Amazon rolls out $9.99 Kindle Unlimited monthly subscription

From CNET: Amazon has unveiled a new subscription service dubbed Kindle Unlimited that offers all-you-can-eat e-books and audiobooks for $9.99 per month.

Launched Friday, Kindle Unlimited lets you borrow as many books as you want at a single time from a collection of 600,000 Kindle titles and...

SAP sees cloud revenue soar, software sales drop in Q2

From InfoWorld: SAP reported strong growth in cloud revenue in the second quarter, while its software revenue continued to fall, reflecting a shift in the market from on-premises software and services to applications delivered through the cloud on a subscription model.

The business software company...

Samsung to return to Apple's chipmaking fold in 2015, report says

From CNET: Samsung will challenge Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, as a supplier of processors to Apple next year, a Reuters report claims.

"TSMC will be supplanted by Samsung" for the production of next-generation 14-nanometer...

HTC One M8 Finally Gets Wi-Fi Calling on Sprint

From DailyTech: Sprint Corp. (S) -- the third largest cellular carrier in the U.S. -- has added support for Wi-Fi calling and HD Voice (wideband audio) for the HTC One M8, the flagship smartphone of Taiwan's HTC Corp. (TPE:2498). The One M8 is one of the top high-end Android phones at Sprint, who...

Mozilla's JPEG compression slims down file sizes

From InfoWorld: Mozilla has released an updated version of its JPEG compression tool that shaves down file sizes by 5 percent, a small figure but one that is significant for image-intensive Web services such as Facebook.

The tool, called mozjpeg 2.0, will ultimately "reduce page load times and...

Intel's Haswell coming to Xeon E5 chips this quarter

From PC World: Intel has started shipping Xeon E5 chips based on the Haswell microarchitecture to server makers, and the chip will be in servers this quarter.

The Xeon E5 chips typically go into two-socket and four-socket servers and are the company’s biggest-selling server products. The new chips...

Nokia Lumia 635 to arrive at AT&T next week for $99

From CNET: Following close behind T-Mobile, AT&T announced Tuesday it will offer the Lumia 635 beginning July 25.

AT&T customers can pick up the 4G LTE-ready budget handset on the carrier's prepaid wireless service GoPhone for $99. Versions of the 4.5-inch handset sporting black and orange back...

Apple, IBM Announce Strategic Partnership in Enterprise Mobility

From DailyTech: Microsoft may have recently announced its intentions to become a “productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world,” but it looks like longtime rival Apple has plans of its own in addressing the needs of enterprise customers and has brought in the big guns...

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