From PC World: Qualcomm has settled charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it hired relatives of Chinese officials who could influence the selection of its mobile technology products in a competitive market.

The SEC investigation also found that Qualcomm allegedly provided...

From CNET: FarmVille maker Zynga is harvesting a new crop of company leadership, a familiar occurrence at the game maker in recent years.

Zynga said Tuesday that Mark Pincus would step down as the CEO of the company after less than a year back at the helm of the online games maker he founded. Frank...

From ComputerWorld: Following explosive growth in January, Windows 10's gains in users and usage decelerated last month, data from three sources showed today.

The growth falloff varied by source, with one pegging it as the slowest rate since October, the second the most sluggish since November...

From InfoWorld: Cisco this week announced its intention to acquire CliQr Technologies, a privately held developer of "application-defined" cloud orchestration software for $260 million.

CliQr's software allows cloud operators to deploy and manage applications across bare metal, virtualized, and...

From PC World: AMD is shattering a speed record with the A10-7890K processor chip, its fastest yet with integrated graphics.

The chip sits at the top of all AMD A-series PC processors and is now shipping for $165.

Users will be able to build gaming desktops for under $500 with the chip, which can...

From ComputerWorld: Google has expanded the digital loss protection (DLP) features in Gmail for Work, to help ensure that employees don't share confidential information outside the company they work for.

The service can now use optical character recognition on attachments, so administrators can...

From InfoWorld: Verizon is known for its huge annual Data Breach Investigations Report, but this morning it released a less data-heavy digest organized by case study.

The digest tells the stories of 18 common scenarios that many attacks fall into, and is intended to be used at a higher level than...

From CNET: Bid your final farewell to the Sony PlayStation TV. After two short years on store shelves, Sony has confirmed to CNET that it will no longer be shipping the microconsole to the United States and Europe.

"PS TV shipments were terminated at the end of 2015 in SCEA [Sony Computer...

From PC World: Raspberry Pi has an in-store treat on its fourth anniversary.

It is now shipping the Raspberry Pi 3 computer, which at the same $35 price as its Pi 2 predecessor packs a more powerful 64-bit CPU, and for the first time, has built-in wireless capabilities.

The credit-card sized Pi...

From InfoWorld: A team of security researchers has found serious vulnerabilities in over a dozen wireless routers and access points from Netgear and D-Link with the help of an open-source framework that can be used to perform dynamic security analysis on embedded firmware.

Called Firmadyne, the...