Microsoft’s Windows Phone may be a dud in the marketplace, but you will see other software from the company on mobile devices after a deal announced Tuesday with Chinese phone maker Xiaomi. That’s because Xiaomi will install Microsoft Office and Skype on some of its Android phones, the companies said. “Beginning in September 2016, Xiaomi …

One problem with shooting virtual reality video: There’s nowhere for the crew doing the shooting to hide from a camera that sees around a full 360-degree circle. Startup Double Robotics on Wednesday announced a product it thinks will help. The company already sells telepresence robots in the form of a $3,000 iPad on a stalk that rolls around under the …

Microsoft inadvertently opened the spam floodgates for users of its Outlook.com email service for nearly 17 hours before fixing the problem Wednesday. These days we rely on email services to shield us from countless messages stuffed with financial scams and pharmaceutical product offers. But it was tough to sift the wheat from the chaff on Outlook.com for a good chunk …

Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 7 may not feature drastic changes 2:31 Enlarge Image The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus’ successors could double storage to 256GB. Sarah Tew/CNET Apple’s upcoming iPhone 7 will be available with a whopping 256GB of storage space, matching the iPad Pro and offering lots more room for apps and videos, an analyst firm predicted Wednesday. …

That Windows 7 PC you got back in 2009 is powerful enough to handle Microsoft’s latest operating system — but that could change, because Microsoft is increasing its minimum system requirements. The upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update will need a minimum of 2GB of memory, according to a Microsoft developer page. That was the minimum already required for 64-bit versions …

Spotify’s pioneering streaming-music business, now emulated by the likes of Google and Apple, pulled in revenue of 1.95 billion euros ($2.18 billion) in 2015, a healthy 81 percent over the $1.21 billion the Swedish company garnered the year before. But according to the figures, released in a regulatory filing and published by the Wall Street Journal and Music Business Worldwide, …

Acadine Technologies, a startup trying to give phone users a software alternative to the dominant powers of Google and Apple, is on its last legs. With no new funding in hand, last month’s warnings of possible layoffs at Acadine are materializing. The company’s entire engineering staff will lose their jobs this week. In addition, the Hong Kong-based startup is warning …

Nokia, the Finnish company that embodied the mobile phone revolution until Silicon Valley giants pushed it aside, will live on again as phone brand. Undoing a portion of its 2014 acquisition of Nokia’s phone business, Microsoft is selling off its low-end phone unit as part of a $350 million deal announced Wednesday that will see about 4,500 employees leave the …

Those with Android-powered phones sometimes have enjoyed the fruits of Google’s labor earlier than those with iPhones — the Chrome browser, for example, or the ability to store Google Maps for offline use. But people with Apple’s iOS-powered mobile devices were the first to get Gboard, the search-enabled, emoji-rich, GIF-infused keyboard that Google released Thursday. Relax, Android users: You apparently …

It won’t displace Google’s Chrome anytime soon as the most-used Web browser, but startup Vivaldi has won over a respectable chunk of users in its six months since launch. The company, based in Oslo, Norway, is a philosophical offshoot of the Opera browser. Opera came from the same city and, in part, from the same man, Jon von Tetzchner. After …