Industry

Microsoft won’t discount Windows 8.1 upgrades

It's free to Windows 8 users, but anyone with the older Windows 7 must pony up full price -- $120 or $200

Patent trolls face a new deterrent: The RICO Act

Suing patent trolls for extortion sounds like a great idea, but making the charges stick can be tricky

BlackBerry sale might not include smartphones

Analysts see considerable value in BlackBerry's secure network, BB 10 operating system and patents, but little in its smartphone business

Bing gets a tuneup, but still grapples with the query: ‘How to top Google?’

Bing is getting a new logo, a refreshed interface, and improved search functions

Mobile for the masses: Sign, seal, and deliver your Android app

IBM hopes to Power cloud, analytics with $1 billion Linux investment

IBM will fund development of Linux applications and expansion of a Linux cloud service

Bad to worse for APPLE — BOX (and everyone else) takes on Office — Inside CIA’s SPOOK VC — MOZILLA’s touch-based browser delayed — BRYAN GOLDBERG gets New Yorker treatment

Juniper ships SDN controller, dismisses OpenDaylight technology

Offers its own OpenContrail controller as open source network virtualization alternative

Oracle to put on its innovation game face at OpenWorld

Oracle will attempt to out-cool Salesforce.com's Dreamforce at its upcoming conference, analyst says

PC satisfaction scores dip as customers drift to tablets

Apple again takes top honors, but the disconnect between Windows 8 and old-style hardware devices affects satisfaction score of PC makers, pollster says