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Cumulus Networks, the “star” open networking start-up with the hardware-agnostic Linux operating system, is shuffling bodies as it lines up another funding round. Vice President of Business Reza Malekzadeh is leaving the company in October to pursue other opportunities, says CEO JR Rivers.

Yesterday the mere possibility that objects protruding out of the ground might be Google Fiber had Atlanta residents drooling. Today, we have another sign – literally – that Google can’t roll out this stuff fast enough.

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My posts often reflect on the use of the latest, greatest technologies and applications. But sometimes old technology can be applied to a problem to deliver far more important things than a laundry pickup service or home-delivered gourmet food.

AT&T said three of its employees secretly installed software on its network so a cellphone unlocking service could surreptitiously funnel hundreds of thousands of requests to its servers to remove software locks on phones.

Adoption of Apple's new iOS 9 was slightly ahead of the pace of last year's iOS 8 as the upgrade neared the 48-hour mark, but, like its immediate predecessor, was far behind that of 2013's iOS, according to data from an analytics firm.

As the old cybersecurity adage states, ‘the cybersecurity chain is only as strong as its weakest link.’  Smart CISOs also understand that the proverbial weak link may actually be out of their control. 

On the heels of Intel's announcement that it will be investing over $60 million in drone maker Yuneec, chip maker Qualcomm has said that it has completed development on a drone-specific chip platform.

Public cloud is big, and it’s growing fast. Nobody will deny that.

But Synergy Research Group’s latest estimate that IT corporations earned $20 billion in revenue thanks to the public cloud seems a little high. Is this fuzzy math or is the cloud really this big? It’s hard to say for sure. Check out the research yourself here.

+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Why is Marc Benioff backing away from the cloud? +

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Security expert Brian Krebs, who has made a specialty of exposing ATM scams over the years, has a doozy of a three-part series this week uncovering a widespread scheme in Mexico based on sophisticated Bluetooth technology and old-fashioned cash bribes.

Can't get enough Facebook?

It may not be long before you can use it at work without getting in trouble with your boss.

Facebook is expanding the beta test of its social network for the enterprise and hopes to launch it in the next few months.

The company confirmed to Computerworld today that Facebook at Work - a desktop service and mobile app designed to connect people in an enterprise - is expected to be available for free before the end of the year.

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Microsoft may have just a single-digit slice of the mobile market, but there's one segment of mobile that it's winning: Malware infections delivered via mobile networks.

Digital transformation is the business buzzword of the year. But if you feel like you’ve come to a standstill in your digital transformation efforts, you are probably not alone.

Most of the references to technology in the so-called main-stage GOP debate Wednesday night were around protecting U.S. borders. There were calls for drones, visa entry and exit tracking systems, and overall more reliance on electronics to deter illegal crossings. It was all about building a better fence, and not about government's role in advancing technology.

There are lies, damn lies ... and technology industry studies.

Back in May, Gartner released a survey that crapped all over the Hadoop industry: Of the 284 CIOs polled by Gartner, only 26 percent claimed to be "either deploying, piloting, or experimenting with Hadoop." Even with the small sample size and large margin of error, these were depressing numbers -- ones that contradicted the level of adoption people like me are seeing in the real world.

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Microsoft added two game-changing security features for enterprise users in Windows 10, but until recently, the company has been relatively quiet about them.

For the second year in a row, Apple reduced prices for its expanded iCloud storage plans, putting costs in line with rivals like Google, Microsoft and Dropbox.

Uncooking an egg, peeing like a whale, and fathering a few hundred children

Don’t look so confused – it’s the 2015 Ig Nobel awards, the scientific equivalent of the Razzies, given out to real science projects “that make you laugh, and then make you think.” Or, in the case of several of this year’s “winners,” that make you squirm uncomfortably in your chair. Read on, if you dare.

The following tale of corporate lunacy was recently posted to The Listerve by Dennis (really, just "Dennis"). Apparently the story got a good response on the list and Dennis told me "The feedback I'm getting vindicates every decision I've ever second-guessed in my life.  Which is to say, all of them."

Stipends are a way for businesses to reimburse employees for a portion of their wireless costs and, if implemented properly, address these common issues: cost, eligibility, control and taxes. Here’s how: