From CNET: T-Mobile is the first major carrier to push an update to remaining Samsung Galaxy Note 7 handsets that will prevent the phone battery from charging.
Once updated, the phones will display an on-screen notification about the recall with instructions and they will no longer have the ability...
From InfoWorld: ChakraCore, the open source core of the JavaScript engine powering Microsoft's Edge browser, has been upgraded with experimental support for the WebAssembly portable code format for browsers and cross-platform JIT compilation capabilities.
WebAssembly, which has been backed by...
From CNET: The Seattle-based retailer giant shipped more than 1 billion items with Prime around the world for the holiday season, more than five times its sales last holiday season, between November 1 to December 19.
The Echo Dot was the most coveted gift out of items shipped from Amazon, which...
From PC World: Mozilla will shut down support for its Firefox browser running on Windows XP and Windows Vista in 2017, the company said last week.
The exact timing of Firefox’s retirement from those Microsoft operating systems will be determined in the summer, according to a post to a company blog...
From CNET: So I guess I can finally stop trying to perfect my pronunciation of Cyanogen, the company that tried and failed to kill Google's Android OS and never grabbed much mainstream appeal.
The startup announced late Friday that "as part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen," it's shutting...
As a first-time reviewer, I feel judgement is inevitable concerning both my opinion and the product under review. My claim as a reviewer is without a stake in this new and vast technological territory, and I am reminded of the words of the great role model Uncle Ben from the Spiderman Comics who quipped, “With great power comes great responsibility". Thus, an honest and informative product review is not a task I take lightly. When first...
About three months ago, our Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Kwan attended the 84th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. One of the major topics of the conference was about wireless communication, therefore cell phone manufacturers like Apple had booths there, so they could hire academics with a wireless and mobile communication background. Jonathan talked to one of the representatives from Apple, and he respectfully teased...
From InfoWorld: VMware has released a hotfix for vSphere Data Protection (VDP) to change a hard-coded SSH key that could allow remote attackers to gain root access to the virtual appliance.
VDP is a disk-based backup and recovery product that runs as an open virtual appliance (OVA). It integrates...
From CNET: It's been a short, bumpy trip for the ride-hailing company and its autonomous vehicle program in the state. It took only one week for Uber to unleash its self-driving car pilot on California streets, have the state declare them illegal, and then have Uber pack up and move to Arizona...
From PC World: Apple has backtracked on a plan to force iOS developers to encrypt their app communications by the end of the year.
The company had previously announced at its Worldwide Developers’ Conference in June that all apps submitted to the App Store will need support the App Transport...
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