to Apple fans in line for the iPhone 6

Apple’s iOS 8 fixes enterprise Wi-Fi authentication hijacking issue

IT Outsourcing Market Far From Stable

IT services deal activity was steady in the second quarter, but the IT and business process outsourcing industry is undergoing significant shifts as customers fire existing providers, ink shorter deals and embrace emerging technologies.

Why CSO pay is too low in San Francisco, New York

CSOs get paid more in San Francisco and New York, but they can live better in Chicago and Denver

Ping Identity picks up $35 million more in venture funding

Will fund identity management R&D, expansion in Europe and Asia-Pacific

Oracle’s Larry Ellison downshifts, but leadership remains the same

The same three leaders at Oracle continue on, though their roles change

iPhone 6 expected to fetch over $3,000 in China’s grey market

New US Senate bill aims to limit access to emails stored abroad

Malicious advertisements distributed by DoubleClick, Zedo networks

Google to turn on encryption by default in next Android version

CloudFlare can provide its caching service without your SSL keys

Ig Nobels 2014: Bacon-stuffed nostrils, polar bear costumes & the science of dog doo

Wacky as ever, 2014 Ig Nobels celebrate the strangest science out there

Larry Ellison’s best zingers: a look back

Mysterious entity acquires TwitPic, saving it from death

Alibaba’s IPO could be ‘open sesame’ for global expansion

SAP buying Concur for $8.3 billion to boost cloud portfolio

Ex-Ambitel/GreenNet CEO jumps ship to Sierra Leone’s Smart Mobile

Qualcomm shows its Snapdragon 810 in action

Microsoft boards-up research lab amid more layoffs

Downsizing closes Microsoft Research facility in Mountain View, Calif.

Virginia Tech researchers devise traffic app to rival weather apps

Algorithm used to predict traffic snarls along the way

Facebook turns its feed into a popularity contest

Pink slips rain down on Microsoft

Auditor: Healthcare.gov still lacks some basic security controls

Shareholders approve Safaricom acquisition of YuMobile

Apple delivers final non-security Mavericks update

Four weeks before Yosemite's slated to ship, company addresses reliability issues and patches 45 OS X bugs

Apple Lays Out Its Social Media Aspirations

Apple tried to make it in social media years ago, and it doesn’t plan to revive that fantasy any time soon, says CEO Tim Cook. Cook does, however, offer his thoughts on Google, Facebook and Twitter – and he doesn't hold back when it comes to Apple’s

Report: Bad communication among defense agencies makes China hacks more dangerous

It’s not enough to discover intrusions, the right people have to be told about them