Like Google and Microsoft, Adobe Systems has been bitten by the hardware bug. The software company announced Tuesday that it will begin selling its Mighty digital pen — a stylus for iPads that it first demonstrated in prototype form in May. And it announced two new iOS app prototypes, Parallel and Contour, that make use …

Linux is growing — that we knew. Now we know how fast. In the last two years, the number of developers who collectively create Linux has increased from 1,131 with version 3.0 in July 2011 to 1,392 with version 3.10, released in June 2013, according to the Linux Foundation’s latest annual Linux development report. Also on the rise: the lines …

Apple injected a lot of marketing hyperbole into its claims about the wonders of 64-bit computing when it showed off the A7 processor at the heart of the new iPhone 5S. But there are real long-term reasons that Apple is smart to move beyond the 32-bit era in mobile computing. The iPhone maker did indeed beat its smartphone rivals to …

The decision to sell Nokia’s devices and services division to Microsoft for $7.2 billion was a difficult choice, but market dynamics meant it was the only practical one, the Finnish company’s outgoing CEO Stephen Elop and interim CEO Risto Siilasmaa said Tuesday. “We need more combined muscle to truly break through with consumers,” Elop said in a press conference in …

In a comment that should surprise no one, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Tuesday that Nokia’s Stephen Elop is a candidate to replace him. “Stephen will go from external [candidate] to internal,” Ballmer told the Seattle Times, though he also said the Microsoft board will evaluate all candidates. Elop led Microsoft’s Microsoft Office division until he left to become …

Under Nokia’s plan to sell its mobile-phone business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion, the company will lose its biggest tie with consumers. So what would the new Nokia look like? Very different. It’ll have three businesses, and only the smallest, the Nokia Here mapping service, will be something the average person might see when using a smartphone app or in-dash …

Digg, trying hard to reclaim its once-prominent position as a go-to site for interesting links on the Net, has released an Android app that combines discovery with RSS reading. “Like the Web version of Digg, the Android app includes up-to-the-minute stories from the Digg homepage as well as Digg Reader, all optimized for your Android device,” Digg said in a …

An update to Flickr for iOS released Thursday lets people try out filters before they take a photo. Filters, popularized by apps like Facebook’s Instagram, give a different style or look to a photo, and Flickr has been playing catch-up with its mobile apps. The new version of the app lets people try the effects in advance with live filters, …

Telepathy, a Silicon Valley startup, has raised $5 million in a first round of funding to develop wearable computing technology that rivals Google Glass. “Wearable technology will enable the next wave in social networking,” Telepathy CEO Takahito Iguchi said in a statement. “The $5 million funding will enable us to enrich the user experience of Telepathy One, which we expect …

Geeksphone on Thursday began taking preorders for its upcoming Peak+, a smartphone that marks the startup’s expansion from earlier developer-oriented Firefox OS models to ones geared for consumers. The Peak+, with a promotional preorder price of 149 euros ($197) while stock lasts, is a tweak to the earlier Peak model for developers. It’s got 1GB of memory instead of 512MB, …