From ComputerWorld: Xiaomi said Friday it shipped over 70 million smartphones in 2015, short of an ambitious target it had announced last year, amid growing competition and high dependence on the Chinese market.

The Chinese company had forecast last year that it would sell at least 80 million...

From InfoWorld: Intel welcomed employees from its massive Altera acquisition this week, and the first products from the deal will come out this quarter.

The chipmaker poured out $16.7 billion to buy Altera, which makes FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), or chips that can be reprogrammed for...

From CNET: When's the last time you used Foursquare?

Can't remember? That's part of the problem for the company behind the pioneering social app.

Also called Foursquare, the firm announced a major shakeup Thursday. Co-founder Dennis Crowley is stepping down as CEO to become its executive chairman...

From ComputerWorld: Samsung Electronics will be making Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 820 mobile processors, refueling speculation that the chips could find their way into the South Korean giant's premium smartphones, thus winning back lost business.

The chip maker said Thursday it had begun mass...

From InfoWorld: If you thought the "Get Windows 10" nagware/scumware/malware battle was growing ugly, you're about to see it erupt. Admins are next up to be under the gun.

Yesterday, Microsoft GM Matt Barlow posted a note on the Technet Windows for IT Pros blog that announced the beginning of...

From PC World: Microsoft-owned Skype promised that real-time translation tools were coming, and now they're here. Skype Translator is now live for all Windows desktop users. If you’ve ever wanted your German cousin speak to you in his native language while you speak to him in English, now you can...

From CNET: Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings just joined a growing list of tech leaders offering up their vast fortunes for charity. He took to Facebook on Tuesday to announce a new $100 million philanthropy called the Hastings Fund, which will focus on kids' education.

The new endeavor...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft is giving developers and students a free crack at its new server software for the R programming language.

In a post to the company's Machine Learning blog, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joseph Sirosh announced the new Microsoft R Server for Developers, which...

From InfoWorld: Windows 8, Microsoft's 2012 flop, will be retired from all support today, putting the 48 million users who still run the three-year-old operating system in a spot: Upgrade or risk getting hacked.

After today, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates for Windows 8 -- or for...

From PC World: In a declining PC market, high-priced gaming desktops and laptops are thriving.

PC shipments totaled 71.9 million units during the fourth quarter last year, declining by 10.6 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a study released by IDC on Tuesday.

But high...