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Microsoft on July 13 announced plans for a celebratory debut this month of Windows 10 operating software designed to spread the U.S. software titan's offerings across a broad range of devices.

Microsoft announced plans July 8 to cut 7,800 jobs along with a reorganization of its Windows Phone unit which has struggled in the mobile market.

The move represents the second major round of layoffs in a year for Microsoft, which cut some 18,000 jobs a year ago as part of its effort to integrate the Nokia handset division.

Greece?s Cyber Crime Unit is warning Internet users of the reappearance of a virus targeting users on social media network Facebook.

A 53-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman were arrested in Athens late on Monday on suspicion of illegally possessing the personal details of thousands of people, which they attempted to sell to businesses.

The arrests were made after an e-mail was sent to numerous companies offering them the 150,000 people?s e-mail addresses for an unknown fee.

Apple has topped Forbes? most valuable brands list for a fifth straight year with a brand value of $145.3 billion, after selling 74.8 million smartphones worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2014.

The magazine said the Apple brand?s $145.3 billion value was up 17 percent over 2014. 

"The Interview," the provocative comedy that triggered a  devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures, went straight to U.S. consumers on Dec. 24 in an unprecedented online debut after hacker threats prevented its wide release on Christmas day.
   

The Greek Manpower Organization (OAED) is launching a pilot program to test a scheme created in cooperation with Microsoft and aimed at training jobless people in information technology for free, with the eventual aim of expanding to all registered unemployed.

The Istanbul police’s intelligence department monitored or accessed the web and email traffic of everyone living in the Marmara region, including Istanbul, according to two documents that have surfaced within the scope of a large wiretapping probe on police.

Bulgaria's Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) fined Microsoft Bulgaria with BGN 187 000, after a complaint by BMG OOD said the commission on its website. 

BELGRADE - Microsoft Srbija presented the Met Mobile Challenge award to the Catch Code team from Prokuplje, developers of a mobile phone application for coding and decoding text messages, which is already available to Windows Phone users around the world via the Microsoft's website.