From InfoWorld: Google Compute Engine, the company’s IaaS cloud computing offering, got a face-lift today with the announcement that new autoscaling features and 32-core VMs would be available to the general public.

Autoscaler, according to an official blog post, is the same system that Google...

From PC World: Mozilla hopes to have its version of Firefox for iOS devices out by year’s end as part of its push to grow its share of mobile traffic.

Mozilla already offers Firefox on Android, but the OS makes up just a sliver of total Web traffic on mobile, easily surpassed by Google’s Chrome...

From CNET: BlackBerry is making a new acquisition that could help it win over more business customers.

On Friday, BlackBerry announced that it has agreed to purchase Good Technology for $425 million in cash. Based in California, Good Technology offers secure email, applications and communications...

From ComputerWorld: A court in California has approved a $415 million settlement between tech workers and Intel, Google, Apple and Adobe Systems, who were accused of conspiring to prevent the poaching of each other's employees.

The final approval has, however, reduced significantly the sums to be...

From InfoWorld: Intel launched a new family of mainstream processors on Wednesday -- an important step for the company which has had trouble keeping up in a marketplace that is increasing defined by mobile devices.

The chips were previously known by their "Skylake" code-name but with their launch...

From PC World: Qualcomm's introducing its Snapdragon 820 processor using the latest and most annoying trend in tech: dribble out one small detail at a time over the span of weeks. We've already heard about the GPU/ISP and the DSP, and now Qualcomm is talking about the Kyro CPU. Unfortunately, the...

From CNET: Samsung talked up its first UHD Blu-ray player, the UBD-K8500, during an event Thursday at a press conference at the IFA electronics show here. The player is capable of providing four times the resolution and 64 times higher color expression compared to standard Blu-ray and can upscale...

From InfoWorld: There has been a lot of confusion surrounding the Aug. 11 security patch MS15-04/KB 3076895, which broke several products from Symantec, IBM -- even Microsoft itself. It took more than two weeks for Microsoft to recognize that the Patch Tuesday offering had conflicts with the...

From PC World: A wireless charging system that packs enough power to replenish a laptop battery should hit the market in 2016, helping realize the long-held dream of a cable-free desk, Intel said on Wednesday.

The chip-maker is developing a system that can handle up to 20 watts of power—about four...

From CNET: Xiaomi has managed to take a big bite out of Apple's market share in China thanks to its Mi line of smartphones. Now, four years after its inception, the Chinese smartphone powerhouse looks to bring the fight to Apple in the laptop market.

According to a Bloomberg report out of South...