From InfoWorld: Nobody thinks of directory services like LDAP or Active Directory as fonts of innovation. But to Amazon, they are a starting point for building something new.

A new public offering from Amazon called Cloud Directory aims to take the ho-hum idea behind a directory service—a...

From CNET: Looks like you'll pay at least $500 more to own a 2017 LG OLED TV compared to the 2016 version.

In advance of any official pricing announcement from LG itself, retailer B&H has posted pre-order pages for the 55-inch ($2500) and 65-inch ($4000) sizes in LG's C7 series of OLED TVs. We...

From PC World: BitTorrent has been trying to shake its image as a pirated movie purveyor for years and use its peer-to-peer powers for good, and now you can enjoy its free, legal, and legitimate TV service right on your Android phone.

Called BitTorrent Live, the app isn’t for seeding and sharing...

From CNET: PayPal has confirmed it has been in talks with Amazon to potentially enable its users to purchase items and services from the shopping site using PayPal.

"We have been in conversations with Amazon," PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told Bloomberg in an interview. "We're closing in on 200 million...

From InfoWorld: Apple has filed two new lawsuits against Qualcomm, this time in China, that allege the mobile chip maker abused its market dominance and patents to charge excessively high licensing fees.

Apple is seeking 1 billion yuan ($145 million) in damages from Qualcomm, according to Beijing’s...

From PC World: Fresh off reports that Samsung's Galaxy S8 would be the first phone to launch with the highly anticipated Snapdragon 835, HTC wants everyone to know it won’t be left behind. Despite the upcoming release of a brand new flagship built on the older 821 architecture, HTC is vowing to...

From CNET: LG is looking to play it safe with its next flagship phone.

The company's upcoming G6 phone, which will be unveiled next month at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, will have a sealed battery like the iPhone and Galaxy S phones, according to a person familiar with the...

From PC World: When it comes to Ultra HD Blu-ray players, home theater fans have all kinds of choices including Oppo, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, the Xbox One S, with more to come from companies like LG. Home theater PC owners, on the other hand, have exactly zero choices for a Blu-ray drive—though it...

From InfoWorld: Cisco has agreed to acquire AppDynamics for $3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards, scooping up the application performance management company just days before its expected initial public offering. The deal, which Cisco announced late Tuesday, is expected to close by the end...

From CNET: You'll no longer have to fumble around to find your missing AirPods.

Apple's latest iOS 10 beta update, 10.3, lets you locate your new Apple wireless headphones using the "Find My iPhone" app, undoubtedly making a few of you feel very relieved. The app can play a sound on one or both...