From InfoWorld: Apple has rehired a mobile encryption pioneer as it continues to face pressure from governments wanting access to user data stored on iPhones.

Jon Callas most recently worked as a co-founder of Silent Circle, which produced the security-minded Blackphone and has joined the iPhone...

From PC World: Down, but not out: Microsoft is laying off another 1,850 staff from its smartphone hardware business, but says it isn’t leaving the market completely.

What’s left of the old Nokia business in Finland will be hardest hit by the latest round of lay-offs, with up to 1,350 jobs to go...

From CNET: You will soon be able to shoehorn more into your tweets without going over the 140-character limit.

The microblogging service said Tuesday that it will soon introduce changes that will exempt certain features from counting toward that limit, including media attachments such as photos...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has scaled back its Windows 10 release schedule to two feature upgrades annually, not the three per year it once said was its plan.

The Redmond, Wash. company has hinted since November that it would cut back on the number of Windows 10 upgrades. That's when it began to...

From CNET: Spotify's pioneering streaming-music business, now emulated by the likes of Google and Apple, pulled in revenue of 1.95 billion euros ($2.18 billion) in 2015, a healthy 81 percent over the $1.21 billion the Swedish company garnered the year before.

But according to the figures, released...

From PC World: Oracle and Google’s fierce court fight over the code inside Android went to a jury on Monday after closing arguments that sharply differed on the most basic issues.

The federal jury in San Francisco is now deciding whether Google’s use of copyrighted Java code constitutes fair use...

From InfoWorld: More personal computers powered by Google's Chrome OS shipped in the U.S. during the first quarter than those running Apple's OS X in the same period, IDC confirmed Friday.

"Chrome PCs overall, including Chrome desktop units like the Chromebox, out-shipped all Apple personal...

From PC World: It took hackers less than two weeks to integrate a recently patched Flash Player exploit into widely used Web-based attack tools that are being used to infect computers with malware.

The vulnerability, known as CVE-2016-4117, was discovered earlier this month by security researchers...

From CNET: Apple may be counting on healthy sales for this year's iPhone despite the gloom and doom predicted by many analysts.

The company has reportedly asked its suppliers to manufacture 72 to 78 million new iPhones by year's end, Barron's Asia reported Monday, quoting from Taiwan's Economic...