South Korea-based LG will introduce two new flagship phones this year in an attempt to revive its sagging sales. On Tuesday, the company revealed that it lost 43.8 billion South Korean Won ($36.4 million) in its mobile phone division for the final quarter of 2015. That’s a huge drop from the $56 million profit the …

Is your Uber driver going too fast or stopping too short? The ride-hailing service says it will now be able to find out. Uber has been conducting a test program to measure the actions of its drivers, the San Francisco company said in a blog post Tuesday. By checking the GPS and accelerometers in a driver’s smartphone, Uber can detect …

Spotify wants to get you to look as well as listen. The online music service plans to add video content to its Android app sometime this week and to its iOS app by the end of next week. Available in the US, UK, Germany and Sweden, the videos will consist of short clips, along with podcasts, from such providers as …

Apple may have new MacBooks up its sleeve in the first half of the year. The company is planning to upgrade its MacBook lineup by June, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in an investors note picked up Sunday by AppleInsider. Kuo had no specifics about which components or features will be upgraded, though AppleInsider suggests a bump up to …

Still waiting for Android 6.0 Marshmallow to hit your phone or tablet? You’re in good company. Though it’s been available to some since October 5, Marshmallow has made its way into just 0.7 percent of all Android devices, according to the latest stats provided by Google’s Android Developer Dashboard. That number is up from 0.5 percent a month ago. Google …

Loyal users of Yahoo’s many services may need to think about alternatives if a vocal investor gets its way. On Wednesday, investment firm Starboard Value called on Yahoo for a change in leadership along with a more aggressive strategy for a spinoff or sale of the company’s core Internet business. In December, Yahoo said that it was open to selling …

Microsoft is putting the kibosh on support for all versions of the Internet Explorer browser except for current version 11. A support document posted by the software giant describes an “end of life” upgrade notification for Internet Explorer that will pop up January 12. The notification will warn people still running IE 8, 9 and 10 that their time is …

Apple device owners helped the company set several records in App Store sales during the holidays. On Wednesday, the iPhone maker reported that customers shelled out more than $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases over the two weeks that ended January 3, setting records for both purchases and traffic at the App Store. January 1 was the most profitable …

Microsoft’s Surface Book is now up for preorder in seven new markets. The laptop-tablet hybrid is available for preorder starting Tuesday in Austria, Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand, the company said in a blog post. Since its October 26 launch, the Surface Book had been limited to sales in North America, although preorders recently kicked off …

Microsoft’s Windows 10 is free for Windows 7 and 8.1 users, but people aren’t exactly rushing to upgrade. The latest version of the Windows software, released in late July, snagged a 9.96 percent share of all Web traffic generated by desktop operating systems in December, tracking company NetMarketShare said Friday. That’s up from 9 percent in November, continuing a tepid …