From CNET: Microsoft has hammered a nail in the coffin of its Windows RT lineup.

The software giant has stopped making its last remaining RT device, namely the Nokia Lumia 2520 Windows RT tablet, a spokesman for the company told the Verge. This latest development follows news that Microsoft had...

From CNET: Sprint is showing faint signs of life.

The nation's third-largest wireless carrier, which has suffered through several quarters of customer defections, finally returned to growth, adding nearly 900,000 customers in its Sprint business. Most notably, it added 30,000 subscribers who pay at...

From InfoWorld: The company that powers your smartphones and tablets has introduced its most powerful chip design yet, the Cortex-A72, which should find its way into gadgets early next year.

ARM says the A72 will provide 3.5 times the performance of its current Cortex-A15 design, which is widely...

From PC World: To bring its microprocessor designs to emerging markets, ARM Holdings is looking to China and its growing number of electronics vendors to help pave the way.

“The Greater China region is becoming a key market to ARM, not just in terms of market share,” said Allen Wu, ARM’s Greater...

From CNET: Staples is scooping up Office Depot to the tune of $6.3 billion.

Combined, the two companies own around 4,000 stores and see annual sales of more than $35 billion. But the pair have been hit by greater competition from online retailers such as Amazon as well as chains such as Target and...

From DailyTech: For a while if you wanted an ultrabook with a moderately power discrete GPU you had a single option -- Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) MacBook Pro in Boot Camp mode. The last couple years, though, have been a renaissance of sorts with brands like The Lenovo Group, Ltd. (HKG:0992) and MSI...

From InfoWorld: Despite Microsoft's strong growth in the cloud market, Amazon reached a five-year high in its share of the cloud infrastructure service market.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) had 25 percent revenue growth from the third quarter to the fourth quarter, giving it a 30 percent global market...

From PC World: Sony has sold Sony Online Entertainment, an Internet games company it established in the 1990s, to investment firm Columbus Nova.

SOE has been renamed Daybreak Game Company and will operate as an independent game development studio producing titles for the PlayStation and Xbox...

From CNET: Android 5.0 Lollipop finally has enough market share to appear on Google's radar.

According to the latest version of the Android Developers Dashboard, published on Monday, Lollipop has found itself a home on 1.6 percent of Android devices. That percentage accounts for all Android devices...

From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) had some successes to be grateful for in Q4 2014, growing sales of its Lumia smartphones to a record 10.5 million units. But much of that volume was driven by low end models like the Lumia 530 and Lumia 630/635; Microsoft's sales have slowed on the mid-range...