From InfoWorld: For Intel, the temporary inability to keep pace with Moore's Law -- the foundation of its business -- was a bit of an embarrassment, but the company is trying hard to catch up.

Moore's Law is an observation that has led to faster, cheaper and smaller computers, and a concept that...

From ComputerWorld: A lawsuit against Microsoft that charged it with entering into restrictive hiring agreements with other companies has been dismissed by a court in California, with the judge declaring that the employees had waited too long to file the suit.

The lawsuit followed up on a class...

From InfoWorld: The plot thickens: After Dell confirmed that one of its support tools installed a dangerous self-signed root certificate and private key on computers, users discovered a similar certificate deployed by a different Dell tool.

The second certificate is called DSDTestProvider and is...

From PC World: People who updated to the latest Windows 10 update may want to double-check their settings. Microsoft revealed Tuesday that it took the previous update (which was released on November 12) down from the Internet the day before because of a problem that reset some users' privacy...

From CNET: Feeling festive and philanthropic this holiday shopping season? Use your Android phone to buy gifts and everything else through the end of the year and Google will donate money in your honor.

One dollar from every transaction paid for through Android Pay will go to special needs...

From InfoWorld: At least some Dell laptops are shipping with a trusted root certificate authority pre-installed, something that those who discovered the CA are comparing to the Superfish adware installed on Lenovo machines that left them open to man-in the-middle attacks.

Called eDellRoot, the...

From PC World: Microsoft has blamed a drop in its workforce's gender diversity on the thousands of layoffs it made to restructure its phone hardware business.

This year, women made up 26.8 percent of Microsoft's total workforce, down from 29 percent in 2014, the company reported Monday. Microsoft...

From CNET: Apple Pay may make its debut early next year in China, the biggest smartphone market in the world.

Apple's electronic-payments service is expected to launch in China in February, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sources told the newspaper that the Cupertino, California, tech giant...

From ComputerWorld: Toshiba America Electronic Components (TEAC) today announced what it says is the industry's first single-chip wireless power receiver (RX) that can operate at 15 watts and is compliant with Qi v1.2, the wireless charging standard.

Compared to TEAC's previous wireless power chips...

From PC World: Half of all enterprises will have at least started their roll-outs of Windows 10 by January 2017, according to a Gartner report released Monday, suggesting the OS is on track for rapid adoption.

The prediction is based on significant interest that Gartner analyst Steve Kleynhans has...