From PC World: Apple on Monday issued its first security-related update for OS X 10.5, or Leopard, in nearly a year, to disable long-outdated versions of Adobe's Flash Player.

Security Update 2012-003 does not patch any known vulnerabilities, but is instead a Leopard-specific...

From CNET News.com: Apple may already be prepping for the production of its next-generation iPhone.

The company is significantly cutting back on the production of the current iPhones, according to supplier checks by Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu. The number of iPhones produced may...

From DailyTech: Best Buy is seeing sales slump as more and more people go online to purchase items at lower prices. Many consumers are now using retail stores such as Best Buy as places to go in to see and touch products that they then order online. Best Buy has also recently been...

From DailyTech: To say South Korea's LG Electronics, Inc. (KS:066570) has struggled in the smartphone era would be to put it lightly. LG has plummeted in the sales rankings, even as local rival Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) has banked massive profits. But a...

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. and Intellectual Ventures (IV) on Monday announced that they have jointly acquired a set of patents developed and owned by IPWireless. The portfolio comprises approximately 500 patents granted and pending in the wireless communications area, including...

From CNET News.com: The first wave of Intel-based Windows 8 tablets are expected to land in retail stores in November, a source familiar with device makers' plans told CNET.

"The schedule is tight," said the source. "Looking at what Windows is trying to achieve not only with a new...

From DailyTech: Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson has stepped down from his position after giving false information regarding his credentials earlier this year.

Thompson, who was previously the president of eBay's online payment system PayPal, took the position of Yahoo...

From DailyTech: It's become pretty well-understood that Sony is a sinking ship that requires quite a few fixes before it can ever be saved, but if its latest annual loss is any indication of what's to come, Sony isn't coming up for air anytime soon.

Sony recently reported a record...

From X-bit Labs: Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel Corp. said that the company had begun to work on 7nm a 5am process technologies. The company's plans now are to equip its Oregon, Arizona and Irelands fabs to make chips using 14nm fabrication processes.

"Our research and...

From X-bit Labs: Although the yields of semiconductors made using 28nm fabrication process at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company seem to be improving, their undersupplies is just becoming more evident. For Nvidia Corp., it just hurts.

Nvidia on Friday said that the problems...