From DailyTech: While some worried that it might pull out of the mobile market amid struggles, Japanese OEM Sony Corp. (TYO:6758) has instead delivered a major show of confidence announcing plans to open a brand new third mobile phone factory.

The plan is intriguing for a number of reasons.

First...

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft has started a three-month bug bounty program for two tools that are part of Visual Studio 2015.

The program applies to the beta versions of Core CLR, which is the execution engine for .NET Core, and ASP.NET, Microsoft's framework for building websites and web...

From InfoWorld: Apple today released OS X 10.11.1, the first update for its El Capitan operating system, and implied that the refresh includes a fix for the crash problems that users of Microsoft's Office 2016 for Mac have reported for months.

Among the notations listed in Apple's accompanying...

From PC World: Xiaomi has been knocked from the top of China's smartphone market by Huawei, according to new research, a setback for a company that was often feted as “the Apple of China.”

Research company Canalys called it a "remarkable feat" by Huawei, best known outside China for its network...

From CNET: Last Thursday Alcatel OneTouch released the camera-centric Flash 2 phone in India, but it looks like that's not all the company has in store for the region.

The handset maker, owned by Hong Kong's TCL Communications, is strongly considering manufacturing its devices in India, according...

From ComputerWorld: Western Digital has agreed to buy SanDisk for around $19 billion in cash and stock.

The deal, approved by the boards of both companies, will create a storage giant with expertise in hard disks and flash memory, assuring the future of WD as its traditional business of spinning...

From InfoWorld: Dell got a jump-start in the world of analytics software when it acquired StatSoft early last year, and on Tuesday it forged further ahead into the space with a new Statistica release and a variety of industry-specific services.

Announced at the company's Dell World conference...

From PC World: The hardware-based encryption built into popular Western Digital external hard disk drives has flaws that could allow attackers to recover data without knowing the user password.

A team of three security researchers investigated how the self-encryption feature was implemented in...

From CNET: The Axon Pro, ZTE's first flagship device, is now available in three variations. Alongside the original Axon Pro, there's an identical version with twice as much internal storage and an entry-level model.

Pricing for all three models will be updated to reflect the shift to the lineup...

From ComputerWorld: If there's one Microsoft policy that has drawn the ire of IT managers over the course of its Windows 10 rollout, it's the company's decision to require that all users install cumulative updates without control over which packages a system receives.

It's such a point of...