From DailyTech: Mozilla is now taking pre-orders for its unlocked “Flame” smartphone, which runs the company’s Firefox OS. Flame is aimed squarely at developers and will be available globally.

“We worked with the manufacturer to keep the price as low as possible,” explained Mozilla when talking...

From InfoWorld: Oracle has released a framework that allows multiple copies of the MySQL database to work in tandem, making it easier for organizations to easily run live backup databases and scale MySQL across multiple servers.

"The Fabric manages a farm of MySQL servers," said Tomas Ulin, Oracle...

From PC World: The age of sideloading extensions is over for Chrome users on Windows PCs. After announcing Chrome would become a walled garden in November, Google followed through with its promise on Tuesday.

Chrome for Windows will no longer allow you to install browser extensions originating...

From CNET: Microsoft plans to roll out a real-time language translation feature for its popular Internet phone service by the end of the year, the company announced Tuesday.

The feature, dubbed Skype Translator, was demonstrated Tuesday by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during an onstage interview at...

From DailyTech: With all the leaks and teasers that have been posted about the LG G3 over the past few months, most people are probably to the point where they are going “Just get on with it already!”

LG offiially rolled out the phone today, confirming quite a few things that we’ve already heard...

From InfoWorld: A security researcher who found a major vulnerability in eBay's website last week said a second flaw he found hasn't been fixed and could be used to hijack user accounts.

Jordan Lee Jones, a 19-year-old college student who lives in Stockton-on-Tees, U.K, said he notified eBay on...

From PC World: Poor Lenovo. HP co-opted its contortionist laptop design in February with the Pavilion x360, and now Toshiba is introducing a Yoga copycat. The Satellite Radius is a 15.6-inch convertible with a 360-degree hinge that offers five usage modes: Laptop, tablet, presentation, audience, and...

From CNET: Apple continues to work on ARM-based versions of its Mac line, according to spate of reports from blogs that follow Apple.

So, is Apple considering OS X-based Macs using its own A series processors or other ARM processors? Yes (it would be dumb if it didn't). Will Apple actually make the...

From DailyTech: With all the leaks and teasers that have been posted about the LG G3 over the past few months, most people are probably to the point where they are going “Just get on with it already!” Perhaps LG Netherlands and LG UK were also getting a little anxious to get things moving ahead of...

From ComputerWorld: Following up on a jury verdict, Apple has asked a court in California to order Samsung Electronics to stop using features that were found to infringe three of its patents.

The company has also asked the court to review damages awarded by the jury or to order a retrial.

The...