From X-bit Labs: It is not a secret that demand for personal computers is rather low these days. This can be explained by protracted economic downturn, the rise of media tablets and smartphones, prolonged PC lifecycles by both consumers and businesses and many other reasons. What we do know now is...

From InfoWorld: Bas Bosschert, a self-billed "consultant/sysadmin/entrepreneur," has demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit that shows how the locally stored message database used by WhatsApp can be read by any other Android application with local access to the file system.

Though the WhatsApp...

From PC World: Amazon is tacking $20 onto the price of its Amazon Prime service, bringing the yearly cost to $99.

This is the first price hike for Amazon Prime since it was introduced nine years ago. The service originally included just free two-day shipping on most orders, but has since expanded...

From DailyTech: Nikon has rolled out a new digital camera called the Nikon 1 V3. The camera is an interchangeable lens unit that claims to have the fastest shooting rate with autofocus tracking – 20 fps. The camera also offers 720p slow motion recording at 120 fps. Nikon touts that its new camera...

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Storage Solutions has introduced its all-new high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) with PCI Express interface for enterprise-class computing. The new Z-Drive 4500 series delivers even higher performance in comparison to OCZ’s Z-Drive R4 Series, leverages 19nm MLC NAND flash...

From EETimes: Intel, Mellanox, and Vello Systems are among the latest companies announcing new standards efforts for optical networking at the OFC Conference this week. They aim to smooth the flow of a rising tide of data at various points through Internet datacenters and carrier networks.

Intel...

From PC World: Adobe released updates for Flash Player that fix two vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to bypass security controls in the software.

One of the vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2014-0504, can be exploited to read the contents of a computer’s clipboard, the short-term data...

From DailyTech: Reports of the demise of HTC Corp.'s (TPE:2498) high-end offerings appear to have been inaccurate. While the company has publicly stated it is focusing to a greater extent on budget and midrange offerings, its release of a second generation HTC One is showing that the Taiwanese...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has announced the introduction of its AM1 platform featuring the AMD quad-core and dual-core “Kabini” APU into the component channel for system builders. The low-cost/low-power chips in pin-grid array (PGA) packaging will offer additional flexibility to system...

From EETimes: Semiconductor supplier Marvell in Santa Clara, Calif., rolled out Monday, March 10 its Kinoma Create JavaScript-powered Internet of Things construction kit. Marvell said that the software/hardware combined tool kit is designed for "software developers, makers, and designers" to easily...