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ZTE will bring second wave of Firefox OS phones to US next year

ZTE will begin selling its Grand S and Nubia phones in the U.S. through retailers starting in October

BlackBerry Messenger for Android and iPhone will not roll out this week

The company is trying to block an unreleased version of the Android app that has been downloaded by over 1 million active users

MICROSOFT answers Apple with, er, Surface 2 — BLACKBERRY bought for patent cudgel — FLIPBOARD approaches $1B valuation — BETAWORKS threatens VC model

Microsoft puts Windows XP laggards in a pinch

Windows 8.1 is no longer recommended for upgrades, and a Windows 7 sales cut-off looms

BlackBerry’s future — or what’s left of it — is in messenger services, not devices

The former king of business smartphones needs to ditch devices entirely and focus on being the enterprise-grade messaging service provider it's always been

Oracle: We’re getting Java security under control

Most problems date back more than a decade and resulted from old versions of Java being run, a company official insists

Surface 2 branding, specs, and pricing: Wrong, wrong, and wrong

Microsoft could've hit several home runs; instead, Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 are largely marginal improvements to the originals

Review: Samsung Ativ Book 6 goes big for gamers — business users, too

A desktop replacement built for gaming, the 15-inch Book 6 is powerful, cool, quiet, and comfortable

The (welcome) rise of the cloud middleman

A new breed of managed services providers are gearing up to be the cloud brokers and integrators of the future

7 hidden gems in iOS 7

You may not discover these features quickly on your own, but you'll be happy when you do