From InfoWorld: With browser plug-ins going the way of the dinosaur, Oracle plans to deprecate its Java browser plug-in in Java Development Kit 9, which is due in March 2017. The technology will then be completely removed from Oracle JDK and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in a future release of...

From CNET: While 2015 was a milestone year for Huawei, who with the help of Google infiltrated the US with the Nexus 6P, it was also a big year for another Chinese smartphone maker.

Oppo on Thursday announced it sold 50 million phones in 2015, which represents a 67 percent year-on-year growth for...

From PC World: Mobile use is growing so fast that cells added for a big event like the Super Bowl are now worth keeping just for daily life.

Verizon Wireless is installing nearly 100 cells to make sure its network can handle the crush of a million or more fans around this year’s big game in the San...

From ComputerWorld: Weak demand for mobile phones and display panels pushed down Samsung's profits last quarter, and the company doesn't expect much improvement this year.

Revenue for the fourth quarter was 53.3 trillion won (US$45.5 billion), up just 1 percent from a year earlier, Samsung...

From ComputerWorld: Sony plans to shift its global headquarters for PlayStation from Tokyo to California this year, it said Tuesday.

Consumers outside Japan are becoming more important for Sony's PlayStation, network-based gaming and general entertainment businesses.

The new company, called Sony...

From InfoWorld: VMware is cutting about 800 jobs as it transitions from its traditional products to newer, emerging technologies.

The company expects 2016 will be a key transition year as "we expect the effect of our new products to outweigh the decline in our compute products," CEO Pat Gelsinger...

From PC World: Oracle has raised questions whether a version of Google's Android operating system running OpenJDK code will at all get an open-source license.

Google told a court in California that it released on Dec. 24 new versions of its Android platform that are licensed for use under a free...

From CNET: AT&T is banking that its video, and not its traditional wireless service, will get you to take a second look at the nation's second-largest phone company.

Let's face it, growth in the wireless market, AT&T's bread and butter, isn't what it used to be. That's especially true for the...

From ComputerWorld: Sony has reached an agreement to acquire chip company Altair Semiconductor for $212 million in a bid to strengthen its offering for the Internet of Things market.

Altair, based in Israel, is a developer of modem chip technology and software relating to the LTE (Long Term...

From PC World: Fans of multi-monitor desktop setups might want to keep an eye on LG and Samsung, who’ve got a bunch of extreme widescreen panels in the pipeline—ones even longer than the stretched-out LG 34UM67 FreeSync monitor pictured above.

Samsung, for instance, is working on 41-inch and 49...