From CNET: Microsoft is still very much a company in transition. While it continues to incur losses in an attempt to succeed in the mobile device market, Microsoft's cloud services, software and Surface tablet divisions continue to grow.

Microsoft on Thursday posted fiscal first-quarter earnings...

From DailyTech: Amazon continues its trend of huge quarterly losses as it builds out its infrastructure and signs new licensing agreements for services like Amazon Instant Video. For Q3, Amazon recorded a net loss of a $437 billion compared to just $41 million for the same period a year ago.

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From InfoWorld: Microsoft is continuing its crusade to get CIOs interested in Windows 10, touting new security features that include two-factor authentication built directly into the OS.

The effort to bake two-factor authentication into Windows 10 is intended at doing away with the old single...

From PC World: Microsoft is withdrawing free streaming on Xbox Music from Dec. 1, citing the need to focus on its music purchase and subscription service.

The company is offering a free 30-day trial for users wanting to move to the paid service.

“Effective December 1, 2014, the free Xbox Music...

From CNET: Apple said Wednesday it will stop supporting the encryption standard Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 for its push notifications service in response to a vulnerability identified earlier this month in the aging protocol.

Apple announced on its developer site that it will switch on October 29...

From DailyTech: If you’ve having a hard time keeping up with Samsung’s long list of Galaxy smartphones, get in line. That list is about to grow even longer thanks to a revised version of the Galaxy S5 that was introduced earlier this year; the new model is called the Galaxy S5 Plus (G901F).

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From InfoWorld: It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft is officially phasing out the Nokia brand name.

A post on Nokia France's Facebook page says that the account will soon change its name to “Microsoft Lumia.” Nokia France's Twitter account linked to the post as well, and Microsoft confirmed...

From PC World: Microsoft has published a temporary fix for a new zero-day flaw that affects nearly all versions of Windows and is currently being exploited via PowerPoint.

The flaw affects all Windows releases except Windows Server 2003, the company wrote in an advisory Tuesday. It can be exploited...

From CNET: Google has acquired Firebase, a company that offers developers a mechanism to write mobile and Web-based apps that stay in sync with each other.

The Firebase employees will become part of Google's cloud-computing team, Google said Tuesday. Firebase offers a service that lets apps running...

From DailyTech: Before the iPad Air 2 was announced, reports had suggested that Apple’s flagship tablet would feature an A8X processor with 2GB of RAM; twice that of its predecessor. For all of those iPad Air owners that witnessed application crashes or Safari tab refreshing, this was welcome news...