From PC World: Disk storage sales grew more strongly in the third quarter, helped by sales of non-branded storage gear sold directly to datacenters.

Third-quarter disk storage sales jumped 5.1 percent year over year, reaching US$8.8 billion, according to research firm IDC. This was a change from...

From CNET: The security breach suffered by Sony Pictures Entertainment last month appears to have leaked far more personal information than previously believed, revealing the US Social Security numbers of more than 47,000 celebrities, freelancers, and current and former Sony employees.

An analysis...

From DailyTech: Bluetooth communications saw a big leap with the launch of Bluetooth 4.0 in 2009 and things have been moving along at a fast pace ever since. It was just one year ago when the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) (the trade group which promotes the short-range wireless...

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...