From InfoWorld: Microsoft had a lot to brag about when it announced its first-quarter 2015 financials yesterday. The company boasted of higher gross margins and revenue, big gains in hardware and cloud sales, and -- most important -- a success story in its ongoing reinvention as a cloud services...
From PC World: Prices for AMD’s flagship Radeon R9 290X just keep on plummeting. Mere days after Nvidia unveiled its new GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards, AMD’s hardware partners slashed the cost of many R9 290X models to $400—a triple-digit cut from its previous price. (Other Radeon cards...
From CNET: It's smaller than a crowbar, but Amazon surely wants its new streaming stick to pry users away from Google's Chromecast.
Dubbed the Fire TV Stick, the streaming-media device connects to an HDMI port on the back on an HDTV and streams from sources including Netflix to Hulu Plus to, of...
From DailyTech: When the Xbox One was first released, it came with the Kinect 2 camera and was priced at $499. Earlier this year, Microsoft ditched the Kinect 2 camera and dropped the price of the console to $399.
Now, Microsoft is offering up a temporary price cut on the Xbox One just in top for...
What is the difference between being cheap, and being smart with your money? Being cheap is like asking a girl to go on a date, only to take her to IKEA for breakfast, Costco for lunch, and not worry about dinner, because you are not going to get it. Being smart with your money is like going to the dealership to buy a nice car, but only pay as close to invoice price as market conditions will allow. In both cases, saving money is the end goal, but...
From PC World: LG Electronics is getting into smartphone processor development with an octa-core chip that features in its G3 Screen smartphone, which went on sale Friday in South Korea.
The Nuclun mobile application processor uses ARM’s big.Little design for multitasking, with four 1.5GHz cores...
From CNET: Microsoft is still very much a company in transition. While it continues to incur losses in an attempt to succeed in the mobile device market, Microsoft's cloud services, software and Surface tablet divisions continue to grow.
Microsoft on Thursday posted fiscal first-quarter earnings...
From DailyTech: Amazon continues its trend of huge quarterly losses as it builds out its infrastructure and signs new licensing agreements for services like Amazon Instant Video. For Q3, Amazon recorded a net loss of a $437 billion compared to just $41 million for the same period a year ago.
As...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft is continuing its crusade to get CIOs interested in Windows 10, touting new security features that include two-factor authentication built directly into the OS.
The effort to bake two-factor authentication into Windows 10 is intended at doing away with the old single...
From PC World: Microsoft is withdrawing free streaming on Xbox Music from Dec. 1, citing the need to focus on its music purchase and subscription service.
The company is offering a free 30-day trial for users wanting to move to the paid service.
“Effective December 1, 2014, the free Xbox Music...
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