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Cisco grabs-up SD-WAN player Viptela for $610M

Viptela leaders are ex-Cisco execs, engineers; move bolsters Cisco SD-WAN play

Appeals court won’t rehear a challenge to net neutrality rules

The court upheld the FCC's 2015 rules just days after the agency moved to repeal them on its own

Microsoft’s enterprise phone strategy flops as revenue evaporates

Best move was to stop throwing more money into enterprise phones, says analyst

MIT’s WiGait uses wireless signals to step up detection of health issues

MIT CSAIL researchers create wireless technology for continuously — and unobtrusively — measuring walking speed in an effort to detect signs of cognitive and other health deteriorations

Star Wars Holochess can become a reality thanks to Vuforia and Tango

Vuforia Smart Terrain and Google's Tango platform development tools bring virtual content that interacts with objects and the environment

Amazon bestows free Prime memberships on townspeople who need them not at all

Trump seeks to upgrade US government IT services

Reportedly, about 20 technology chief executives will discuss upgrading the government’s IT services during a June meeting

Apparently, Wikipedia is a threat to public order and national security

That seems to be the justification for Turkey’s ban of the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia

NSA suggests using virtualization to secure smartphones

It's now feasible to secure smartphones using virtualization, a technology the NSA currently requires only on tablets and laptops

Windows Phone brought in just $5 million last quarter

Microsoft reported Windows Phone revenue declined $730 million in its third fiscal quarter of 2016. It’s time to pull the plug on it.

Believe your employer doesn’t know about your legal problems? Think again

Companies hire a third party to scour public databases to make sure employees are not getting into legal trouble that would impact their jobs. But is it ethical?

Public clouds are calling to IT engineers — and their wallets

A global survey found one-third of data-center and IT professionals plan to put workloads in the cloud over the next year

65% of enterprise workloads still in on-premises data centers, study finds

Server consolidation, new data center buildouts also cited

iPhone 8 Rumor Rollup: long live the battery, here come the cases, plus a new concept design

The iPhone 8 could feature a more powerful battery, plus improved charging technology

Apple fans are described as ‘Sheeple’ by Merriam-Webster dictionary

Stealthy Mac malware spies on encrypted browser traffic

Researchers found a new malware program for macOS that is digitally signed and installs a fake root certificate to perform man-in-the-middle attacks

Google’s Chrome will soon start warning you more about HTTP pages

Chrome's Incognito mode will label all HTTP pages as 'not secure' starting in October

TSA: “As you can imagine, live anti-tank rounds are strictly prohibited altogether.”

TSA finds live anti-tank round in carry-on bag

Legal war with Apple hits Qualcomm’s revenue projections

Qualcomm's reduced its third quarter revenue projections as it expects not to receive a large chunk of licensing revenue from Apple's partners

Raspberry Pi roundup: Conduct your own symphony, play some Atari, and Competitor Corner

Athena Lecturer Award for women researchers goes to Rice prof who really gets robots moving

Kavraki currently planning motions of Robonaut 2, NASA’s robotic assistant at the International Space Station

Network management vulnerability exposes cable modems to hacking

SNMP authentication bypass flaw could be used to hijack hundreds of thousands of cable modems from around the world.

Cloud computing has another killer quarter

Big cloud earnings—and profits—from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft extend cloud momentum, make billions for Jeff Bezos

Q1 2017 smartphone shipments: Samsung rebounds, Apple goes sideways, Chinese makers roar

Samsung and Apple find smartphone growth elusive as the center of gravity shifts west to east and budget phones improve

If software eats everything, are network engineers on the menu?

Enterprise network leaders say preparing for change doesn't have to mean starting over as a programmer

Windows 10 adoption faster than any previous OS

As much as 85% of businesses will have migrated to Windows 10 before the year ends. Security improvements drive the move.

Should your next big hire be a chief A.I. officer?

Debate simmers over the need for C-suite oversight of artificial intelligence in the enterprise

Users have little confidence their company can protect their mobile device

Sixty-four percent of respondents are doubtful that their organization can prevent a mobile cyberattack.

Intel projects decline in chip prices, and AMD’s Ryzen is one reason

AMD's lower priced Ryzen chips are putting pressure on Intel's premium chips

FCC asks whether to ‘keep, modify, or eliminate’ net neutrality rules

The agency plans to ask the public about its proposal to repeal parts of the rules

Fired IT workers to file discrimination lawsuit

University's IT employees will allege age and national origin discrimination

FAQ: How to skip a Windows 10 upgrade

Enterprises can blow by an upgrade ... if they're willing to hotfoot it to the next version

Google Cloud growth is outpacing the company’s ad business

Turns out, the company's enterprise push is working out

Hands on with the unusual Acer Predator Triton 700 gaming laptop

Acer's new gaming laptop reverses the location of the touchpad and keyboard

Hands on Acer’s Switch 5, a competitor to Microsoft’s Surface Pro

The 2-in-1 device runs Intel's Kaby Lake chips, but it lacks in some other areas

How Google and Amazon think about multi-cloud workloads

Google and Amazon have different perspectives when it comes to customers splitting workloads across multiple cloud platforms

Cloudflare wants to secure IoT connections to the internet

The Cloudflare Orbit service allows IoT manufacturers to protect devices against attacks even when firmware patches are not yet ready

2.4GHz is a headache for Wi-Fi users, and it’s here to stay

WLAN experts share tips on how to deal with 2.4GHz vs. 5GHz Wi-Fi

Failure to communicate helps ransomware prosper

A panel at SOURCE Boston 2017 agreed that fighting ransomware will take more communication

Apple fanboys cited as Merriam-Webster herds ‘sheeple’ into dictionary

Folks are fantasizing about Amazon’s Alexa

People are starting to love their virtual assistants and even fantasize sexually about them, which is a good thing for marketers because along with love comes trust

IBM: Financial services industry bombarded by malware, security threats

IBM X Force says financial services are targeted 65% more by cyber-attacks than the average organization

Cyberespionage, ransomware big gainers in new Verizon breach report

Verizon released its tenth annual breach report this morning, and cyberespionage and ransomware were the big gainers in 2016.

Federal CIOs tackle the next phase of cloud migration

Many government agencies have already moved basic applications and services to the cloud, but when it comes to the next wave, CIOs must take a hard look at their systems and negotiate flexible contracts with vendors.

Latest OWASP Top 10 looks at APIs, web apps

The new OWASP Top 10 list is out, and while most of it remains the same, there are new additions focusing on web applications and APIs

Samsung will launch new flagship smartphone months after Galaxy S8

The South Korean giant warned about tougher competition ahead of Apple’s annual iPhone launch

How to check your Uber rating

Juniper finds its head in the clouds; security is another story

Juniper touts cloud success, promises to do better with security path

Ransomware attacks are taking a greater toll on victim’s wallets

The average ransomware payment has risen to $1,077, up from $294 a year earlier, Symantec said

Avoid manually installing Windows 10 Creators Update

Problems have emerged with Update Assistant, forcing Microsoft to issue a warning about manually upgrading to Windows 10 Creators Update