From PC World: Mozilla is planning to gradually favor HTTPS (HTTP Secure) connections over non-secure HTTP connections by making some new features on its Firefox browser available only to secured sites.

The browser developer decided after a discussion on its community mailing list that it will set...

From CNET: The Sony Xperia Z3 smartphone has made its return to T-Mobile about a month after it unceremoniously dropped off store shelves.

Customers looking to buy Sony's flagship smartphone can find it once again through T-Mobile for no money down and 24 monthly installments of $20.83 -- or for...

From CNET: Controversial music-streaming service Grooveshark shuttered its service Thursday after settling a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the major recording labels.

Escape Media, the parent company of Grooveshark, agreed to cease operations and surrender ownership of its website, mobile...

From InfoWorld: Amazon has acquired ClusterK, a developer of software that helps companies run mission-critical applications on spare cloud compute capacity sold by Amazon Web Services.

A spokeswoman for AWS confirmed the acquisition, but did not provide further details.

Spot instances are spare...

From PC World: Apple Watch production has been hampered by defective components from a supplier, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Taptic engines produced by one supplier, AAC Technologies, in Shenzhen, China, began to fail reliability tests after Apple ramped up watch production in...

From CNET: Qualcomm, the world's biggest maker of chips for mobile devices, is under a lot of pressure from its competitors these days.

It's seen its Snapdragon processor replaced by a Samsung-made chip in Samsung's flagship Galaxy S6 phones -- a switch that's costing Qualcomm hundreds of millions...

From DailyTech: Today at its BUILD 2015 (/b) convention in San Francisco, Calif., Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) operating systems corporate vice president (CVP) Joe Belfiore let slip a key piece of the Windows puzzle. He revealed that the new browser in the consumer-facing builds of Windows 10 would be...

From InfoWorld: Soon, when you do a search on your iPhone for someone's contact info, a recent tweet from them might also pop up.

Twitter is working with Apple to incorporate Twitter content and accounts into Apple's Spotlight search feature, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said during the company's...

From PC World: The software that controls wireless networking chipsets made by Realtek Semiconductor contains a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to compromise home routers.

The flaw exists in a firmware component called miniigd that’s present in router models based on Realtek...

From CNET: Samsung Electronics has recaptured its title as the world's top smartphone maker, according to new research released Tuesday.

The South Korean electronics giant shipped 83.2 million smartphones worldwide during the first quarter of 2015, capturing 24 percent of the smartphone market...