From ComputerWorld: Nokia has reached an agreement to sell its Here mapping and location services business to an automotive industry consortium consisting of Audi, BMW Group and Daimler, in a deal that gives the business an enterprise value of €2.8 billion ($3.1 billion).
The deal fits with the...
From InfoWorld: With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft is emphasizing development of universal Windows apps. But an industry analyst questions Microsoft's moving-target universal apps strategy.
The OS provides platform convergence with Windows running on a single, unified core, meaning an app...
From PC World: Now that AT&T owns DirecTV, it’s bundling mobile broadband and satellite TV together at a discount.
Starting August 10, new subscribers can pay $200 per month for four lines of smartphone service with 10GB of shared data, plus DirecTV on four televisions with 145 channels. That’s...
From CNET: Apple is no longer king of the smartphone market in China, according to research firm Canalys.
For the second quarter of the year, local mobile phone vendor Xiaomi bounced back with an estimated market share of 15.9 percent to steal the top spot away from Apple. Fellow Chinese vendor...
Ask me what my favorite color is, and I would probably say something like blue. I am not entirely sure why, but the color blue is calming and ferocious at the same time. In my wardrobe, my clothing reflects a similar trend, as most of my clothing is white, black, or blue. On the other hand, one of the few colors I have in my wardrobe is pink. I have a single tie which is black and pink, and that is about it. I actually really like that tie, so no...
A few months ago, my friend asked me what the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta is. "Well," I explained. "It is a political party that is neither progressive nor conservative." While I am not here to debate politics here on APH Networks (Although I will still stand by my opinion that Ralph Klein is still the best premier Alberta ever had), if you think about it, the name of the party seems to be self-contradictory. However, if you look a...
From PC World: Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has blasted Microsoft in a pair of posts to the organization’s blog, arguing that Windows 10’s default browser settings are a “dramatic step backwards” for respecting user choice.
When people update their devices to Microsoft’s new operating system, their...
From CNET: Chinese TV manufacturer Hisense has today announced it will acquire Sharp America in a deal worth $23.7 million that will see it take over the Japanese company's TV business in North and South America.
Hisense Group today released a statement confirming it would purchase "all equity and...
From DailyTech: With Windows 10's release Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is clearly shaking up its traditional business and software models, delivering an OS for free to consumers (mostly) and continuing its shift to an all-internet distribution model. It's also disabled the user ability to indefinitely...
From InfoWorld: John Curran, CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), told attendees at the Campus Technology conference in Boston on Wednesday that the IP address authority's pool of IPv4 addresses has dwindled to 90,000 and will be exhausted in about two weeks.
"This is a pretty...
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