From DailyTech: Gartner Inc. (IT), a top market research firm, brings good news for Google Inc. (GOOG). The analysts at Gartner estimate that Chromebooks -- notebook computers that run Google's Chrome OS Linux distribution -- will see a 27 percent increase in sales for this year, with sales rising...
My dad once told me there are two great tragedies in life. The first great tragedy is you spend all your money before you die. The second great tragedy is you die before spending all your money. Now, exactly why that is a tragedy probably does not require much explanation. Please feel free to take some time to contemplate on these two statements, but when it comes to SSDs, I think we are faced with a similar problem. If you have the fastest SSD...
I recently played a strategy/adventure video game called Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney on the Nintendo DS. While the game was released more than seven years ago, it belongs in one of my favorite series. In this game particular, you play as a defense attorney named Apollo Justice, who defends his clients through a whole series of different murder cases. Each of the murders are unique with different methods, motives, and contextual backgrounds. In...
From InfoWorld: Once upon a time, it was fair game for most any company to put out a Linux distribution and be described as "committed to Linux." Now the same is happening with container-based Linux distributions, such as CoreOS or Red Hat Atomic Host.
Enter the next contestant: Intel. The CPU...
From PC World: A mobile browser owned by China’s Alibaba Group contained privacy risks that could have exposed users’ personal data, according to a security group.
The flaws were found in UC Browser, a third-party app that’s been expanding in popularity across the globe, and has over 100 million...
From CNET: Google's next update to its Android operating system could come with a new security feature: full support for fingerprint sensors.
At the Google I/O conference next week, Google will unveil native fingerprint authentication support in its expected Android M operating system, BuzzFeed...
From DailyTech: The British Broadcast Corp. (BBC) -- Britain's state-owned news giant -- is in a legal row with Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (TTWO) -- the parent company of Rockstar Games. What maketh said row?
More or less -- the big mouth -- or careless wording of certain BBC public...
From InfoWorld: Performing a search on Google now also displays relevant tweets from Twitter. The integration will widely distribute Twitter content beyond its own site and is also aimed at adding a new real-time element to Google search results.
The changes, previously announced earlier this year...
From PC World: Amazon.com has expanded its Prime Now one-hour deliveries to include groceries, meals and baked goods from local stores in New York, in a move that will soon be extended to other cities.
The deliveries will be available in some Mahattan neighborhoods starting Thursday, and then...
From CNET: Apple's iCloud is having trouble.
Since about 11 p.m. PT Wednesday, Apple's iCloud services, including account sign-in, Find my iPhone, and Mail, are all responding slowly for "some users," Apple's System Status Dashboard shows. Apple's Dashboard doesn't specify how many users are...
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