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• Microsoft's latest Windows Phone move: Changes at the top

  Getting a read on how well <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> Phone has been doing has been tricky in recent months, with each <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/110311-windows-phones-252759.html">indication of momentum</a> seemingly offset with one or more <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/gartner-windows-phone-sales-plummet-while-and">negative market share or news reports</a>. But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's memo sent within the company Monday and published publicly by Microsoft indicates Windows Phone 7 probably isn't living up to Microsoft's expectations.

• 'Above the law' execs catalyst for BYO revolution, says IBM

  Executives at many large companies are ignoring internal IT policies by bringing their own devices to work, often to the detriment of corporate security, says David Cannon, enterprise offering leader at IBM.

• Cisco reorgs again, folds net management into new cloud group

  Even though it completed the bulk of a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/072011-cisco-job-cuts.html">major restructuring</a> earlier this year, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/cisco/">Cisco</a> continues to tweak its internal organizational structure.

• Salesforce.com hires ex-Oracle, SAP software executive Wookey

  Salesforce.com has hired former Oracle and SAP executive John Wookey, adding a seasoned software-development executive to its ranks at a time of rapid growth in both revenue and its breadth of offerings.

• ARM co-founder and President Tudor Brown to retire

  ARM on Thursday said that co-founder and President Tudor Brown will retire in May next year after helping turn the firm into a dominant mobile processor company.

• 'Lost' interview with Steve Jobs to screen next week

  A <a href="http://www.stevejobsthelostinterview.com/">"lost" interview with the late Steve Jobs</a>, from the mid-1990s, will screen at 19 U.S. theaters for two days next week. Only 10 minutes of the original 69-minute conversation were ever aired.

• Cisco taps former VMware exec to head security push

  Cisco today announced a former VMware executive will head up the newly formed Cisco Security Group at Cisco, which combines two formerly separate units into one security-focused group.

• HP loses top strategist Robison, won't replace him

  Hewlett-Packard's chief strategy and technology officer, Shane Robison, is retiring and will not be replaced, the company said Thursday.

• Apple flooded with more than 1 million memories of Steve Jobs

  Apple, which today is holding a company-wide memorial for Steve Jobs, says that it has received more than 1 million messages from those recalling the company co-founder and former CEO in the wake of his death at the age of 56.

• Jobs died due to respiratory arrest, cancer

  <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> co-founder and longtime CEO Steve Jobs died last week from respiratory arrest related a recurrence of pancreatic cancer that spread to other organs, according to a copy of his death certificate made public yesterday.

• Steve Jobs being honored by Apple employees Oct. 19

  Apple will formally honor co-founder Steve Jobs at an employee event at the company's Cupertino, Calif., campus on Oct. 19.

• McNealy: I would have run HP if they'd asked me

  Scott McNealy, the former chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, would have accepted the job of running Hewlett-Packard if he had been asked, he said this week.

• NZ partners pay tribute to Apple chairman

  Apple's New Zealand partners have paid tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs, who has died.

• From friends and fans, Steve Jobs tributes pour in

  As news of the death of Steve Jobs spread around the Internet, the tributes came pouring in Wednesday, crediting Apple's co-founder and chairman with -- more than once -- changing computing as we know it.

• Steve Jobs: A timeline

  1955 -- Born Feb. 24 in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali.