Intel may have totally sunk Microsoft's latest plan to conquer smartphones

The Microsoft Continuum dock adapter for the Lumia 950.

 Microsoft's phone business is struggling: Sales of its flagship Lumia brands are down 72% over the same time last year.

But Microsoft has been urging calm, dropping lots of hints that the long-rumored Surface Phone, said to be due in 2017, will change everything. Microsoft has even said that it could put Apple and the iPhone on the defensive.It's a nice idea.

But Intel, one of Microsoft's oldest and best partners, is having its own difficulties breaking into mobile. As a result of those troubles, Intel might have made a decision that could sink the Surface Phone and its rumored best feature — the ability to run standard Windows desktop software— before it's even officially announced.

Major tech breakthrough iPhone users have been waiting for is finally here

Why is the iPhone 6s Plus so gigantic and unwieldy when Samsung's Galaxy S7 edge is wonderfully compact and manageable? Both smartphones have screens that measure 5.5 inches diagonally, so they should be reasonably comparable in size. But alas, the Galaxy S7 edge is a pleasure to use with one hand while the iPhone 6s Plus is far too huge for most users to comfortably manage.

Apple officially killed one of Steve Jobs' favorite projects

Before Steve Jobs rejoined Apple in the 1990s, one of the flagship projects at his company, NeXT, was WebObjects, a set of tools for making what were called at the time "internet applications." Today we just call them websites.

On an Apple listserv on Tuesday, Java developer Hugi Thordarson emailed a blast saying that Apple had confirmed to him that WebObjects was officially declared dead.