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A wireless router may someday charge your mobile devices

Energous’ RF charging router can be embedded in any object, so it's out of sight and mind

Microsoft buys Minecraft maker Mojang for $2.5 billion

7 reasons Apple should open-source Swift — and 7 reasons it won’t

Federal CIOs Must Reframe Security Around Data, Access

An ambitious government IT push toward cloud, mobile and shared services stokes concerns about security challenges from insider threats and disappearing network boundaries.

Netflix will launch on French telco’s set-top boxes

Google debuts first low-cost Android One phones in India

Sprint, Windstream traffic routing errors hijacked other ISPs

Oracle to acquire content storage management company Front Porch Digital

California regulators say Uber, Lyft and Sidecar’s car-pool services are illegal

Apple bungles iPhone 6 pre-orders

Online store unavailable, supplies of the iPhone 6 Plus quickly vanish

Google RSS death creates $1.3M business

VMware and Cisco patch vulnerabilities in data-center gear and software

10 years in tech: The crazy cellphone ideas of 2004

Skype version for broadcasters released to manufacturers

Google offers $100,000 cloud credit for startups

Harvard’s CompSci intro course boasts record-breaking enrollment

CS50 enrollment blows by Economics at Harvard as CompSci earning potential wins converts

Microsoft urges African authorities to combat counterfeit phone imports

Kenya takes lead in booming African mobile money market

Google acquires online survey specialist Polar

Swedish ISP urges European Commission to end ‘illegal data retention’

Data protection authorities find privacy lapses in majority of mobile apps

Sony launches security cameras that see in the dark

New standard for ZigBee remotes makes friends with connected homes

Yahoo says it faced $250,000 daily fines for defying US surveillance requests

LA TV stations free up airwaves for wireless broadband

HP buys cloud provider Eucalyptus, Marten Mickos to lead HP Cloud

Dropbox reports a steady rise in government data requests

SAP spices up its predictive analytics and visualization apps

Senators ask Apple, Home Depot for information on breaches

New survey raises questions about net neutrality regulation, advocacy group says

SDN market could hit $18B by 2018

Almost 200% growth in 2013 in in-use and SDN-capable gear.

How Apple Pay could make the Target and Home Depot breaches a thing of the past

Funny videos about iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

Going through iPhone 6 and Apple Watch rumor withdrawal? Yuck it up with these parody videos

Microsoft expanding Windows on Devices program

What you need to know about the Gmail password compromise

Five million hacked passwords dumped on Russian cybercrime forums

Amazon’s Fire Phone won’t have an easier time in Europe

County set to rip and replace troubled SAP software system

German court denies Uber’s request for suspension of nationwide ban

Vulnerability in popular Joomla e-commerce extension puts online shops at risk

BlackBerry’s researching a smartwatch, too

Future devices have to sell, but BlackBerry has a number of technologies up its sleeve

How Google’s tiff with certificate authorities can impact you

Certificate authorities are calling on Google to give websites more time to make security changes before issuing warnings through the Chrome browser

Lowe’s wants to be your smart home gateway

Retailers line up to sell smart lawnmowers and more Internet of Things hardware

Apple starts selling lower-cost iCloud storage, adds iCloud Drive to beta website

Issues refunds to some customers for pricier plans

India’s biometric ID project is back on track

Chinese regulator urges Qualcomm to help local companies make money

Dense server battle to heat up with Intel’s Xeon D next year

SAP, Ericsson team up for mobile management and apps

Coinbase expands Bitcoin services in Europe

T-Mobile takes Wi-Fi voice and text everywhere

OneDrive now allows files of up to 10GB