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Sometimes, combining two ideas together create an absolutely ingenious solution. Other times, you end up with something so pointless, it gets you simply nowhere. The camera phone is a prime example of an ingenious solution. As the saying goes, "The best camera you have is the one you have with you." With the popularity explosion of the mobile phone in the last two decades or so, integrating a camera onto it revolutionized the world in more than...

Microsoft, Google, Mozilla team to build a faster Web

From InfoWorld: Web apps and pages may soon get a speed boost to rival the performance of native desktop and mobile applications, thanks to a new standards initiative from Microsoft, Google and Mozilla.

The work, WebAssembly, provides a way to compile the source code for the programmatic parts of...

Expect Windows 10 Mobile to improve significantly in July, Microsoft exec says

From PC World: Tap a Windows 10 Mobile app, then go back to the home screen. Chances are you’ll see an annoying “Loading...” message. But with Microsoft wrapping up work on the desktop version of Windows 10, look for the fit and finish of Windows 10 Mobile to improve soon.

Greg Sullivan...

Lyft pays New York $300K to settle lawsuit

From CNET: Lyft's yearlong tussle with New York State lawmakers ended Thursday when the ride-hailing service agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties to settle a lawsuit alleging it illegally operated in the state.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and former State Superintendent of Financial...

Apple Watch is Available to Order Again, 2.79 Million Units Estimated Sold so Far

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) Apple Watch sprinted out the gate with roughly 900k units sold via preorders, but word of supply shortfall quickly spread. Particularly telling, Apple froze the preorders relatively quickly and made it clear that while the smartwatch would be able to test at...

Oracle profit slides 24 percent as customers move to the cloud

From InfoWorld: Oracle has reported a sharp drop in profit for the quarter just ended, with customers spending more on its cloud services but less on software that runs in their own data centers.

Chairman Larry Ellison portrayed the shift as a positive one and said Oracle can make more money...

HP announces back-to-school Envy and Pavilion laptops with USB-C and detachable screens

From PC World: HP’s new crop of back-to-school laptops debut when summer has barely started—but the countdown to Windows 10 is already under way, and with that comes a lot of new hardware. On Thursday the company announced four laptops aimed at students: the Pavilion x2, and three new Envy models...

Nintendo having to increase production estimates to keep up with Amiibo toy demand

From CNET: When it comes to Nintendo's Amiibo line of toys, demand is still far larger than the company had expected.

Nintendo has been significantly raising its internal production estimates for the figurines, which are molded to look like popular characters, such as Mario or his pal Yoshi from...

Penalty-Plagued AT&T Smacked With $100M FCC Fine for Data Slowing

From DailyTech: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today its intent to fine AT&T, Inc. (T) $100M USD for allegedly pulling a bait-and-switch on customers regarding "unlimited" data. The fine is the second major fine levied against the carrier by the FCC in under a year.

The...

Microsoft: Cortana is coming to Android in July

From InfoWorld: Competition is good, but what if that competition means you have to make a choice between digital assistants? You'll have the luxury of experiencing this dilemma later this summer.

Microsoft announced it's bringing Cortana to Android as soon as July. Android users will be able to...