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Apple readies another crack at ending Yosemite’s Wi-Fi ills

Quickening tempo of 10.10.2 beta releases hints at impending final release

Microsoft results buoyed by cloud products, but profit drops

The company's commercial cloud revenue more than doubled, but consumer software sales took a hit in Asia/Pacific

Facebook, Instagram temporarily down in many countries, hack denied

Users in various locations worldwide reported an outage in service in HipChat and Tinder as well

IT jobs outlook: High demand, higher salaries

Tech professionals are netting slightly bigger paychecks in 2015

Get ready for the 24-hour laptop: Battery life hits new highs

Panasonic's new Toughbook 31 offers 18 hours of battery life

Is Windows 10 really a threat to desktop Linux?

In today's open source roundup: Will Windows 10 hurt Linux on the desktop? Plus: Lean Linux distributions, and Samsung's Tizen versus Google's Android Wear

All signs point to the demise of Microsoft’s Surface tablet

Microsoft is within a whisker of calling it quits on its failed experiment with the Surface tablet

North Carolina could be next in Google Fiber roll-out

Celebrating the top software and hardware of the year

The 2015 Technology of the Year Awards is an embarrassment of riches, with more inventive new products and technologies than we've ever seen arrive in a single year

Downloading Windows 10 build 9926? Get KB 3034229 ASAP

Here’s what to do immediately after you install the Windows 10 January Technical Preview