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...

From PC World: Do you trust Facebook to do the right thing with Oculus Rift? Would you trust any multi-billion dollar company to so thoroughly dominate a new technology that there's no room for competitors to maneuver?

Probably not.

But that's what Razer hopes to short-circuit with its OSVR, or...

From CNET: Samsung may be releasing Tizen on all of its 2015 smart TVs, but owners of its older devices are out of luck.

Joe Stinziano, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics America, told CNET on Monday that it won't work for the company to update older Samsung smart TVs to Tizen.

"It is...

From DailyTech: Xiaomi, Inc. -- a Chinese gadget maker who's rocketed to third place in global sales and first place in sales in its home country -- reported some results of its record-setting 2014 year of sales, hot on the heels of its recent $45B USD valuation.

The OEM, who just raised $1.1B USD...