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• Sprint confirms new CEO amid reports of abandoning T-Mobile merger

  Sprint confirmed today that CEO Dan Hesse will be replaced by board member Marcelo Claure, effective Monday.

• F5 CEO sees opportunity in myriad challenges facing IT

  F5 Networks CEO John McAdam said Tuesday at his company's Agility conference in New York that, in essence, the future of IT is complicated, confusing and riddled with security threats - and that's a good thing.

• How packet micro-shaping maximizes bandwidth utilization

  Enterprises are increasingly virtualizing IT infrastructure by migrating storage, application, and database servers into cloud/hosted datacenters. As they do so, they need to partner with ISPs and service providers to establish reliable, performance assured, bandwidth optimized connections between each enterprise and data center location.

• Gates cashes out another 20M Microsoft shares for $882M

  Bill Gates has sold another 20 million shares of the company he co-founded, driving his portfolio under the 300-million mark for the first time, according to regulatory filings.

• Web acceleration protocol nears completion

  When it comes to speeding up Web traffic over the Internet, sometimes too much of a good thing may not be such a good thing at all.

• CISOs still struggle for respect from peers

  Chief information security officers (CISOs) continue to have a hard time gaining the respect of other C-suite executives despite the heightened focus overall on information security.

• Secrets to CIO Longevity

  Enterprises that keep the same CIO in place for years -- and even decades -- have a unique culture of collaboration and consistency.

• RoboBees to Save US Agriculture

  What man breaks, man can fix ... at least, that's what we like to think. Consider, for example, bees. Bees of all species are dying off in the US and Europe and over the last few years we've seen the commercial beekeeping industry decimated by a syndrome called colony collapse disorder (CCD).

• 'Nadella Effect' makes Ballmer $US2.8bn richer

  Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's 'devices and services' strategy may be in tatters, discarded by his successor, Satya Nadella, but Ballmer must be smiling all the way to the bank.

• Ayehu extends IT automation into security automation

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• In Pictures: 10 tools for more productive telecommuting

  Keep in touch with co-workers, track your time, and block distractions with these apps and services.

• Big changes and possible cuts prompt Microsoft to publicly air Nadella memo

  Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella distributed his memo beyond the halls of his company to signal to everyone that big changes, likely including staffing cuts, are coming.

• In Pictures: Tech companies pick up tab for pricey CEO perks

  CEO pay packages include perks such as access to the corporate jet, home security, and financial planning advice.

• Facebook: We can't and won't control emotions

  Facebook executive, Sheryl Sandberg, speaking about the company's controversial psychological experiment for the first time, has apologised for upsetting users.

• How a private Dell works with customers, and sees its rivals

  The Dell user conference was held in a beach hotel against a calm ocean with no threat of storms. For a company that wants to be known as the strong, silent type, the location may have been perfect.