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Ballmer’s phone blunder cost Microsoft $10 billion

Nokia deal write-off, severance and restructuring costs totaled $10B in fiscal 2015

Sprint sees record low customer loss rate, but drops to 4th place behind T-Mobile

SoftBank chairman commends Sprint recovery but is critical of U.S. carriers in general

iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Siri-powered voicemail killer, phoney phones & 4 inches of nothing

Intel’s big plan to seed the private cloud market

With PC chip sales slowing, Intel is looking to the cloud for growth

Named Data Networking group preps for workshop, hackathon

Project to replace TCP/IP ready to showcase, discuss latest advances in NDN

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made

Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC.

Cisco’s SDN controller has a security hole

Company issues software to plug a root user access vulnerability

IBM applies some engineering rigor to the Internet of Things

Patch halt looms for half of all IE users

Meanwhile, early data shows that 40% of Windows 10 users are running something other than the default Edge

Windows 10’s first update is already in the works

After surviving a slightly bumpy release, Microsoft is already preparing the first update for Windows 10.