From DailyTech: The Kinect sensor might not be all its cracked up to be on the Xbox One — hence Microsoft’s decision to add a SKU for the console without the camera peripheral for $100 less — but that isn’t stopping the Redmond, Washington-based company from trying again with the PC market.
Early...
When QNAP sent over the TS-559 Pro+ to us for review in September 2010, I decided it was a wise choice to buy a new set of hard drives to go along with the NAS. My requirements were simple; I wanted something reasonably power efficient, reasonably fast, and reasonably priced to run in RAID 5. As it turned out, my "simple" requirements were actually not as simple as I thought. Apparently, regular desktop drives may have problems in RAID, and I was...
From InfoWorld: A new ARM mini-computer that could speed up the development of applications for 64-bit Android L smartphones and tablets will ship late next month.
The hardware, which is an uncased computer, is aimed at professional developers and large companies to help them write middleware...
From PC World: HTC posted a year-over-year gain in net profit for the second quarter, following the release of the company’s latest flagship phone, and new low-end handsets coming to China.
During the period, HTC’s net profit reached NT$2.26 billion (US$75.6 million), up 80.8 percent from a year...
From CNET: Mobile ad spending will grow faster than any other ad channel in the US this year -- up as much as 83 percent to reach $17.7 billion -- as more people spend more time on smartphones and tablets, according to eMarketer.
While advertising on mobile devices remains a small piece of total ad...
From DailyTech: The Galaxy S5 Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) flagship device enjoyed a nice spec bump recently, with the launch of the Galaxy S5 LTE-A. Sporting a Snapdragon 805 processor (with 3GB RAM) from Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), 3 GB of DRAM, and a fancy new 2560x1440...
From InfoWorld: VMware is for the first time inviting anyone to beta test the next version of vSphere, the company's virtualization platform.
The company is hoping to learn more about how organizations use vSphere under real-world conditions and test cases, it said. As VMware has expanded beyond...
From PC World: Sony sold off its Vaio PC unit in February due to sluggish sales, but don't think that means Sony Vaio laptops aren't smoking hot. For the second time in 2014, a Sony PC model is at risk of overheating, smoking, catching on fire, and even melting.
This time around, the smoldering...
From CNET: Amazon is suing a former Amazon Web Services manager who left the cloud computing unit to work for Google's competing service.
The e-commerce giant alleged that Zoltan Szabadi, once a strategic partnerships manager for AWS, has violated a non-compete agreement he signed when he first...
From DailyTech: Atlanta, Georgia-based BitPay is already one of the biggest forces pushing legitimization of Bitcoin as a secure digital payment system. Nicknamed the "PayPal of Bitcoin" it provides easy to integrate APIs and apps to allow businesses to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment and for...
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