From PC World: Google has stopped a widespread malicious advertising attack that bounced Web surfers to dodgy sites hawking weight loss and skin care products.

The malicious ads were delivered to website owners signed up with Google’s AdSense program, wrote Denis Sinegubko, a senior malware...

From CNET: Samsung executives met with BlackBerry last week with an acquisition offer that was as high as $7.5 billion, according to Reuters, which cited an unnamed source. The Korean tech titan reportedly proposed an initial range of $13.35 to $15.49 a share, representing a 37.4 percent to 59.5...

From DailyTech: Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android 5.0 "Lollipop" -- like past builds of Android -- has been a little bit of a late bloomer, with a slow adoption cycle. But things are finally starting to heat up.

Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) in the last couple weeks has...

From InfoWorld: IBM took the wraps off a new mainframe computer on Tuesday, promising it will help customers to detect more fraud in real time and plow through billions of transactions generated each day by smartphones and tablets.

The z13 is IBM's first new mainframe in almost three years, and it...

From PC World: Adobe Systems fixed nine vulnerabilities in Flash Player that allow attackers to record users’ keystrokes or take complete control of their computers.

These are Flash Player updates you’ll want to install, unlike the malicious one served from the North Korean news agency site.

The...

From CNET: Samsung launched a long-awaited smartphone in India on Wednesday that is powered by Tizen, the electronics giant's own operating system.

Sporting a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 3.1-megapixel rear-facing camera, and 1,500mAh battery, the Samsung Z1 resembles many other entry-level...

From DailyTech: Anonymity is one layer of protection on the internet. In recent years agressive marketers, spammers, and phishers have turned to a trick known as "web bugs" -- remotely hosted images embedded in webpages or emails -- to check the exact time a user opens an email and to check the IP...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft spent the last half of 2014 getting everyone excited about Skype Translator, a new technology that translates real-time conversations between two people speaking different languages over Skype. The new feature went into an invite-only preview in December.

Not to be left...

From PC World: AMD chip chief John Byrne has left the company, accompanying AMD’s chief strategy officer and its chief marketing officer out the door, according to the company.

Byrne, as well as chief marketing officer Collette LaForce and chief strategy officer Raj Naik, have left to pursue other...

From CNET: Unlucky for some: it's 13 January 2015, and that means the end of free support for Windows 7.

Happily that doesn't mean your computer is going to automatically break or stop working, but it does mean Microsoft will no longer offer free help and support if you have problems with your...