From PC World: We knew something was amiss. We’ve been testing the LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition for the last week, and its performance has been unreliable. Now, citing a “hardware issue,” LG is halting sales of the watch, which launched via AT&T last week, and was primed to go sale via Verizon...

From CNET: Sprint will match its rivals' current rate plans and offer a 50 percent discount in a new promotion unveiled Wednesday.

The program, similar to one Sprint launched a year ago and beginning on Friday, applies to customers switching from Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile. The 50 percent discount...

From PC World: Intel will ship its first Xeon server chip with a programmable FPGA from Altera in the first quarter next year, some 18 months after announcing work on the product.

FPGAs, or field programmable gate arrays, are specialty chips used to accelerate specific workloads. With Moore's Law...

From ComputerWorld: Windows phone shipments took a nose-dive in the third quarter, plummeting 35% from the same period in 2014, researcher Gartner said today.

By comparison, total global smartphone shipments climbed 15% in the third quarter.

Of the 353 million smartphones shipped in the September...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft says it is pulling support for a pared-down, IoT version of Windows 10 from the latest version of Intel's Galileo board computer because it doesn't have the hardware capabilities to support the OS.

Intel's Galileo is an uncased board being used by makers to build robots...

From CNET: Just when you thought there couldn't be more tech companies tackling the notion of mobile payments, in walks LG.

The South Korean electronics conglomerate said Thursday it plans to launch LG Pay, a service that will presumably turn its smartphones into digital wallets.

LG is the latest...

From ComputerWorld: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest partner to work with Intel on the Internet of Things, announcing it will develop products for computing at the edges of networks.

The Intel IoT Platform is the chip company's set of technologies for building and running networks of...

From InfoWorld: Citrix Systems has decided to spin off its GoTo collaboration products business into a new company, to focus on its core business in the secure delivery of apps and data.

The mobile workspaces company expects to completely separate the GoTo business, consisting of products like...

From PC World: The Fury is with you, Star Wars fans: AMD is teaming up with its old pal Electronic Arts to offer gamers looking for a new graphics card a nice freebie. Anyone who buys a select AMD Radeon R9 Fury graphics card before the end of January 2016 will get a free copy of Star Wars...

From CNET: Google+ hasn't lived up to its full potential as a social network developed and promoted by Google, one of the world's largest and most innovative organisations. However, the US-based tech giant isn't giving up on the platform.

On Tuesday, it began the rollout of a completely redesigned...