eWEEK Staff

Today’s topics include Intel’s recall of its Basic Peak smartwatches because of an overheating issue, the release of the Blackberry Hub+ productivity suite for Android smartphones, the results of a social experiment to see if people actually will plug random USB sticks they found on the ground into their PCs and IBM’s development of artificial […]

Today’s topics include a university professor’s discovery of an alternative way for law enforcement to unlock smartphones, Google’s initiation of new customer-supplied cloud data encryption keys, IBM’s X-Force Red security team that was created with the goal of identifying vulnerabilities in enterprise IT systems and Instagram’s introduction of its new “Stories” feature to make it […]

Today’s topics include the debut of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phablet, HPE’s reorganization of its cloud unit, a security researcher’s Black Hat presentation on a flaw affecting Windows that allows cyber-threats to evade antivirus scanners, and IBM’s launch of its new lab-on-a-chip that’s designed to fight cancer. Samsung unveiled its latest Galaxy Note 7 […]

Today’s topics include LG’s announcement that its flagship V20 smartphone will run on Android 7.0 Nougat, Microsoft’s plans to eliminate nearly 3,000 Nokia jobs by June 2017, the beginning of the Black Hat USA and DefCon security conferences and Qualcomm’s licensing agreement that will allow GuangDong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications to use Qualcomm’s chips in the […]

According to separate reports citing unnamed sources, private equity groups are either interested in buying some of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software assets, including Autonomy and Vertica, that HPE is said to be considering shedding or they are looking to buy the giant tech vendor outright for about $40 billion and taking it private. Either direction […]

Today’s topics include Oracle’s proposed purchase of NetSuite in an effort to bolster the company’s cloud presence; BlackBerry’s new ultra-secure Android smartphone, the DTEC50; Microsoft’s plan to launch an education market edition of Windows 10 Pro; and Apple’s announcement that it sold its 1 billionth iPhone. Oracle made another aggressive move to expand its cloud […]

Today’s topics include a government agency’s report that two-factor authentication via SMS is insecure, the United Kingdom’s decision to allow Amazon to test its drone delivery service, the newest addition to IBM’s all-flash storage offerings and Edward Snowden’s idea for a mobile phone case that guards against electronic snooping. While Google has encouraged users to […]

Today’s topics include the release of a preview version of Microsoft’s Upgrade Analytics service, AT&T CEO’s call for a concerted effort to stop robocalls, the release of new graphics technologies from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, and the discovery that security vulnerabilities persist in Adobe Flash even after the flaws are patched. Microsoft on July […]

Today’s topics include Verizon’s $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s internet businesses, the Federal Communication Commission chairman’s appeal for efforts to stop robocallers, the resignation of Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg following another poor earnings report, and the newly created company that will market a hyperconverged cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Microsoft tried seriously to buy Yahoo in its […]

Today’s topics include the rumor that one of Apple’s iPhone 7 models will be its largest smartphone yet, the correction of a manufacturing defect in the Samsung Galaxy S7 Active smartphone, the discovery of a security flaw with the Uber app that proves the worth of bug bounty programs and the completion of the first […]