From ComputerWorld: A federal court in Texas has ordered a new trial on damages in a patent infringement dispute between Apple and Smartflash that could modify an earlier $533 million damages award to the patent-licensing company.

District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the U.S. District Court for the...

From CNET: Microsoft is cutting more employees and restructuring its mobile phone business as it continues to struggle in the smartphone market.

The software giant announced on Wednesday that it will lay off 7,800 workers, most of them in its moribund smartphone unit, which it bought from Nokia...

From DailyTech: The Mozilla Foundation has published a blog summarizing a recent all hands meeting held at Whistler in Vancouver, BC. Among the highlights is a soft promise that Windows 10 will be a priority.

The promise is soft as Mozilla did not commit to a definitive release date for the...

From PC World: Although Microsoft has now brought Skype for Business to Windows Phone, its own business customers—those who subscribe to Office 365—may be disappointed to learn that one key feature hasn’t yet been implemented: conversation syncing.

Skype for Business has already replaced Lync on...

From InfoWorld: Samsung on Monday announced what it is calling the first multi-terabyte consumer solid-state drive (SSD), which will offer 2TB of capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor for laptops and desktops.

The new 850 Pro and 850 EVO SSDs double the maximum capacity of their predecessors.

As with...

From PC World: Ellen Pao, interim CEO of online community site Reddit, offered the site’s users an apology Monday, saying that “we screwed up.”

She went on to acknowledge a litany of sins, focusing on poor communication from site administrators about major changes, broken promises and a lack of...

From CNET: If you're hankering after the latest Sony camera, in particularly the new Cyber-shot RX100 IV and RX10 II, the good news that you'll be able to get it this month if you live in Australia or countries in Asia.

Sony is making a big push to retail its latest two compacts in the region, and...

From DailyTech: In short order Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) closed out the fourth of July weekend by delivering not one, but two fresh Windows 10 builds to Fast Ring Insider Preview testers. Builds 10159 and 10162 bring minimal superficial changes on the surface, but based on my testing they bring a...

From CNET: For Amazon Prime members, Christmas is coming early this year.

To celebrate Amazon's 20th birthday next week, the e-commerce giant is introducing Prime Day, offering up what it claims will include "more deals than Black Friday." The summer sale will be held Wednesday, July 15 -- the day...

From ComputerWorld: Uber Technologies is suspending its UberPop service in France, after a bitter fight with taxi drivers who say the service breaks the law.

The company plans to remove access to UberPop from its mobile app in France from 8 p.m. local time Friday, it said in a blog post.

UberPop...