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Mozilla on Friday spelled out major changes to one of Firefox's strengths -- its deep ecosystem of add-ons -- that will make it easier for developers to port Google Chrome extensions to Firefox.

The Linux Foundation is organizing a collaborative effort with 13 tech companies to promote open source software and standards for cloud object storage technologies.

Spotify is trying to calm down users after many threatened to stop using the music streaming service that recently announced significant changes to its user terms and conditions.

A recent U.S. regulation requiring companies to disclose whether they are acquiring minerals from war zones seems like a good idea, especially for the tech industry, which sees itself as socially consciencious and environmentally responsible. But in practice, it may be very difficult to enforce.

Intuit yesterday announced that it would sell its Quicken unit, the group that creates the personal finance software that made the company famous.

Recent visitors to Plenty of Fish (pof.com), an online dating website with over 3 million daily active users, had their browsers redirected to exploits that installed malware.

Android OS developer Cyanogen is bringing its operating system to another Chinese smartphone, this time from a company founded by Lenovo.

Samsung Electronics is offering U.S. iPhone owners the chance to test its latest Galaxy smartphones for 30 days for $1, as it hopes to make a dent in Apple's dominance of the high end of the market.

Samsung wants you to test-drive one of its flagship phones. iPhone users can try a Galaxy S6 edge+, Note5, or the smaller S6 edge for 30 days, with (ahem) "no obligation." It's free (if you don't count the $1 fee and the risk you might break or lose it).

The woes of AshleyMadison.com’s owners continued Thursday, with a second release of internal data that security experts suspect is authentic.

Google's Life Sciences unit, whose projects include a smart contact lens for measuring blood glucose levels, will become an independent company within Alphabet under Google's reorganization.

Hewlett-Packard doesn't officially become two companies until Nov. 1, but the company has already separated its internal systems and is effectively operating as two businesses.

When you buy a new Windows PC, you expect it to be clean and lean, starting up fast and speeding through your work as quickly as you need it to.

Facebook released as open source a library it uses to generate code, providing a way for outside programmers to automate some of the routine work they do when creating large programs.

Image by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center CC BY 2.0

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Flashback to about 2008, when this company's workstations are all still running Windows XP and Office 2003, according to an IT pilot fish on the scene.

Four successive lightning strikes on a local utility grid in Europe caused a data loss at Google's Belgium data center. For Google, a company with a self-described "appetite for accuracy" in its data center operations, admitting an unrecoverable data loss as small as 0.000001% -- as it did -- likely came with a little bit of pain.

Apple’s wearable platform is on a mission to weave itself around our lives, one app (and wrist) at a time. What follows are a ten recently introduced Apple Watch apps you really should explore:

Hewlett-Packard has reported another quarter of declining profits and revenue, with its massive corporate split now less than three months away.

Google has been ordered to remove links to news articles reporting on the company's earlier removal of links in response to a "right to be forgotten" request in Europe.