​Fitbit wants to help you get a better night's sleep

From CNET: A new feature inside of the Fitbit app looks to help improve the sleep habits of millions of Fitbit owners. While a majority of the company's products already offer sleep tracking and let users create custom sleep goals, a new Sleep Schedule will now allow for even more control.

The new...

SwiftKey Beta saves your copied text in new clipboard feature

From PC World: Copying and pasting text is hard enough on a mobile device. It’s even worse when you have to go and grab the same information again.

SwiftKey wants to help. The latest beta of the popular keyboard now debuts a clipboard that can save text copied on your smartphone for later use. It...

Seagate NAS HDD ST8000VN0002 8TB Review (Page 1 of 11)

While I was sitting in the living room of my relatives' house in Toronto watching the Raptors game last month, I received a Facebook message from a friend. "What is the philosophy of design?" she asked. "I need to write an essay about it." Being in engineering and all, how to approach an essay question -- especially on an arts topic -- could not have been more different than my field of expertise. I had a pretty good chuckle, but being a helpful...

FSP Hydro G 850W (Page 1 of 4) | Reports

When you think of car dealers and car salesmen, you usually do not have the best image in mind. I have been in the market for a car, and recently I had to deal with them. During one of my encounters, I worked with three different people at a certain dealership, which I will not name directly. What I will say is it is a Chevrolet dealer off Blackfoot Trail in SE Calgary, Alberta. If you really do not know, they rhyme with the word 'thaw', and...

Salesforce also bid for LinkedIn, but lost out to Microsoft

From PC World: Microsoft surprised everyone Monday when it announced plans to acquire LinkedIn for more than $26 billion. But it wasn’t the only suitor: Salesforce wanted in, too.

The San Francisco-based software-as-a-service vendor was interested in LinkedIn primarily for its recruiting business...

Google pays $550,000 to people who found security holes in Android

From CNET: Google paid 82 people a total of $550,000 in the last year for finding security vulnerabilities that could let hackers compromise phones, tablets, cars and other gadgets powered by the company's Android software.

The company launched the Android Security Rewards program in June 2015 in...

Microsoft buys Wand to improve chat capabilities

From InfoWorld: Satya Nadella wasn't kidding when he said earlier this year that he believed in using chat as a platform for computing. Microsoft just bought Wand, a chat app for iOS, to further that vision.

The Wand team will be joining Bing's engineering and platform group, Corporate Vice...

Samsung buys Joyent to build its a cloud of its own

From PC World: Samsung Electronics is acquiring U.S. cloud services company Joyent as it builds its services business around mobile devices and the Internet of Things.

The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Joyent will operate as a standalone subsidiary under the new...

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