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...

From PC World: For the past several days security researchers have raced to demonstrate that phishing protections added by a new Google Chrome extension can be bypassed with ease.

The Password Alert extension, developed by Google and released Wednesday, is designed to alert Chrome users when they...

From PC World: Facebook’s Internet.org has opened its free Internet access platform to any low-bandwidth online service that meets its technical guidelines for running on basic phones.

Internet.org’s goal is to provide underprivileged people in Asia, Africa and Latin America with access to select...

From CNET: Facebook wants to publish news articles and other content from sites like The New York Times and National Geographic directly on the social network. And in return, it's offering to let those third-party publishers keep all the revenue from some of the ads associated with their content...