From PC World: Microsoft has said previously that its upcoming DirectX 12 API will make your PC more efficient. Now we know by how much: just by using DirectX, executives said, you'll see a 20 percent improvement in your graphics frame rate, and a drop in CPU utilisation to boot.

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From CNET: Softcard, the carrier-backed mobile payments initiative, is shutting down its app after striking a deal to help expand the reach of Google's mobile payments system.

The joint venture between Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile announced Wednesday it would disable its mobile app and close...

From DailyTech: Fans of Windows Phone (scarce as they may be statistically speaking) have been disappointed over the past year to see Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) largely ignore the high-end market. While a continual stream of low-end releases -- like the Lumia 530 and Lumia 630/635 -- kept Microsofts...

From ComputerWorld: SanDisk has managed to cram 200GB of memory into a MicroSD card. The new card is a 56 percent jump on the current highest capacity MicroSD, a 128GB card.

SanDisk said it managed the higher capacity by using a proprietary design and production process that allows for more bits of...

From InfoWorld: Google today said that it would stop serving updates to Chrome for Android on devices running Android 4.0.x, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), in mid-April.

By the time Google halts updates to Chrome on Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the three-year-old mobile operating system's...

From PC World: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 OS hasn’t taken the world by storm, but its successor, Windows 10, is off to an encouraging start even before its release.

Only a handful of Windows 10 handsets were on display on the show floor of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, but with...

From CNET: Android Lollipop is gradually making its way onto more devices.

The newest edition of Google's Android Developers Dashboard reveals a 3.3 percent share for Android 5.0. That percentage takes into account all the Android devices that hit the Google Play store during the seven-day period...

From InfoWorld: BlackBerry isn't giving up on the smartphone market, and now hopes to make a mark with the Leap, an all-touch LTE device with a keen price tag.

The company launched the new product on Tuesday at an event in Barcelona, where Mobile World Congress is now in full swing. And just like...

From CNET: Mozilla has joined the 64-bit browsing party with Firefox for Windows, but only in the Developer Edition for now.

The Developer Edition is a special version of Firefox with built-in tools for creating websites and web apps. While OS X and Linux already have a 64-bit version, Mozilla is...

From CNET: Just last week, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman said that her company would be "on the hunt" to acquire new companies, and now she has made good on that promise.

HP plans to buy Aruba Networks in a $3 billion transaction that, factoring in cash and debt, works out to about $2.7 billion...