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Wearables will make first breakthrough in enterprise, panelists say

Use cases are clearer and adoption obstacles may be lower, they say

LG notches record smartphone shipments on G3 strength

EBay faces class action suit over data breach

Sale of Mt. Gox-related Bitcoins.com halted after court order

Qualcomm faces hurdles collecting royalties from China

Twitter employees mainly male and white, says it has ‘lot of work to do’

Facebook isn’t giving up on search

Firm says vulnerability in Tails contained in I2P component

More AT&T customers switch to paying for their phones

Facebook reports a big sales jump, helped by mobile ads

IBM aims to disrupt supercomputing market with cloud enticements

Microsoft verging on single OS across all devices

Streamlined Microsoft platform plus cloud services could lead to business apps accessible from any machine

Arrests made after international cyber-ring targets StubHub

Top 5 take-aways from Tim Cook on Apple’s Q3 earnings call

Apple’s Tim Cook says iPhone thriving, iPad innovation on tap, Apple is an enterprise company

Pebble: Next-gen wearables will require new tech, also your personal data

'You need to trust the tech world now,' says Pebble product evangelist.

Apache Hive brings real-time queries to Hadoop

Mozilla ships Firefox 31, adds search to new tab page

Is Sony’s Walkman set to make a comeback?

UK government adopts ODF for document exchange with citizens and suppliers

Dutch spy agencies can receive NSA data, court rules

Oracle ships nearly 60 mobile apps for JD Edwards

BlackBerry offers BES10 as a hosted service through partners

File-encrypting Android ransomware ‘Simplocker’ targets English-speaking users

Dropbox for Business grows more security, IT admin muscles

Mt. Gox trustee leaves door open to revival of Bitcoin exchange

SQL injection flaw in Wall Street Journal database led to breach

Google has to face US privacy suit over new user data policy

Apple hit with class action lawsuit for alleged labor rule violations

Zero-day flaws in Tails aren’t for sale, vulnerability broker says

How Nokia both helped and hindered Microsoft’s earnings

Five takeaways from the Apple earnings call

More mobile gadgets than people? Seven countries now qualify

Midyear jobs outlook: What to know about IT hiring, skills, benefits

Companies in hiring mode say there’s a shortage of tech talent, while IT pros are upping their expectations for pay and benefits. Overall, the midyear jobs outlook is positive for IT pros.

Microsoft revenue lifted by cloud sales to businesses

TOR patch coming

TOR oversight group preps a patch for flaw that was the subject of a canceled Black Hat briefing

ARM develops second wave of 64-bit processors

Juniper jettisons mobile security biz

Sells Junos Pulse to private equity firm for $250 million

Microsoft brings two open source tools to Azure

Oracle builds on BlueKai acquisition with Data Cloud

Should EMC sell off 80% stake in VMware?

Activist investor calls for move though little support seen

IEEE forms 25G Ethernet study group

IEEE follows formation of vendor consortium to develop product for data centers

Tor Project working to fix weakness that can unmask users

‘Nadella Effect’ makes Ballmer $2.8B richer

Hands on with Xiaomi’s Mi 4, a high-end handset, with an iPhone look

Teradata acquires assets of Hadapt, Revelytix for big data

Verizon revenue rises steadily, driven by wireless service growth

Members of UK Parliament call for judicial review of data retention law

China’s Xiaomi to sell $13 smart wristband, trumpets global ambitions

Virtru launches business email encryption service for Google Apps

Big Switch aims to control the cloud with SDN product

Unveils Cloud Fabric controller for grouping servers, switches and apps into tenant-centric “pods”