From DailyTech: Paul Thurrott, proprietor of the Supersite for Windows and various other blogs, has a pretty good track record when it comes to having the inside scoop on upcoming, unannounced Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) news. According to a Monday post from Thurrott his sources have confirmed that...

From InfoWorld: With the release of the Nginx 1.9.0 Web server, Nginx has taken TCP load-balancing capabilities from its commercial Nginx Plus product and fitted it to the company's open source technology.

TCP load balancing improves failover consistency among worker processes, according to Nginx...

From PC World: Google has introduced a service for storing large amounts of data online, potentially enabling organizations to execute big data analysis as a cloud service.

The offering, called Google Cloud Bigtable, “is based on technology that Google has been running internally for many years, so...

From CNET: If you live in either Hong Kong or Singapore and have been waiting for Xiaomi's Mi 4i since it was released two weeks ago in India, the Chinese smartphone maker announced that the $205 phone will hit these markets on May 12. Announcements for Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia will be made...

From DailyTech: The slow pace of updates to bring users to the latest and greatest version of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android -- the world's most used mobile operating system -- is a well documented and much discussed problem. The slower adoption cycle ultimately stems from the fact that Google does...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft today launched a broader-based public preview of Office 2016 for Windows, expanding on the March sneak peek that was available only to subscribers of select business-grade Office 365 plans.

The new desktop suite includes Access, Excel, Lync, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint...

From PC World: Netflix has released under an open-source license an internal tool it developed to manage a deluge of security alerts and incidents.

Called FIDO (Fully Integrated Defense Operation), the tool is designed to research, score and categorize threats in order to speed up handling of the...

From CNET: Sprint remains the third largest major carrier in the US due to subscriber gains for two quarters in a row. But the company's aggressive promotions to attract new customers have put it in the red.

Sprint on Tuesday reported it added a total of 1.2 million new customers during its fourth...

From DailyTech: Introduced in 2002, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) was billed as a tool that would turn your Windows PC into a digital video recorder (DVR) and media hub. The star of the show was the titular Windows Media Center (WMC), which Microsoft had developed...

From InfoWorld: Mozilla is on a mission to make encryption on the Web ubiquitous, but the cost could prove too high to pay.

In a blog post made last week, Firefox Security Lead Richard Barnes declared that Mozilla would be "setting a date after which all new features [in Firefox] will be available...