Industry

SoftBank to take over mobile distributor Brightstar for $1.26 billion

Brightstar distributes phones and other devices for carriers in more than 50 countries

Today’s special: Apoplectic over Apple, lax at LinkedIn, bearish on Ballmer

Hating on Apple? Too hard on LinkedIn? What's wrong with Ballmer? Everyone has an opinion

Why Intel’s more-of-the-same processors aren’t enough

Intel's alleged ultracheap holiday season offerings aren't likely to make a dent in the decline of the Wintel empire

Apple warns of SSD failures in MacBook Air, offers free replacements

Apple is replacing 64GB and 128GB SSDs in MacBook Airs sold between June 2012 and June 2013

China’s Huawei turns the table on security after Snowden NSA leaks

US security concerns regarding Huawei networking equipment may no longer carry much weight, according to analysts

Investors heart GOOGLE, king of post-PC world — MS ships RDP for iOS and Android — POGUE pans WINDOWS 8.1 — OBAMACARE website: Testing? What testing?

Facebook ‘stalker’ tool uses Graph Search for powerful data mining

Even if a person has a locked profile, their interactions with others are revealing, say Trustwave security experts

AMD reports Q3 profit after reducing reliance on PCs

AMD's revenue was driven by custom chips for products like Xbox One and PlayStation 4

Resurrected KB 951847 ‘zombie’ patch fixed — but now has new problem

Botched patch installs .Net Framework 3.5 without warning or consent -- even on systems that have studiously avoided .Net

Trade secrets protection set to get tougher

Legal protection of trade secrets on a state-by-state basis has created enforcement problems. Now push is on for federal legislation