From InfoWorld: Much to its credit, Microsoft yanked the bad Visual Studio 2010 patch, KB 3001652, within hours of its release yesterday. Reports of the patch's hangs and errors rapidly piled in from all over the Internet.

Today we have another version of the patch appearing in Windows Update, and...

From Mac World: Apple recently extended its two-step verification protections to two more services. The SMS-based security measure now covers FaceTime and iMessage in addition to iCloud and your Apple ID, as first reported by The Guardian.

The new security measure means that if you have two-step...

From CNET: Expedia has agreed to buy Orbitz for $1.3 billion, bringing together two pioneers of online travel.

The deal, announced Thursday, adds to Expedia's long list of travel sites, including Hotels.com, Hotwire and Trivago. The company also last month just finished its acquisition of Sabre's...

From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has at long last ponied up its promised public Technology Preview build of Windows 10 for smartphones. From a revamped set of core apps -- some of which are new -- to a host of new gesture, there's a lot of meat in this very rough early release.

To imagine...

From InfoWorld: Microsoft on Wednesday confirmed that it had purchased mobile calendar app maker Sunrise Atelier, the second major acquisition in the last 11 weeks of a developer experienced in creating Android and iOS apps.

Financial terms were not disclosed by either Microsoft or the privately...

From PC World: The Android smart watch’s time may not yet have come: Despite heavy promotion of Android Wear, Google’s hardware partners, including LG Electronics, Motorola Mobility and Samsung Electronics, only shipped 720,000 of the devices last year.

With the arrival of products such as Motorola...

From CNET: Nvidia posted another quarter of better-than-expected results on Wednesday, as gamers hungry for sharper visuals drove up demand for its computer graphics chips.

However, the company's Tegra mobile-chip business reported a drop in revenue, due in part to the chip being in fewer new...

From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has reportedly taken a bold step in building its in-house Surface hardware team, buying the Surface 3 Pro's stylus maker, N-Trig, for approximately $200M USD.

The input startup was founded in 1999 and is based in Kfar Saba, Israel. To date the company had...

From InfoWorld: Facebook has built a platform where organizations can share information about the security threats they face in order to better fend off cyber attacks.

The need for increased sharing of threat data between companies or between the private sector and government has been a hot topic...

From PC World: Amazon Web Services’ management tool, Config, provides troubleshooting and security analysis features designed to give IT staff more control over cloud resources.

The commercial launch of Config is part of a bigger push by Amazon to make it easier to manage its services. As...