From DailyTech: With Windows 10's release Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is clearly shaking up its traditional business and software models, delivering an OS for free to consumers (mostly) and continuing its shift to an all-internet distribution model. It's also disabled the user ability to indefinitely...

From InfoWorld: John Curran, CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), told attendees at the Campus Technology conference in Boston on Wednesday that the IP address authority's pool of IPv4 addresses has dwindled to 90,000 and will be exhausted in about two weeks.

"This is a pretty...

From ComputerWorld: Lackluster demand for its flagship Galaxy S6 smartphone and higher marketing costs led Samsung Electronics to another quarter of falling sales and profits in the April to June period.

Net profit at the company was 5.75 trillion won (US$49 billion), down 8 percent on the same...

From InfoWorld: Beta testers: to the App Store! Apple released an update to the El Capitan public beta on Wednesday, the third version. If three is your lucky number, we've got instructions on how to sign up for the beta program, and a how-to on filing feedback when you encounter bugs. Once you're...

From PC World: Oracle is looking to expand the market for its Sparc-based servers with a new, low-cost processor dubbed Sonoma that its engineers will discuss publically for the first time later this month.

The company isn’t saying yet when the chip will be available, but if it delivers as...

From CNET: T-Mobile has shown it can win over customers at an impressive rate. Now it needs to prove it can consistently make money doing so.

If the second quarter's results are any indication, T-Mobile is off to a good start. The nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier posted a profit of $361...

From ComputerWorld: Twitter reported a higher than expected increase in revenue on Tuesday, suggesting progress in the company's efforts to grow its ad sales.

Total revenue for the second quarter ending June 30 was US$502 million, Twitter reported, up 61 percent from the same period last year, and...

From InfoWorld: To fill computers' voracious appetite for data, Intel and Micron say they've developed the first new kind of memory since NAND flash was introduced in 1989.

The new technology, 3D XPoint, is a form of non-volatile memory that's as much as 1,000 times faster than NAND flash, the...

From PC World: Enterprise customers can expect to hear more from e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. The Chinese company is accelerating the global expansion of its cloud computing business, with a US$1 billion investment.

Alibaba announced the move on Wednesday, months after it opened its first data...

From CNET: Nintendo's Wii U, which hasn't budged from third place in the console space, has finally reached an important milestone.

Nintendo sold its 10 millionth Wii U during its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, nearly three years after the console hit store shelves, the company reported on...