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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”

Goodwill Industries investigates suspected payment card breach

Black Hat presentation on TOR suddenly cancelled

Report: Apple’s new iPhone 6 could have biggest initial production

Stealthy Web tracking tools pose increasing privacy risks to users

AirMagnet Wi-Fi security tool takes aim at drones

Yahoo buys Flurry to make more money from mobile apps

Google may bring Wi-Fi to New York City pay phones

Salesforce.com’s trademark infringement anything but social, lawsuit claims

EFF releases Chrome, Firefox plugin to block third-party tracking

Open Wireless Router firmware aims for better router security, network performance

Microsoft consolidates enterprise IT conferences

BYOD morphs from lockdown to true mobility

Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block

3 keys to getting started with devops

Devops can give application development a power boost, but rolling it out carefully is key

Cisco enterprise controller going through paces

APIC Enterprise Module being banged on by DevNet community as it lingers in betas, field trials.

Stealthy ransomware ‘Critroni’ uses Tor, could replace Cryptolocker

Ping Identity rolls mobile one-swipe authentication; takes aim at RSA tokens

PingID for Apple iOS or Google Android mobile devices is an app that works to generate one-time passwords on a smartphone

New BlackBerry COO is ex-Sybase exec Marty Beard

China’s Internet adoption sags to levels not seen since in 8 years

US court says warrant for access to all content of email account is justified

Lenovo plans new small-screen Windows tablet for US market

Cloud message resonating with Microsoft partners

MIT invention to speed up data centers should cheer developers

Wall Street Beat: Transition to mobile, cloud hits tech earnings

Dell accepting Bitcoin payments

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending July 18

Apple iPhone 6 scuttlebutt includes: Delay by bottleneck(s), or not, happy haptics, battery woes.

Apple, IBM spell out enterprise support for iPhone, iPad

Business Agility Drives Cloud Adoption

Companies adopting cloud computing most aggressively say that business agility -- not cost -- is the primary driver of adoption.

D-Wave wants more real-world deployments for its quantum computer