From InfoWorld: Microsoft quietly put an end to sales of Windows 7 licenses to computer makers this week, marking a major milestone for the seven-year-old OS.

According to Microsoft's rules, the Redmond, Wash. company stopped selling Windows 7 Professional or any version of Windows 8.1 to OEMs...

From CNET: Microsoft said Tuesday that it will issue a fix next week for a Windows vulnerability it says is being exploited by hackers linked to Russia's government.

The company said in a blog post that it would release the fix November 8 as part of its normal patch cycle, adding that a well-known...

From PC World: Cisco Systems is making a play for the fundamental process of putting IoT devices online, promising greater ease of use and security as enterprises prepare to deploy potentially millions of connected objects.

Thanks to a dominant position in Internet Protocol networks, Cisco can do...

From CNET: The upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 could have a whole lot of display, at least according to a recent report by Korean publication The Investor.

The report from The Investor, comes after the iMiD 2016 display exhibition that took place in Seoul last week. According to the report, Park Won...

From InfoWorld: Today, a robust, VR-capable smartphone could cost you more than $500. But a new GPU from ARM could make VR a default feature in low-cost handsets by 2018.

ARM's Mali-G51 GPU is targeted toward budget smartphones and has the horsepower to handle VR applications. It can bring VR to...

From CNET: The company is testing out using the "Reader" mode found on Apple iOS's Safari browser whenever you click on a link on the Twitter mobile app, according to The Guardian. Instead of going to the regular mobile web, you would see the streamlined Reader version, which strips out graphics and...

From PC World: Rumors and hopes for a category-defining Surface phone were not satisfied at Microsoft's press event last Wednesday. The company didn’t even mention Windows 10 Mobile. With the collective market share of Windows phones stagnant at about 1 percent, customers and partners have to wonder...

From CNET: Samsung, sore from the disastrous Galaxy Note 7 debacle, is betting big on chips.

The company plans to invest more than $1 billion by the end of June 2017 to increase the production of system chips in its Austin, Texas, facilities, according to Reuters.

While Samsung is best known for...

From InfoWorld: European Union privacy watchdogs have warned WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to stop sharing users' data with parent company Facebook until they investigated whether the transfers comply with EU data protection law. They also want Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to come clean about recent leaks and...

From CNET: Sony announced the sale of its battery business on Monday and at the same time reduced its profit estimate for 2016.

The Japanese tech titan had hoped sales of the PS4 and the release of PlayStation VR, its virtual reality headset, would result in a healthy financial year for the company...