From InfoWorld: Apple has a new programming language, Swift, intended to provide modern programming capabilities for Apple application development and streamline the building of applications.
Featured as part of the Xcode 6 IDE (now in a beta release) and introduced this morning, Swift is a...
From PC World: Intel’s fifth-generation Core processor family—code-named Broadwell—might be late, but the company has cooked up a couple of brand-new Haswell-class desktop CPUs that PC enthusiasts are sure to dig. Code-named Devil’s Canyon, Intel unveiled the all-new Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K...
From CNET: For the past two years, Apple's WWDC keynote has included significant Mac hardware announcements and introductions alongside the software and OS news the conference is built around. The MacBook Air, in particular, has been tied to the WWDC June timetable for its past couple of generations...
From DailyTech: With companies like Apple, Samsung, and HTC taking up the bulk of the attention when it comes to smartphones, it’s easy to forget that Sony makes some high-quality devices running Google’s dominant Android operating system.
Today, Sony is looking to add a bit of a “premium” feel to...
From PC World: Windows 8.1's market share has finally inched ahead of Windows 8's, according to the May 2014 statistics Netmarket share released yesterday.
But the combined legacy juggernaut of Windows 7 and Windows XP still dwarfs all versions of Windows 8 combined. And it's Windows 7 -- not 8 --...
From PC World: Forget the pokey transfer speeds and rinky-dink storage capacities of yesteryear's flash drives. Corsairs mashing up SSDs with USB at Computex, with the announcement of the Corsair Flash Voyager GTX USB Flash Drive—a flash drive that is, for all intents and purposes, a modern SSD in...
From CNET: T-Mobile subscribers who own the Google Nexus 5 or 7 could get a dose of Android 4.4.3 KitKat before the day is over.
In two separate and updated support documents, T-Mobile promised the Nexus 5 smartphone and the Nexus 7 tablet would start to receive Android 4.4.3 beginning June 2...
From DailyTech: Probably one of the most interesting products that you will see come out of this year’s Computex has just been announced by ASUS. You could say that the Transformer Book V has a bit of an identity crisis, because as its name implies, it features five different operating modes. It can...
When the recent student union elections were held at the University of Calgary, there was a candidate running for a vice president position with a quirky yet neat idea. This person had other platform points, but one of them was to bring, what he dubbed, "Power Towers" to the university. These are universal-charging stations (Presumably USB) with the ability to charge at a "faster rate", while increasing Wi-Fi bandwidth throughout the university...
When Lenovo Canada made a "mistake" of selling an IdeaPad Y410p with an Intel Core i7-4700MQ processor, dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GT755M graphics, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and 1TB hard drive for $279 CAD last week, no one could have imagined it to turn out to be its worst ever public relations disaster ever recorded in the company's history. If you do not know what is going on, we here at APH Networks has the entire story covered live as it unfolded...
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