Six months after launch, Windows 10 has finally leapfrogged over both XP and 8.1 to become the second most popular desktop operating system in terms of Web traffic. In January, Windows 10 snagged a global market share of 11.85 percent, up from 9.96 percent in December, researcher Net Market Share reported Monday. The latest number …

Try to launch an iTunes Radio station on your Apple device or your computer, and you’ll now be prompted to subscribe to Apple Music. Launched in 2013, iTunes Radio had been a free, ad-supported way to listen to stations devoted to specific artists and genres. But as announced earlier this month, Apple has turned off the free tap as of …

Google shelled out some cash last fall after losing and regaining ownership of Google.com. Now the company has revealed how much the slip-up cost. Former Google employee Sanmay Ved purchased Google.com for $12 at 1:20 a.m. ET on September 29. He bought the domain name on the Google Domains registration service website after the company somehow lost ownership of it. …

The pitches almost write themselves: “Mozart in Cupertino.” “Unbreakable Timmy Cook.” There’s no telling what new series we’ll be binge-watching if a recent report is on the money and Apple starts churning out original TV shows. The Cupertino, California-based tech giant has been speaking with TV producers and studios about creating programs that would be offered exclusively to iTunes customers, …

Apple Stores employees stick with their jobs and there’s a good reason for that, says the company’s retail chief. The company employs around 60,000 store workers and ended 2015 with a retention rate of 81 percent, Apple vice president of retail and online stores Angela Ahrendts told Fast Company in an interview published Wednesday. That’s the highest retention rate Apple …

T-Mobile subscribers can now watch even more video without eating into their monthly data plan. On Thursday, the carrier announced that it added Amazon Prime Video, Fox News, Univision Now and the WWE Network to its Binge On service. This means that any videos T-Mobile customers watch from those providers over their mobile device don’t count against their monthly data …

Apple may create a version of the iPhone 7 Plus with two rear-facing camera lenses to offer and combine wide-angle and telephoto shots, according to an analyst. The dual-camera scenario comes from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Both lenses would offer 12 megapixels of resolution, Kuo said Wednesday in an investors note seen by AppleInsider. One lens would be a …

Samsung could join its archrival Apple in offering consumers a way to upgrade to a new phone every year. The South Korean mobile phone maker plans to launch a smartphone upgrade program, the Electronic Times said on Wednesday, citing anonymous sources. The program would allow consumers to pay a monthly installment fee to lease a phone and then exchange it …

Apple may have reported essentially flat iPhone sales in its quarterly earnings report Tuesday, but the device is still hot in the world’s biggest markets, according to new research. During the final quarter of 2015, the iPhone regained its status as the top smartphone brand in both the US and China, research firm Kantar Worldpanel ComTech said on Wednesday. “Apple …

Add in another change to Twitter’s executive ranks already this week. On Tuesday, the microblogging site announced that its new chief marketing officer will be Leslie Berland, formerly marketing vice president at American Express. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed the new hire via a tweet in which he said that Berland will “join as our CMO to help tell the …