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...

From DailyTech: While Nexus smartphone owners are sitting around waiting for an official Android 5.0 Lollipop update from Google, it appears that owners of Motorola’s second generation Moto G smartphone are now receiving their OTA update. The news comes courtesy of Ars Technica, which states that...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella boldly goes where no Ballmer has gone before. No longer hampered by the glacial Windows dev cycle, Nadella's trying hard to change the "Windows everywhere" meme into "Microsoft everywhere," by almost literally giving away the store.

Step 1. Two weeks ago...

From PC World: Apple is at last offering a simple way for former iPhone users to receive text messages sent into limbo by the company’s iMessage service.

The problem affects former iPhone users who transferred their SIM card or phone number to a non-Apple phone. If they had set up their iPhone to...

From CNET: Raspberry Pi, the programable microcomputer, has become even more micro. A newly unveiled board adds a few tempting hardware tweaks, as well as reducing the overall size of the Pi.

Raspberry Pi represents an effort to strip a computer down to its most basic elements, providing only a...

From DailyTech: Do you have an LG G3? Do you live in Poland? Well, you’ll start receiving the Android 5.0 Lollipop over-the-air (OTA) update this week.

LG announced the news in an official post on its website and claims to be the “first global smartphone manufacturer to offer the Lollipop upgrade...