TechByter Worldwide 2015.05.10: Saving Private Android's Battery; Microsoft Tries to Make Nice with System Administrators; Short Circuits; and Spare Parts.

Published: May 10, 2015, 4 a.m.

If your Android smart phone's battery life is far too short after you upgraded the phone to Lollipop, I have some suggestions; Microsoft's Ignite Conference in Chicago this week shows how committed the company is to winning over IT managers; In Short Circuits: The speech recognition market is growing fast, Microsoft has filed suit against a fraudster, and you'll be shocked by how much Comcast and Time Warner spent on their failed merger. In Spare Parts, only on the website: Android users continue to upgrade to Lollipop; Opera's new Mini browser is a hit; and Microsoft pushes Android and IOS developers to port their applications to Windows 10.