From CNET: When discussing new smartphones, people may highlight the speed of the processor or the sharpness of the display. But the modem chip -- the thing that actually lets a smartphone make phone calls -- many times gets ignored.

Qualcomm, the world's largest smartphone-chip maker, is hoping it...

From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) 12-inch Surface Pro 3 hybrid laptop-cum-tablet is getting cheaper -- $100 cheaper, to be precise.

The third-gen Surface Pro comes in five SKUs, which had previously ranged in price from from $799 USD to $1,949. These tablets come with various flavors of...

From InfoWorld: For most of us, Flash is still a big part of our online lives, even though most smartphones and tablets don't support it and a lot of online video has moved away from it. It's still common enough that if you don't have it installed on your computer, you'll encounter at least a few...

From PC World: Microsoft has adopted a new standard for cloud privacy that commits the company to protect the privacy of customers’ data, not to use it for advertisement purposes, and to inform the customer of legal requests for personal data.

The company said Monday it was adopting the ISO/IEC...

From CNET: 2014 was a prolific year for Samsung and LG, as the Korean LCD TV makers racked up 22.8 percent and 14.9 percent of the world market share of shipments respectively, according to a report from research firm Witsview.

Both companies increased the number of units from the previous year...

From DailyTech: While PC sales in 2014 showed signs of stabilizing in 2014 after a rough couple years, more trouble could be in store for this year. Namely, Intel Corp. (INTC) -- whom the majority of OEMs rely on for the bulk of their desktop and laptop PC processor shipments -- has reportedly...

From InfoWorld: In a situation that may foreshadow Windows 10 patching problems, the Black Tuesday patch KB 2920732 has brought PowerPoint 2013 on Windows RT systems to its knees. Worse, because of the way Windows RT works, there's no way to back out the update. Your only solution, until Microsoft...

From PC World: Several wireless routers made by Netgear contain a vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive information from the devices, including their administrator passwords and wireless network keys.

The vulnerability can be exploited over local area networks, as...

From CNET: Samsung will remove many of its own programs in the upcoming version of its TouchWiz user interface, a new report claims.

The new version of Samsung's TouchWiz will be stripped down to not include any Samsung-built applications, Sammobile is reporting, citing people who claim to have...

From DailyTech: NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) is stirring up controversy after it broke its silence on overclocking of its mobile GPUs, an increasingly popular practice in recent years, banning the practice the practice with driver updates.

The recent updates related to Maxwell mobile chips for laptop and...