From PC World: Hobbyists are getting a lot of love, with big companies like Microsoft, Intel and IBM releasing circuit board computers to conceptualize and prototype products. Imagination is now entering the fray with its $65 Creator CI20 computer, which takes some of the hassle out of DIY micro...

From CNET: The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have delivered a huge surge in sales for Apple globally, according to a new report.

For the three months ending in October, Apple's share of smartphone sales in Europe rose by 5.7 percentage points from a year ago t0 20.7 percent courtesy of the new iPhones...

From DailyTech: Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android 5.0 Lollipop saw a soft launch in mid-October and hit official AOSP (Android Open Source Project) status roughly two and a half weeks later, on Nov. 3. It's been roughly a month since that rollout and it's been a rather painfully slow rollout process...

From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services is providing more payment options for its cloud-based virtual machines, allowing users to lock in a price and pay either entirely upfront, or throughout the life of a one- or three-year contract.

AWS has a variety of ways customers can pay for using its cloud...

From PC World: Dynamics customers can now get their hands on the suite’s latest update, which includes the ability to add the Cortana voice-command technology to the company’s CRM software.

Users will be able to speak voice commands to the software by using the Cortana personal assistant, which...

From CNET: Mozilla apparently is trying anew to gain a browser foothold on iOS, the operating system that powers Apple's iPhones and iPads.

Johnathan Nightingale, vice president of Firefox at Mozilla, told Mozilla community members about the idea on Tuesday at the non-profit organization's...

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) was the subject of some critical reports in September when at a week after the release of iOS 8, only 46 percent of iPhone users worldwide had upgraded. The cause for concern, the reasoning went, was that iOS 8 adoption was tracking slower than iOS 7 adoption...

From InfoWorld: As anticipated, Mozilla today updated Firefox to version 34, automatically switching the browser's default search from Google to Yahoo for most users in North America.

Firefox 34 launched early Monday to little fanfare from Mozilla, who touted it only on the update's Notes page...

From PC World: Hewlett-Packard isn’t making bones about the fact that the Unix OS market is in decline, but the company believes its HP-UX has a long life ahead for customers using its fault-tolerant servers.

The company has a road map for HP-UX into 2022, which could possibly expand into 2025...

From CNET: Streaming media devices, like set-top boxes that connect to a television or sticks that plug into an HDMI port, have proven even more popular this year than last, a new study shows.

During the first three quarters of 2014, 10 percent of US households that have a broadband connection have...