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Boost Mobile customers will be able to buy Samsung’s new Galaxy S6 smartphone with no annual contract for $649.99. The new smartphone, and its flashier sibling, the Galaxy S6 Edge, will be released by Samsung April 10 and will also be available through the big four wireless carriers in the United States: AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile […]

Intel reportedly is negotiating to acquire chip maker Altera, a deal that would be the company’s largest since buying security software maker McAfee in 2011 for $7.7 billion. According to The Wall Street Journal, the deal for Altera would be in the range of $10.4 billion, and would bring together two chip companies that have […]

Amazon, the first Internet services provider to go mainstream with cloud storage in 2006, revealed March 26 that it now is offering two unlimited cloud storage plans with Amazon Cloud Drive: Unlimited Everything or Unlimited Photos. Photos and video and other images can all be housed in Unlimited Everything. But for those are totally focused […]

Microsoft is once again imploring government leaders to rein in the National Security Agency. Fred Humphries, vice president of U.S. Government Affairs for Microsoft, announced that the company is calling for reforms to the USA Patriot Act that will end bulk data collection and allow companies to be transparent about information requests. Microsoft, in the […]

Hey there, here are your top news stories from eWEEK, sponsored by Dell and Intel. Today’s stories include news about Microsoft’s productivity apps, lawsuits being filed to block FCC network neutrality rules, an expanded FTC consumer fraud protection unit and an interesting battery experiment happening at Purdue University. Microsoft is bringing the company’s productivity apps […]

Hewlett Packard expanded its Compute portfolio with two ProLiant Gen9 Tower servers, which are aimed at small- to medium-size businesses. The servers are designed to run general purpose workloads and applications such as IT infrastructure, collaboration, Web and business applications. The servers include the ProLiant ML10 v2, an entry-level 10 Series tower server with increased […]

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 […]