From PC World: Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank saw its profit dwindle dramatically in the April to June quarter as customer growth slowed.

Japan’s third-biggest mobile phone company logged a net profit of ¥77.57 billion (US$759 million) for the quarter, down 68 percent from ¥244 billion a year...

From CNET: The Bing translation feature in Twitter that quietly made an appearance two months ago has suddenly gone away, according to many users.

The feature, which showed up earlier this year, allowed Twitter users to quickly translate posts that were in another language. At the time, it was...

From DailyTech: T-Mobile has managed to pass Sprint and become No. 1 in the U.S. prepaid wireless sector. According to T-Mobile, it now has 15.64 million prepaid customers, which surpasses Sprint’s 15.19 million customers in the same market.

The big U.S. mobile players are far behind, with AT&T...

From InfoWorld: A security review of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from multiple manufacturers revealed that they typically have more vulnerabilities than home routers, a class of devices known for poor security and vulnerable code.

Jacob Holcomb, a security analyst at Baltimore-based...

From PC World: Struggling PC maker Acer is showing signs of recovery with its report of improved profits in the second quarter, albeit on a smaller revenue base than a year earlier.

During the period, Acer’s net profit reached NT$485 million (US$16.2 million), up from a net loss of NT$343 million a...

From CNET: Video-game-streaming service Twitch, which is the subject of rumors about a Google takeover, announced a new copyright protection policy that threatens to muffle audio on much of its users' Video on Demand content.

Twitch said Wednesday it would begin using Audible Magic's audio...

From DailyTech: Despite Sony Corp.'s (TYO:6758) PlayStation 4 (PS4) outselling the Xbox One more than three to one in Q2 2014, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said it had no additional plans to further cut the price of its console to drive stronger sales.

Rumors of a price cut heated up after the mobile...

From InfoWorld: Google has promoted the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows to the browser's more stable Beta distribution channel, and boosted Chrome for OS X to 64-bit on the more preliminary Canary and Dev builds.

Chrome for Windows 64-bit shifted to Beta on July 30 after about two months on...

From PC World: Sprint has named Marcelo Claure to replace Dan Hesse as president and CEO, after giving up on its effort to acquire T-Mobile USA.

Sprint announced Wednesday that Claure, who joined the company’s board of directors in January, will assume his new role August 11. Claure is the founder...

From CNET: Google on Tuesday announced that it's opening up its email service to better support more of the world's languages.

Gmail will now be able to recognize email addresses that use characters from languages such as Chinese and Devanagari, and will also recognize addresses with accented Latin...