From PC World: SAP and Oracle have settled a long-standing copyright-infringement lawsuit, with the German company agreeing to pay about US$359 million in damages and interest to Oracle instead of the $1.3 billion awarded in 2010.

Oracle was sued by SAP in 2007 on allegations that its now-defunct...

From CNET: At an enterprise event in San Francisco on Thursday, Samsung and BlackBerry announced a partnership that couples Samsung's Knox platform with BlackBerry's enterprise know-how. It's all built on BlackBerry's upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Services 12 platform, and aims to bolster Android...

From DailyTech: When Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows 10 comes to smartphones next spring, it's not going to be a repeat of the disastrous mire of controversy that surrounded Windows 8.

Windows 8, as some might recall, brought an impressive collection of new features. But it also left most users...

From InfoWorld: Windows 10 spokesperson Gabe Aul posted new details about the latest version of Windows 10. If you're running Windows 10 Technical Preview build 9860, you can go to PC Settings, Update and recovery, Preview builds, and click or tap on Download Now to get build 9879.

Or if you've...

From PC World: Nvidia’s online PC game-streaming service will launch next week after a year-long beta testing period, but it will only be available to owners of the company’s Shield tablet and handheld gaming console.

The Nvidia GRID cloud gaming service will first be available in the U.S. as a...

From CNET: LG reported a 16.3 percent smartphone market share in North America for the third quarter of 2014, more than twice the 7.4 percent it had a year ago, according to the latest analysis from the US-based Strategy Analytics. The boost was largely thanks to the company's latest flagship, the...

From DailyTech: Microsoft has announced that it will be open sourcing most of its software development libraries and will be releasing .NET libraries and tools for Linux and OS X. This bold move brings one of the world's most used development environments to new homes, although success is far from...

From InfoWorld: Seagate Technology is boosting investments in laser-assisted hard disk drive technology that it projects will allow it to increase capacity five-fold.

The laser technology, known as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), is able to write smaller, more-stable bits onto the magnetic...

From PC World: Adobe Systems released critical security updates Tuesday for Flash Player to address 18 vulnerabilities, many of which can be remotely exploited to compromise underlying systems.

Fifteen of the patched vulnerabilities can result in arbitrary code execution, one can be exploited to...

From CNET: The web company announced Tuesday it had paid $640 million in cash for the San Francisco startup, which helps customers buy and sell video ads on websites, mobile devices and connected TVs. In a blog post confirming the acquisition Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer predicted that...