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For the past two years, smartphone sales have declined in Japan, which raised eyebrows there because Japan has long been a global leader in mobile phone trends. Some 5.3 percent fewer smartphones were sold in Japan in 2014 than in 2013. Meanwhile, shipments of dumb “flip-phones” rose by 5.7 percent in 2014 compared to 2013. […]

Microsoft is working to ensure that cultural fabric of some ethnic populations doesn’t fade away because today’s software doesn’t speak their language. While celebrating UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day, Microsoft showed off its progress in making technology more accessible to users who may not speak a major language or have a way in which to […]

Apple is looking to diversify its business into electric car production, possibly by as soon as 2020. The electric car efforts were revealed in Feb. 19 reports by The New York Times and by Bloomberg based on anonymous sources who described the project as growing and in a “prototype phase.” The Times reported that Apple […]

Organizations aren’t properly patching their systems, according to the findings of Hewlett-Packard’s 2015 Cyber Risk report. The study used data collected across HP’s security teams in 2014 to determine that 44 percent of system breaches could be attributed to patched vulnerabilities that were between 2 and 4 years old. Jewel Timpe, manager of threat research […]

Until now, Microsoft has closely guarded its developer base, forcing developers to adhere to “either-or” scenarios of Java versus .NET or open-source versus Microsoft. But now, Microsoft is now taking .NET to places it has never been or would never even venture: cross-platform, open source and to the cloud. Microsoft is using its .NET development […]

Google announced it is closing its Google Code open-source project hosting service and moving projects to GitHub. Google launched Google Code in 2006, but disabled new project creation on the site on March 12. As of August 24 the site goes read-only and on January 25, 2016, the hosting service will be closed completely. Chris […]

Hey there, here are your top news stories from eWEEK, sponsored by Dell and Intel. Today’s topics include new networking products from Juniper Networks, news about Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, information on Google’s Cloud Storage Nearline and an update on Apple’s Force Touch technology. Juniper Networks introduced several new networking products during a […]

Three years after Facebook kicked off the Open Compute Project, officials have announced that the carbon savings related to the power saved through the use of open hardware is equal to taking 95,000 cars off the road. At the March 10 OCP Summit Facebook officials talked about several projects within the OCP the company has […]

In 2014, Hewlett-Packard announced a partnership with contract manufacturer Foxconn to build open, low-cost servers for cloud environments that would enable the tech giant to push back at the encroachment of white-box server models in the data center. On March 10, HP unveiled the first fruits of the Foxconn partnership, announcing a new family of […]

As expected, Apple took the wraps off its upcoming Apple Watch on March 9, showing off the smartwatches that will start at $349 for a Sport version. Apple also finally released pricing details on its luxury Watch Edition, which begin at a cool $10,000 for a Watch in 18-karat gold. There was more at the […]