LG restructures leadership after smartphone slump

From CNET: LG Electronics on Thursday enacted a major leadership shakeup that will see the company headed up by three representative directors. It hopes that the new directors will "strengthen the company as it enters the new year."

Control of the company will be split three ways between Jo Seong...

LG bets $8.7 billion you'll want a TV with rich OLED colors

From CNET: LG Electronics is going all-in on OLED, the next-generation TV screen technology, announcing on Friday that it's investing $8.71 billion in a plant that will build the ultra-clear panels.

At the plant, the South Korean company mainly will make big panels for televisions but also will...

Sony says PS4 remote game streaming to PCs, Macs coming

From PC World: Sony said its PlayStation 4 will deliver game streaming to PCs and Macs, shortly after a third-party app promised to offer similar functionality.

The addition of the functionality will also take the PS4 closer to rival Xbox, which launched the streaming of Xbox One games to Windows...

Raspberry Pi Zero: The $5 computer has arrived

From ComputerWorld: The Raspberry Pi Foundation has hit rock bottom. After years of working to lower the cost of hobbyist and educational computing, founder Eben Upton says it can go no further: at just $5 its latest creation is as cheap is it can make a computer.

The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero follows...

Raspberry Pi's latest computer costs just $5

From CNET: Raspberry Pi's new educational micro-computer is its cheapest yet -- a pocket-sized device designed to teach kids coding for just $5 (about £3.30 or AU$7).

The Raspberry Pi Zero, unveiled on Thursday, is the latest computer from the British company that has for the last few years made...

Post Google, Mozilla's new search deals to make up revenue

From PC World: The Mozilla Foundation is getting most of its revenue from Yahoo, Yandex and Baidu after the end of its large deal with Google last year.

The nonprofit behind the Firefox browser and other software reported its financial results on Wednesday for 2014, the last year for which the...

Lenovo patches serious flaws in PC system update tool

From ComputerWorld: For the third time in less than six months security issues have forced Lenovo to update one of the tools preloaded on its PCs.

Last week, the company released version 5.07.0019 of Lenovo System Update, a tool that helps users keep their computers' drivers and BIOS up to date and...

After a lapse, Intel looks to catch up with Moore's Law again

From InfoWorld: For Intel, the temporary inability to keep pace with Moore's Law -- the foundation of its business -- was a bit of an embarrassment, but the company is trying hard to catch up.

Moore's Law is an observation that has led to faster, cheaper and smaller computers, and a concept that...

Lawsuit against Microsoft over worker no-poaching deals dismissed

From ComputerWorld: A lawsuit against Microsoft that charged it with entering into restrictive hiring agreements with other companies has been dismissed by a court in California, with the judge declaring that the employees had waited too long to file the suit.

The lawsuit followed up on a class...

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