From PC World: Lenovo is issuing a recall for more than 500,000 computer AC power cords in the U.S. after receiving reports of the cord overheating, sparking, melting, and burning. All problematic cords were reported by users outside the U.S. The current recall also affects 44,000 devices sold in...

From CNET: Peer-to-peer file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has been knocked offline worldwide in the wake of a police raid on the company's Stockholm, Sweden premises, and the subsequent seizure of servers and other equipment.

"There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is...

From DailyTech: The first of two Apple, Inc. (AAPL) employees caught stealing and selling company secrets to suppliers was sentenced this week. Caught in a federal sting by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), Paul Shin Devine -- a manager at Apple -- had been charged with committing fraud, breach...

From InfoWorld: Google has made a series of announcements aimed at helping Microsoft customers run Windows workloads on Google's cloud.

Microsoft License Mobility is now available for Google Cloud Platform, Google said Monday in a blog post. This allows customers using SQL Server, SharePoint and...

From PC World: In 2013, Bop.fm quietly launched a Web service that promised “free legit music you can share with anyone.” Now it’s taking that model to the mobile space.

On Tuesday, the company announced the launch of its first iOS app, allowing fans on either the iPhone or the iPad to listen to...

From CNET: Amazon is testing bike messengers deliveries in New York City, which means the company could deliver products to customers within an hour, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The Journal said it discovered messengers performing time trials out of an Amazon building near the Empire...

From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is offering you an even more massive discount on top of its existing annual service subscription discounts if you're willing to pay for a bundle of several of its top services.

Microsoft is offering...

- Office 365 Home ($99.00 USD/year)
- OneDrive (1 TB)...

From PC World: Chatting on Kakao Talk will become more secure with a new hidden chat feature that has end-to-end encryption for all messages.

Secret Chat is a chat room that requires messages to be read with a decryption key stored in a user’s mobile device, Daum Kakao, the South Korea-based...

From CNET: Sony has been hit by another hack -- the PlayStation Network and store has been targeted and taken offline.

Although the online store for games, films and TV shows seems to be back up and running once again, visitors to the site were brought to a halt on Sunday night with a message...

From DailyTech: Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) has positioned itself as the undisputed king of the applications processor (AP) market in recent years. Its chips power most of the best and brightest flagship smartphones on Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android OS and Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows smartphone...