From CNET: Good news for Office for iPad users: Microsoft's suite of apps continues to inch closer to its desktop counterpart. The company today rolled out updates to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS, bringing a small but welcome set of improvements to the tablet versions of these apps.

Word 1.1...

From DailyTech: Japan's KDDI Corp. (TYO:9433) is currently stuck in third place, having been for the moment passed by Softbank Corp. (TYO:9984). Softbank has 30.3 percent (as of Feb. 2014) of the mobile market in Japan (via its SoftBank, eMobile/eAccess, Willcom, Wireless City Planning (WCP) brands...

From InfoWorld: AMD is moving closer to a motherboard design that will accept both x86 and ARM chips with the shipment of its first 64-bit ARM board.

The Opteron A1100-Series developer hardware is an uncased computer costing $2,999, and aimed at programmers who want to write applications and...

From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices wants to help gamers build cheaper, smaller desktops through new processors the company started shipping on Thursday

AMD’s A10, A8 and A6 chips—code-named Kaveri—are targeted at small-form factor and even larger desktops starting at $399, said Adam Kozak, AMD’s...

From CNET: When will Apple release the iPhone 6? September has been the expected launch month based on the company's past behavior, but a new rumor suggests that consumers may need to wait until October.

The next-generation iPhone is now pegged to hit the market on October 14, at least according to...

From DailyTech: Yesterday, we got a look at how Samsung is performing in the current global smartphone market. IDC’s numbers for Q3 showed us that Samsung’s Q2 2014 shipments fell by 3.9 percent year-over-year (YoY) while its market share for Q2 2014 dipped to 25.2 percent compared to 32.3 percent...

From InfoWorld: Samsung and Apple, in the second quarter, sunk to their lowest shares of the global smartphone market in recent years as Chinese smartphone vendors came on strong, market research firm IDC said Tuesday.

"Samsung and Apple are both seeing a lot of pressure from alternative vendors...

From TechHive: After Netflix made direct interconnection deals with Comcast and Verizon to boost the quality of its videos earlier in 2014, it was pretty much inevitable the streaming service would also strike an agreement with AT&T. Recently, the inevitable was confirmed: Netflix and AT&T came to...

From CNET: Nintendo's troubles continue to pile up, as its latest earnings reveal.

Nintendo reported on Wednesday 74.7 billion yen ($730.5 million) in revenue during the quarter that ended June 30, representing an 8.4 percent drop compared with the same period a year ago. Perhaps more concerning to...

From DailyTech: It looks as though Electronic Arts is looking to shake the gaming industry up a bit with the introduction of EA Access. The new service, which will be $4.99/month or $29.99/year, will allow Xbox One gamers unlimited access to some of EA’s top-rated games.

Some of the games that...