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Samsung, Xiaomi drive phablet growth, but Apple likely waits in the wings

The Russian-made tool that grabs nude selfies from iCloud accounts

Salesforce.com says wearables push is catching on with customers, partners

Foxconn invests in building electric cars in China

Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler gets deeper into ride-sharing

Microsoft offers free help for new Office 365 rollouts

The curve on Samsung’s Galaxy Note Edge actually makes sense

Box to beef up cloud storage with workflow engine

Container party: VMware, Microsoft, Cisco and Red Hat all get in on app hoopla

Containers: Buzzword du jour, or game-changing technology?

Attack hijacks DNS settings on home routers in Brazil

Isis Wallet mobile payment service changes its name to Softcard

The Galaxy Note 4 is Samsung’s best smartphone yet

Embarcadero developers write once to multiple platforms

Verizon settles FCC consumer privacy investigation

Skyhigh Networks provides first stop in cloud security

A file sent from a mobile device to Box can first be inspected by Symantec, McAfee, EMC RSA data-loss prevention systems.

Samsung banks on super-resolution screens for Galaxy Note 4, Note Edge

Insurers will now be able to track driver behavior via smartphones

Privacy concerns may be an issue once the car is connected via a smartphone

Teradata continues big data buying spree, scoops up Think Big Analytics

Lenovo launches its first Intel-powered Android tablet

Pricing starts at $199; tablet will go on sale this month

IE users in no rush to discard old versions after Microsoft’s support-stoppage mandate

Nearly 70% of current IE users must upgrade to a newer IE -- or switch browsers -- in the next 16 months

Email Security Still a Struggle for Most Companies

Banks and social media firms have taken steps to protect their customers from email scams, according to recent research. However, the travel and healthcare industries remain vulnerable. All the more troubling: Spam and phishing show no signs of going

China’s Baidu shows off alternative to Google Glass, without optical display

US court approves eBay settlement over no-hire agreement

Samsung acquires cloud printing company PrinterOn

Latest Firefox version adds protection against rogue SSL certificates

Appeals court clears Yelp of claims that it fixed reviews

Google to build quantum computing processors

VMWorld 2014: Winners and Losers

Mobile computing, OpenStack and containers win, NSX, vCloud Air details too thin at VMware show.

Linux kernel developer arrested in Russia

Dmitry Monakhov apparently jailed for public protest against Ukraine conflict.

Home Depot investigates possible payment data breach

Sony joins AllSeen Alliance to push for common ground in IoT

Groups: FCC shouldn’t overturn state laws against municipal broadband

Apple blames leaked nude celebrity photos on ‘targeted attack’

Apple’s OS X Yosemite gets big start thanks to public beta

3% of all Macs -- about 2.6 million machines -- already run Yosemite, says analytics vendor

Celebrity nude photos scandal a wake-up call for cloud users

If photos were stolen during a cloud hack, enterprises may be more skittish over cloud use

“Outraged” Apple issues update on celebrity cellphone nude photo breach

Apple claims iCloud not breached as part of attack on celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton

Hackers make drive-by download attacks stealthier with fileless infections

Compuware switches to private ownership

NIST issues Best Practices on how to best use Secure Shell software

NIST’s drafted recommendations warn sys admins of pitfalls in SSH use that give attackers the advantage.

Mapping the cloud: Where does the public cloud actually live?

A map of the biggest cloud computing data centers in the U.S.

Amid dueling lawsuits, state needs Oracle’s help with health-insurance site transition

First mobile device with MIPS 64-bit processor coming in 2016

Netgear boosts Nighthawk router with X4 model

Dual-band 802.11ac router features dynamic QoS and speedy 1.4GHz processor

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Aug. 30

Mobile payments, NFC, charger redesign, memory misery.

In earthquakes, alerts may turn machines into action heroes

Earthquake warnings, automated shutdowns are all part of future

Industrial software website used in watering hole attack

Criminals are pushing a reconnaissance toolkit instead of malware

Windows 8’s uptake climbs but still trails Vista’s

Windows 7 flat for first time in six months

Uber vows to defy German ban on its UberPop ride-sharing service

Four smartphone OSs fighting for survival

BlackBerry, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS take different approaches to staying alive.

Namecheap says accounts compromised in hacking incident