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‘Biochip’ aims to quicken disease diagnosis, cut medical test costs

AMD mulls custom ARM 64-bit server chips

Study finds firmware plagued by poor encryption and backdoors

Lyft claims rival Uber placed spurious orders, hurting its business

Nvidia claims 64-bit Denver chip will outperform Apple’s A7

Dropbox sharpens search on Android app

Google backs $300 million undersea Internet cable to Japan

Motorola makes a comeback

Skully heads-up display motorcycle helmet now available for preorder

US consumer agency warns of several Bitcoin risks

Oracle slaps Oregon with a lawsuit over troubled Obamacare website

Intel to push Broadwell into fanless tablets thinner than iPad

Testing service rolls out vast federated identity management system using Oracle

IBM focuses on identity management with Lighthouse buy

YoYo’s game development tool now targets Xbox One

Acer Chromebook 13 turns on 4K graphics

Atos succeeds in bid to buy Bull, will boost security and cloud offerings

Microsoft still believes in basic phones, launches Nokia 130 for $25

China’s Xiaomi faces privacy hurdles ahead of international expansion

Mobile chips face lockdown to prevent hacks

Riverbed bolsters net mgmt. software for greater automation

Riverbed targets configuration, security and design with new release.

Many home routers supplied by ISPs can be compromised en masse, researchers say

Hacker coalition sets out to improve critical device security, challenges car makers

Microsoft, Google, others back Facebook in New York privacy dispute

Payment cards with chips aren’t perfect, so encrypt everything, experts say

Steve Jobs was ‘central figure’ in Silicon Valley hiring case, judge says

Seven ways DARPA is trying to kill the password

Innovative effort at Fidelity Investments results in Harvard students presenting new business ideas

Judge says settlement is too low in Silicon Valley hiring case

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Aug. 8

September 9 is fine, plausible guessing games, Liquidmetal.

FCC requires emergency texting services from carriers, texting apps

Win Phone 7 users aghast Microsoft axed Skype for their phones

Bar exam software snafu sparks multiple lawsuits

FCC chairman downplays net neutrality differences with Obama

Does your business need a “Data Protection Officer?”

Anticipated new EU regulation may mean you do, notes consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers.

How hackers used Google in stealing corporate data

Attackers used Google and another Internet service in disguising traffic headed to remote servers from compromised computers

Windows 8’s no-name update plan nails OS’s coffin shut

The Internet of Things Brings Far-Reaching Security Threats

Bringing new devices online at home and in the enterprise raises a host of security concerns that will require a more hands-on CIO and an organizational rethinking.

Austrian court rejects Facebook ‘class action’ privacy suit, refers it to another court

USPTO rejects claims of Apple patent that figures in dispute with Samsung

Some mobile POS devices still affected by critical flaws months after patch

Emerging networking technology used by Apple, Cisco will frustrate firewalls

Hoax press release says Intel suspending investment in Israel

T-Mobile could soon be bigger than Sprint

Nadella leaves no doubt about who is in charge in first six months as CEO

US Veteran Affairs overhaul includes IT assessment

IBM’s new brain chip could power the Internet of things

Smartphone kill-switch bill passes California assembly

Oracle issues a virtual strongbox for enterprise encryption keys

Netscout sues Gartner over Magic Quadrant rating

NPM company accuses Gartner of pay-to-play.