From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services is providing more payment options for its cloud-based virtual machines, allowing users to lock in a price and pay either entirely upfront, or throughout the life of a one- or three-year contract.

AWS has a variety of ways customers can pay for using its cloud...

From PC World: Dynamics customers can now get their hands on the suite’s latest update, which includes the ability to add the Cortana voice-command technology to the company’s CRM software.

Users will be able to speak voice commands to the software by using the Cortana personal assistant, which...

From CNET: Mozilla apparently is trying anew to gain a browser foothold on iOS, the operating system that powers Apple's iPhones and iPads.

Johnathan Nightingale, vice president of Firefox at Mozilla, told Mozilla community members about the idea on Tuesday at the non-profit organization's...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) was the subject of some critical reports in September when at a week after the release of iOS 8, only 46 percent of iPhone users worldwide had upgraded. The cause for concern, the reasoning went, was that iOS 8 adoption was tracking slower than iOS 7 adoption...

From InfoWorld: As anticipated, Mozilla today updated Firefox to version 34, automatically switching the browser's default search from Google to Yahoo for most users in North America.

Firefox 34 launched early Monday to little fanfare from Mozilla, who touted it only on the update's Notes page...

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard isn’t making bones about the fact that the Unix OS market is in decline, but the company believes its HP-UX has a long life ahead for customers using its fault-tolerant servers.

The company has a road map for HP-UX into 2022, which could possibly expand into 2025...

From CNET: Streaming media devices, like set-top boxes that connect to a television or sticks that plug into an HDMI port, have proven even more popular this year than last, a new study shows.

During the first three quarters of 2014, 10 percent of US households that have a broadband connection have...

From DailyTech: If at first you don't succeed the rumor mill will keep spinning. That's the story more or less of the long-anticipated Tizen smartphone, which has seen plenty of rumors, but no actual product, thus far.

The company behind the device is smartphone market leader Samsung Electronics...

From InfoWorld: Mozilla will automatically change the default search engine in Firefox from Google to Yahoo for most U.S. users when it updates the browser this month.

Firefox 34 is to launch later today or perhaps tomorrow, and may include the search engine switch.

All U.S. Firefox users who have...

From PC World: Intel is strengthening its effort to reduce what it calls the “pain of passwords” by acquiring PasswordBox, a Canadian company that offers an online identity manager designed to let users log on to a range of websites and services with just one click.

PasswordBox lets users store...