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Mozilla CEO slams Microsoft over Windows 10 browser defaults

Mozilla’s CEO complains that Firefox is being Edged out by Microsoft. CNET Mozilla isn’t happy with Microsoft’s decision to make its Edge the default browser in Windows 10, and the Firefox maker’s chief executive has taken his displeasure public. In an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Mozilla CEO Chris Beard accuses Microsoft of hobbling users’ browser choices by …

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Sony’s profit up, despite ongoing troubles in mobile

Sony chief Kazuo Hirai was once high on smartphones. Now, he wants to focus efforts elsewhere. CBS Interactive Sony’s troubles in mobile are cutting deeply into the company’s pockets, a second-quarter earnings release shows. Sony’s Mobile & Communications division, which includes the sale of smartphones, saw revenue decline by 16.3 percent year-over-year to $2.3 billion (PDF). The division’s operating loss, …

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IBM’s Watson wants to make you healthier in deal with CVS Health

IBM’s Watson computer is aiming to make you healthier with a new partnership with CVS. IBM IBM has teamed up with CVS Health, the operator of thousands of drugstores across the US, in a bid to more accurately predict a person’s health troubles and provide advice. The two companies have formed a partnership that will feed IBM’s Watson “cognitive computing” …

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T-Mobile CEO John Legere had another good quarter of subscriber growth. Sarah Tew/CNET T-Mobile has shown it can win over customers at an impressive rate. Now it needs to prove it can consistently make money doing so. If the second quarter’s results are any indication, T-Mobile is off to a good start. The nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier posted a profit …

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Misfit CEO Sonny Vu on Vietnam’s modern

Click here for more Road Trip 2015 stories. HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Sonny Vu looks utterly at ease as he sips a Vietnamese iced coffee laden with condensed milk and opines about the state of technology in Vietnam. We’re sitting by the pool at his new home in Ho Chi Minh City in early July, the morning after …

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Windows 10 tested: How performance on the new operating system compares to Windows 8

Sarah Tew/CNET Windows 10 represents a major change in how PCs look and work. Most early reviews and impressions of the new operating system have been positive, emphasizing the integrated desktop and start menu, the new Edge browser, and the Cortana digital assistant. But historically, upgrading a PC to a new OS has been known to cause performance and compatibility …

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