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Samsung gives its app store a makeover with a focus on Galaxy devices

Gmail users on iOS at risk of data interception

Amazon seeks US exemption to test delivery drones

Source code for tiny ‘Tinba’ banking malware leaked

Public parking app MonkeyParking suspends service in San Francisco

Acer ships first Chromebooks with Intel’s Core i3 chip

Malware hidden in Chinese inventory scanners targeted logistics, shipping firms

5 key takeaways from Amazon’s big cloud day

Amazon challenges Box with file share services, attempts to woo mobile app developers

CEO Nadella issues manifesto to shake up Microsoft

Company has to move faster to satisfy customer needs, Microsoft CEO says

Oracle gives sneak peek at its plans for OpenWorld

International law enforcement operation disrupts Shylock banking malware

AWS rolls out enterprise document storage and sharing

Amazon allowed kids to spend millions on in-app purchases, FTC says

Senate committee approves mobile phone unlocking bill

Bell Labs claims new speed record over regular old copper wiring

10Gbps speed reached using experimental new protocol.

Digital certificate breach at Indian authority also targeted Yahoo domains, possibly others

Nadella on Microsoft’s culture change: ‘Nothing is off the table’

LinkedIn tries again to keep people connected, with a redesigned app

IBM rethinking decades-old computer design with $3 billion investment

Blackshades RAT analysis finds key to popularity

Security vendor Akamai dissects notortious Blackshades toolkit and it rich in features for the nontechnical criminal

How WebRTC Is Making Enterprise Inroads

What vacation? Expect to work while you’re away

Microsoft says new hybrid storage options can cut costs up to 60%

Microsoft Azure StorSimple storage options mix on premises with cloud resources.

US lawmaker asks FTC to probe implications of Facebook ‘big data’ experiment

Microsoft settles with No-IP in botnet hunt, after seizing its domains

Windows upgrades, Chromebooks slow PC market bleeding in Q2

Groups call for details on NSA surveillance of Muslim Americans

Deadline looms for $100K Bell Labs Prize

Alcatel-Lucent's research arm to reward innovators in communications and information technology.

Microsoft to strike back at Salesforce.com with CRM cloud for government

Russian Windows leaker denies link to ex-Microsoft worker who stole trade secrets

Botnet brute-forces remote access to point-of-sale systems

Tor exit node operator convicted of abetting spread of child porn

Office 365 SMB editions to get a makeover

Report: Snowden applies for extended asylum in Russia

Chekkt launches, giving enterprise software buyers another Yelp-like marketplace

Murderers, fakers throw bizarre twists in high-tech lawsuits

Obama has big options for green card, H-1B reform without Congress

Microsoft’s IE steps back from the brink of irrelevance

How the Target Breach Has Affected Small Business Data Security

US Senate Intelligence Committee approves cybersecurity bill

Google blocks bogus digital certificates issued in India

Standalone wearables coming this year, AT&T executive says

Facebook kills ‘Lecpetex’ botnet, which hit 250,000 computers

Mt. Gox CEO selling Bitcoins.com, will give some proceeds to burned investors

EMC looks to the clouds with TwinStrata and new VMax3 array

Commissioners rip FCC’s spendy school Wi-Fi plan

Python bumps off Java as top learning language

Cisco mulling membership in Google, Microsoft Ethernet group

25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium formed with Arista, Broadcom and Mellanox for faster development of lower cost/gigabit data center links.

NetSuite socked with lawsuit by textile manufacturer

Scammers want to wreck your business, vacation travel

FTC, FBI warn of unwanted travel companions: scammers, fraudsters.