From InfoWorld: Hard on the heels of a decision to step up the frequency of Windows updates, Microsoft on Thursday announced it would give customers 17 months to stop using older versions of Internet Explorer (IE), including the most popular of them all, IE8.
The decision will further complicate...
From PC World: Acer’s new Chromebook 13, announced and available for pre-sale Monday, brings advanced processing power to a category that’s better known for pushing cheaply made, basic browsing machines.
Its 13.3-inch display alone would garner attention (most Chromebooks have squinty 11-inch...
From CNET: While still exorbitantly expensive, prices on LG's OLED TVs are falling fast.
LG has announced its second-generation OLED TV, the 55EC9300, will be on sale at Best Buy August 24th for $3,500. It's available for pre-order now at BestBuy.com.
That just $1000 more than the highest-end 55...
From DailyTech: On Monday South Korea's LG Electronics, Inc. will bring its well reviewed international Android flagship device, the LG G3, to China. The device will retail for CN¥ (yuan) 3,999 (~$650 USD), around the same price as Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s Galaxy S5 and Apple, Inc.'s...
If you ask me about the word fury, a few things come to mind. First is Colonel Nicholas Joseph Fury, better known as Nick Fury, the former director of the Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division, or S.H.I.E.L.D. for short. Of course, most of you probably just think he is still the director, but in fact this is not so, and I will let Marvel tell you the actual details of what happened. Anyways, when I think of Nick...
From PC World: Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank saw its profit dwindle dramatically in the April to June quarter as customer growth slowed.
Japan’s third-biggest mobile phone company logged a net profit of ¥77.57 billion (US$759 million) for the quarter, down 68 percent from ¥244 billion a year...
From CNET: The Bing translation feature in Twitter that quietly made an appearance two months ago has suddenly gone away, according to many users.
The feature, which showed up earlier this year, allowed Twitter users to quickly translate posts that were in another language. At the time, it was...
From DailyTech: T-Mobile has managed to pass Sprint and become No. 1 in the U.S. prepaid wireless sector. According to T-Mobile, it now has 15.64 million prepaid customers, which surpasses Sprint’s 15.19 million customers in the same market.
The big U.S. mobile players are far behind, with AT&T...
From InfoWorld: A security review of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from multiple manufacturers revealed that they typically have more vulnerabilities than home routers, a class of devices known for poor security and vulnerable code.
Jacob Holcomb, a security analyst at Baltimore-based...
From PC World: Struggling PC maker Acer is showing signs of recovery with its report of improved profits in the second quarter, albeit on a smaller revenue base than a year earlier.
During the period, Acer’s net profit reached NT$485 million (US$16.2 million), up from a net loss of NT$343 million a...
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