Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, my favorite pastimes are playing street hockey in the summer, and pond hockey in the winter. When I am not outside imitating my favorite players, I love watching the sport on television. Typically, I choose two teams to cheer for in a season; one is a Stanley Cup contender, and one who is considered the underdogs. My Stanley Cup contenders has and always will be the Chicago Blackhawks, with their young talent and...
From ComputerWorld: The fact that Google launched a new photo sharing and storage service this week isn't ringing the death knell of Google+.
At least that's what Google executives are saying.
"I can commit to … Google+," said Bradley Horowitz, vice president of photos and streams, during a press...
From InfoWorld: Forging ahead with its bread-and-butter mobile platform, Google is offering a developer preview of its upcoming Android M OS, which focuses on improvements in areas ranging from app permissions to mobile payments.
With Android M, Google is focusing on six areas to improve the core...
From PC World: Acer CEO Jason Chen wants his company to be the “last PC maker standing,” he said last month, and on Friday the company continued to rain blows on its competitors with a flurry of new laptops and desktops running Windows and Chrome.
It will show the new PCs at Computex next week...
From CNET: With all the fanfare surrounding Google's new digital payments system, Android Pay, it's easy to ignore the fact that Google already launched a different payments system -- four years ago -- called Google Wallet.
That earlier service was unceremoniously snubbed during the Google I/O...
From InfoWorld: Apple reclaimed the top-rated brand value spot in Millward Brown's annual review on the back of exceptional iPhone 6 sales last year.
The Cupertino, Calif. company, which lost the No. 1 position in 2014 to Google, climbed to an estimated $247 billion in brand value, said the...
From PC World: Microsoft is cleaning house in the Windows Store, enacting policies that could see some apps removed as it tries to reduce clutter and ensure fair pricing ahead of the Windows 10 launch later this year.
The new policies, designed to make it easier for users to find quality apps, will...
From CNET: Avago Technologies and Broadcom, which build components tucked into electronics gear you're probably using, are headed for a merger.
Avago will acquire Broadcom for $37 billion, including $17 billion in cash and $20 billion in Avago stock, and join the two firms into a new company known...
From DailyTech: Combine smartphones and comic books and what do you get? The Galaxy S6 Edge Iron Man Limited Edition from Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935). Samsung unveiled the device online, but left one very big question unanswered. But before I get to that's let's...
From InfoWorld: The administration of President Barack Obama sided with Oracle in a dispute with Google on whether APIs, the specifications that let programs communicate with each other, are copyrightable.
Nothing about the API (application programming interface) code at issue in the case...
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