BlackBerry and Samsung team up to beef up security on Samsung devices

From CNET: At an enterprise event in San Francisco on Thursday, Samsung and BlackBerry announced a partnership that couples Samsung's Knox platform with BlackBerry's enterprise know-how. It's all built on BlackBerry's upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Services 12 platform, and aims to bolster Android...

New Windows 10 Technical Preview arrives: Build 9879

From InfoWorld: Windows 10 spokesperson Gabe Aul posted new details about the latest version of Windows 10. If you're running Windows 10 Technical Preview build 9860, you can go to PC Settings, Update and recovery, Preview builds, and click or tap on Download Now to get build 9879.

Or if you've...

LG records its highest-ever market share in North America

From CNET: LG reported a 16.3 percent smartphone market share in North America for the third quarter of 2014, more than twice the 7.4 percent it had a year ago, according to the latest analysis from the US-based Strategy Analytics. The boost was largely thanks to the company's latest flagship, the...

Microsoft is Open-Sourcing Most of .NET, Adding OS X and Linux Support

From DailyTech: Microsoft has announced that it will be open sourcing most of its software development libraries and will be releasing .NET libraries and tools for Linux and OS X. This bold move brings one of the world's most used development environments to new homes, although success is far from...

Seagate preps for 30TB laser-assisted hard drives

From InfoWorld: Seagate Technology is boosting investments in laser-assisted hard disk drive technology that it projects will allow it to increase capacity five-fold.

The laser technology, known as heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), is able to write smaller, more-stable bits onto the magnetic...

Adobe fixes 18 critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player

From PC World: Adobe Systems released critical security updates Tuesday for Flash Player to address 18 vulnerabilities, many of which can be remotely exploited to compromise underlying systems.

Fifteen of the patched vulnerabilities can result in arbitrary code execution, one can be exploited to...

Yahoo confirms $640M purchase of video ad startup BrightRoll

From CNET: The web company announced Tuesday it had paid $640 million in cash for the San Francisco startup, which helps customers buy and sell video ads on websites, mobile devices and connected TVs. In a blog post confirming the acquisition Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer predicted that...

Lollipop Arrives for Unlocked Second Generation Moto G Smartphones

From DailyTech: While Nexus smartphone owners are sitting around waiting for an official Android 5.0 Lollipop update from Google, it appears that owners of Motorola’s second generation Moto G smartphone are now receiving their OTA update. The news comes courtesy of Ars Technica, which states that...

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