From DailyTech: Released in Sept. 2014, the 4.7-in. Apple, Inc. (AAPL) iPhone 6 and its bigger, faster 5.5-inch counterpart, the iPhone 6 Plus, have long been available in Europe and other regions SIM-free. But in the U.S. many of the iPhones 6/6+ units sold have been locked to the networks of AT&T...

From InfoWorld: Mozilla's deal with Yahoo has quadrupled the search provider's usage by those running Firefox in the U.S., but the browser's users still prefer Google, according to data from an Irish analytics company.

Data provided to Computerworld by StatCounter showed that Yahoo's search engine...

From PC World: If you think laptops packing solid state drives (SSDs) are fast now, just wait until you see a notebook rocking Samsung's new SM951 MLC flash SSD introduced during CES. Samsung's latest SSD ditches SATA for the PCIe (M.2) interface, similar to other SSDs we saw hit store shelves in...

From CNET: Sprint's latest promotions appear to be paying off as the company added close to a million customers during its fiscal third quarter.

On Thursday, the carrier announced preliminary results for the quarter that ended December 31. Sprint said it added 967,000 new customers -- a number that...

From DailyTech: There's a certain amount of pent-up demand among music fans for high-capacity storage portable music players (PMPs), if the residual demand for the defunct iPod Classic 160 GB edition is any sign (the defunct PMP regularly goes for $200-$250 USD used on eBay, Inc.'s (EBAY) auction...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft today opened its preview of Office for Android tablets to all eligible comers, expanding the sneak peek from the invite-only beta it first offered in November.

The requirements for using the preview were also slightly changed. Microsoft added the recently released Android...

From PC World: Early smartphone pioneer Palm is making a comeback—at least in name. Chinese multinational TCL Communication, which produces smartphones as the Alcatel OneTouch, recently announced it would relaunch the Palm brand as a U.S.-based company. TCL acquired the rights to the Palm name from...

From CNET: Audio equipment maker Monster has filed a lawsuit against Apple's Beats Electronics, claiming that the high-end-headphone maker's co-founders allegedly conspired to sever the headphone line from Monster before Apple bought the company last year for $3.2 billion.

In a complaint filed...

From DailyTech: Intel Corp.'s (INTC) first widely available chips built on its new 14 nanometer (nm) scale node are finally here. The new shrunk core design is code-named Broadwell. And while Broadwell promises big gains, it's a year late in practice, if not in principle. And that raises some...

From InfoWorld: Netflix, accused of taking advantage of Internet fast lanes while calling on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to prohibit them, has defended its practice of signing traffic peering agreements with large broadband providers.

Netflix's traffic interconnection deals with...