From PC World: Some payment terminals can be hijacked to commit mass fraud against customers and merchants, researchers have found.

The terminals, used predominantly in Germany but also elsewhere in Europe, were designed without following best security principles, leaving them vulnerable to a...

From CNET: Hulu's January looks very good. For spy fans, check out "Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007" and "Mission: Impossible" starring Tom Cruise. Both arrive on January 1. Some fun movies like "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Scrooged" hit Hulu on that same day.

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From PC World: NetApp is acquiring startup SolidFire for US$870 million cash for a foothold in the fast-growing market for scale-out flash storage.

SolidFire's all-flash systems will let enterprises take advantage of the scale and cost advantages enjoyed by Web-scale companies with distributed data...

From ComputerWorld: Cortana for Android users are expressing their frustration after Microsoft turned off the app's "Hey Cortana" voice activation feature on Sunday.

While reviewers are frustrated that they can't activate Microsoft's virtual assistant using just their voice, it seems that the...

From InfoWorld: Security issues have long bedeviled users of Oracle's Java SE, and on Monday the FTC's efforts to address the problem finally came to fruition.

Oracle has agreed to settle charges that it deceived consumers about the security provided by updates to its Java Standard Edition software...

From CNET: Apple has trimmed the prices of its newest iPhones in a country where their cost is beyond the reach of most consumers, according to a news report.

The company has lowered prices on its iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus by up to 16 percent in India as demand for the devices fell following...

From PC World: Apple has agreed to pay Ericsson royalties on the wireless devices it sells in settlement of a long-standing patent dispute.

Ericsson owns patents that it considers essential to the implementation of a number of mobile communications standards, including GSM, the 3G standard UMTS and...

From ComputerWorld: The discovery of spying code nestled deeply in Juniper's networking equipment, the latest example of a major IT vendor caught up in an damaging cyberattack, raises many questions.

Juniper said Thursday that one of its firewall operating systems had been modified to allow...

From InfoWorld: Mozilla has taken concrete, if small, steps to realizing WebAssembly, a next-generation approach to Web browsers supporting scripting in multiple languages.

Based on a recent blog post, Mozilla has produced a working toolchain to compile code into WebAssembly. The toolchain is still...

From CNET: Samsung is finally offering a 128GB edition of its Galaxy Note 5, though you'll have to shop in South Korea to grab one.

On Friday, Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 5 Winter Edition with 128 gigabytes of onboard storage. Priced at 999,900 Korean won (around $843), the new Note 5 will be...