From InfoWorld: Sometimes, even the best coders get stuck and need a little advice. Enter Bing Developer Assistant, designed to help Visual Studio developers take advantage of Microsoft's search engine to find tips on how to untangle thorny programming problems.

For example, when developers get a...

From PC World: Google is on a tear adding new features to Google Drive. The company recently rolled out an improvement to how Gmail handles Drive attachments, as well as some nice feature updates to Drive for Android and iOS.

Two years after Google added the ability to share Drive links via Gmail...

From CNET: T-Mobile is closing the coverage gap with the big boys.

The company said on Tuesday that its 4G LTE network covers 260 million people, and it plans to cover 300 million people by the end of the year. In comparison, AT&T and Verizon Wireless, the nation's two largest carriers, both reach...

From DailyTech: Bloomberg News is reporting that Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has halted sales in Russia, once one of its most promising growth markets. The move is the latest indication that Russia's economy is in dire trouble.

Apple has been operating in Russia since 2007, according a 2012 report from...

From InfoWorld: In a breach notification letter sent to employees this week, Sony Pictures outlines the full scope of data that was compromised by attackers shortly before the Thanksgiving holiday.

The notice is similar to an email sent earlier this month, but with more detail, and encourages staff...

From PC World: When we reviewed Amazon’s first foray into the set-top box market way back in April, we noted that its Fire TV would benefit from more apps, HBO Go chief among them. Today, Amazon announced that the premium cable-channel’s service is finally available on that platform, and it's...

From CNET: Lok'tar ogar! The long wait for Hearthstone on Android has finally come to an end, as Blizzard's addictive card-duelling game lands on Google's operating system.

Hearthstone, which is a virtual trading card game based on characters and lore from Blizzard's Warcraft franchise, sees...

From DailyTech: BlackBerry, Ltd. (TSE:BB) has trimmed its losses under new CEO John Chen, but it remains a shell of its former glory moving only roughly 2.4 million smartphones [PDF] in the third calendar quart of the year (BlackBerry's fiscal Q2 2015). But in a rather unexpected development, it...

From InfoWorld: Google's Go language, which is centered on developer productivity and concurrent programming, can now be officially used for Android application development.

The capability is new in version 1.4, released this week. "The most notable new feature in this release is official support...

From PC World: A successful iPhone 6 launch in the U.S. helped Apple increase its share of the smartphone market in the third quarter, but nemesis Samsung Electronics struggled, with upstart Chinese manufacturers nipping at its heels and growing ever stronger.

Thanks to record sales in emerging...