From PC World: A vulnerability in an Android component shipped with phones that use Qualcomm chips puts users' text messages and call history at risk of theft.

The flaw was found by security researchers from FireEye and was patched by Qualcomm in March. However, because the vulnerability was...

From CNET: Apple Music is getting cheaper for young people. In a bid to compete with rivals Spotify and Google Music, Apple is offering half-price subscriptions to its streaming service for students.

Students in the US, the UK, Australia, Germany Denmark and New Zealand will be able to make use of...

From InfoWorld: AMD is jumping back into the SSD (solid-state drive) market with Radeon drives for laptops and desktops.

The SSD offerings are four Radeon R3 drives with storage capacities of 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB. AMD launched Radeon R7 drives in 2014.

The new drives are affordable, with...

From PC World: Apple has released a new version of its Xcode development tool in order to patch two critical vulnerabilities in the Git source code management client.

The Git vulnerabilities, CVE‑2016‑2324 and CVE‑2016‑2315, have been known since mid-March and can be exploited when cloning a...

From CNET: Valve has updated its Steam platform so that user reviews will "better describe the current customer experience in games." In a post on the Steam website, Valve admitted that "it isn't always easy to tell what the current experience is like in a game months after release" based on user...

From :ComputerWorld Microsoft dove deeper into Internet of Things technology on Tuesday with the acquisition of Solair, an Italian company that operates a cloud-based IoT platform.

According to a Microsoft blog post, Solair's technology will be used to upgrade the company's Azure IoT Suite, a...

From InfoWorld: Last week I wrote about an odd security update, KB 3146706, that appeared to be bricking pirated copies of Windows 7 and locking horns with Microsoft's own EMET 5.5 malware blocker. Details are hazy, but apparently Microsoft released MS 16-044/KB 3146706 on April 12 as a "checked"...

From PC World: A big hole in HTC’s product portfolio is an Android Wear smartwatch. Rumors have floated around about one for a while, but we now have a few indications this may getting closer to reality.

According to the typically spot-on Evan Blass, the company’s first watch will launch in June...

From CNET: The Seattle e-retailer, which grew by selling baby wipes and smartphone cases to consumers, is now expanding its influence selling industrial and commercial supplies to companies, too. After quietly building out Amazon Business, its marketplace catering specifically to enterprises large...

From InfoWorld: Dell's planned $67 billion acquisition of EMC will create a broad collection of businesses called Dell Technologies.

Under that umbrella, the pure Dell name will live on in the company's client business, including its PCs, while its enterprise infrastructure division will be called...