From EETimes: Qualcomm kicked off the next round of competition in smartphones with its announcement of high-end and midrange LTE chips last week. Broadcom, Mediatek, and others are expected to join the 4G handset battle in 2014.

Qualcomm's 28 nm Snapdragon 410, announced Dec. 9, will pack a...

From PC World: Attackers exploited a vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion to install data-stealing malware that works as a module for Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) Web server software.

Researchers from security firm Trustwave recently reported they've identified IIS (Internet...

From DailyTech: Gigabyte has announced that its new Z87X-UD7 TH motherboard has received Thunderbolt 2 certification. Thunderbolt 2 was announced earlier this year, and the onboard Falcon Ridge controller supports 20 Gb/s aggregated data transfer rate across two channels per port

Thunderbolt ports...

From X-bit Labs: ARM Holdings has acquired Geomerics, a leader in lighting technology for the gaming and entertainment industries. The acquisition expands ARM's position at the forefront of the visual computing and graphics industries. Additionally, the agreement enables Geomerics to build on their...

From InfoWorld: We've seen the same problem reported over and over for Windows XP users trying to update their computers: Windows Update redlines (more accurately, the XP Windows Update agent WUAUCLT.EXE running in a SVCHOST wrapper redlines), taking 100 percent of the CPU for five, 10, 15 minutes -...

From PC World: Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and software-defined networking platforms with killer applications for them.

So says Cisco, which recently offered its own predictions on technology trends for 2014. They...

From DailyTech: Thanks to the removal of a certain feature, Android users may have to consider which is more important to them: privacy or security.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Google removed the App Ops feature from Android 4.4.2, the latest version of the mobile...

From X-bit Labs: While the next-generation high-end desktop (HEDT) family of chips is several quarters away, the first pictures of the Intel Core i7 Extreme “Haswell-E” central processing unit has already been published. This confirms that the new products have already reached Intel’s partners who...

From EETimes: Kudos to Qualcomm for rallying into an open-source alliance of 23 backers for its Alljoyn software under the new name of AllSeen. But there's still a lot unseen and yet to be seen about this move.

Billed as unifying glue for Internet of Things products, AllSeen is one of the umpteen...

From PC World: Dropbox is getting help from Dell to convince enterprises to pick its hosted storage and file-sharing platform, and also to make it more secure.

Take advantage of enterprises’ growing interest in and acceptance for personal cloud-based storage services, vendors like Dropbox have been...