From CNET: Toshiba and SanDisk are seeking damages from SK Hynix in separately filed lawsuits, both of which allege that the company profited from the theft of data surrounding NAND flash memory technology.

Toshiba and SanDisk have partnered for years to produce the flash memory chip technology...

From PC World: Nokia’s Refocus app—which lets users play with the focus after a picture has been taken—is now available for all Lumia smartphones with Windows Phone 8.

Nokia has been launching new camera features and apps on its top-end models first, and then later making them available to cheaper...

From DailyTech: Google is heating up the online storage competition by slashing some of its Google Drive prices.

According to Google's official blog, the company is cutting the price of its monthly 100GB plan from $4.99 to $1.99, and is majorly slashing the price of its 1TB plan from $49.99 to...

From X-bit Labs: It is not a secret that demand for personal computers is rather low these days. This can be explained by protracted economic downturn, the rise of media tablets and smartphones, prolonged PC lifecycles by both consumers and businesses and many other reasons. What we do know now is...

From InfoWorld: Bas Bosschert, a self-billed "consultant/sysadmin/entrepreneur," has demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit that shows how the locally stored message database used by WhatsApp can be read by any other Android application with local access to the file system.

Though the WhatsApp...

From PC World: Amazon is tacking $20 onto the price of its Amazon Prime service, bringing the yearly cost to $99.

This is the first price hike for Amazon Prime since it was introduced nine years ago. The service originally included just free two-day shipping on most orders, but has since expanded...

From DailyTech: Nikon has rolled out a new digital camera called the Nikon 1 V3. The camera is an interchangeable lens unit that claims to have the fastest shooting rate with autofocus tracking – 20 fps. The camera also offers 720p slow motion recording at 120 fps. Nikon touts that its new camera...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Storage Solutions has introduced its all-new high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) with PCI Express interface for enterprise-class computing. The new Z-Drive 4500 series delivers even higher performance in comparison to OCZ’s Z-Drive R4 Series, leverages 19nm MLC NAND flash...

From EETimes: Intel, Mellanox, and Vello Systems are among the latest companies announcing new standards efforts for optical networking at the OFC Conference this week. They aim to smooth the flow of a rising tide of data at various points through Internet datacenters and carrier networks.

Intel...

From PC World: Adobe released updates for Flash Player that fix two vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to bypass security controls in the software.

One of the vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2014-0504, can be exploited to read the contents of a computer’s clipboard, the short-term data...