From CNET: Windows 8.1 carved out more of the desktop OS market last month, though its progress remains slow.
For the month of August, Windows 8.1 eked out a 7.09 percent market share based on all the desktop OS traffic seen by Web tracker Net Applications. That number was up slightly from 6.56...
From DailyTech: When the Android Wear operating system was first unveiled in March, the clear [hardware] star of the show was the Motorola Moto 360 smartwatch with its classic, round face. Since that time, some rather forgettable designs have hit the market in the form of the LG G Watch and the...
Some questions have obvious answers. For example, what is the difference between a dress and a skirt? Uhh... actually, I am a guy, so I really did not know the difference until someone told me three months ago. As it turned out, my colleague Aaron was no exception; he actually found out just last week. If you have not searched up the difference yet, basically, a dress is full body, whereas a skirt only covers up to the waist. Therefore, to make...
This is an excerpt from a poem in Cantar de Mio Cid or The Poem of the Cid, and it describes the great power of the Tizona. Even before Ferrán González was struck by the Tizona, he knew immediately that he was finished, just by the sight of this mighty sword. Now you may be wondering, what is the Tizona? You might think of the game Terraria, where the Tizona was one of the strongest swords in the console version of this game. But the Tizona is...
From PC World: Mozilla's advertising experiment for the new tab page in Firefox is popping up in the nightly test builds of the browser. Called Directory Tiles, the new program mixes website suggestions from sponsors and sites based on your browsing history in the new tab page for Firefox, and the...
From CNET: Much of the talk about upcoming PCs revolves around the next generation of processors from Intel. Codenamed Broadwell, those chips include the next generation of Core i-series CPUs, expected in products next year, and a new line for slim, low-power devices, called Core M, expected in late...
From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) recently launched an Xbox One SKU that ditched the console's embattled "killer app" -- the voice and movement Kinect 2 sensor. The new standalone SKU trimmed $100 off the price of the original Xbox One and Kinect sensor bundle, selling for $399.
The move...
From InfoWorld: Enterprises that want to share and store files online have yet another option now that Amazon Web Services has opened its Zocalo service to general availability.
This year has seen Amazon focus more on services aimed directly at end users; besides Zocalo it has also come out with...
From GreenBot: Just two months after releasing the pedestrian G Watch, LG on Wednesday unveiled the much more stylish G Watch R, a round-faced Android Wear smartwatch that could make you think twice about buying the Moto 360. We haven’t yet seen the G Watch R in person, but based on LG’s images, it...
From CNET: Samsung is showing that it's serious about smartwatches. But are consumers taking it seriously?
Late Wednesday, Samsung unveiled the Gear S, its sixth smartwatch launch in the past year. This device is the first in Samsung's lineup to include a 3G cellular radio, which allows you to...
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