Apple loses top spot in Chinese smartphone market to Xiaomi

From CNET: Apple is no longer king of the smartphone market in China, according to research firm Canalys.

For the second quarter of the year, local mobile phone vendor Xiaomi bounced back with an estimated market share of 15.9 percent to steal the top spot away from Apple. Fellow Chinese vendor...

Kingston HyperX Cloud II Review (Page 1 of 4)

Ask me what my favorite color is, and I would probably say something like blue. I am not entirely sure why, but the color blue is calming and ferocious at the same time. In my wardrobe, my clothing reflects a similar trend, as most of my clothing is white, black, or blue. On the other hand, one of the few colors I have in my wardrobe is pink. I have a single tie which is black and pink, and that is about it. I actually really like that tie, so no...

Seagate Desktop SSHD ST4000DX001 4TB Review (Page 1 of 10)

A few months ago, my friend asked me what the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta is. "Well," I explained. "It is a political party that is neither progressive nor conservative." While I am not here to debate politics here on APH Networks (Although I will still stand by my opinion that Ralph Klein is still the best premier Alberta ever had), if you think about it, the name of the party seems to be self-contradictory. However, if you look a...

Mozilla CEO blasts Microsoft over Windows 10 defaults

From PC World: Mozilla CEO Chris Beard has blasted Microsoft in a pair of posts to the organization’s blog, arguing that Windows 10’s default browser settings are a “dramatic step backwards” for respecting user choice.

When people update their devices to Microsoft’s new operating system, their...

Hisense to buy Sharp America in $23.7M deal

From CNET: Chinese TV manufacturer Hisense has today announced it will acquire Sharp America in a deal worth $23.7 million that will see it take over the Japanese company's TV business in North and South America.

Hisense Group today released a statement confirming it would purchase "all equity and...

Windows 10 to Get New Features in October Service Release 2 (SR2)

From DailyTech: With Windows 10's release Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is clearly shaking up its traditional business and software models, delivering an OS for free to consumers (mostly) and continuing its shift to an all-internet distribution model. It's also disabled the user ability to indefinitely...

Americas are just 2 weeks away from running out of IPv4 addresses

From InfoWorld: John Curran, CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), told attendees at the Campus Technology conference in Boston on Wednesday that the IP address authority's pool of IPv4 addresses has dwindled to 90,000 and will be exhausted in about two weeks.

"This is a pretty...

Samsung plots Galaxy S6 price cut, new phones to help business

From ComputerWorld: Lackluster demand for its flagship Galaxy S6 smartphone and higher marketing costs led Samsung Electronics to another quarter of falling sales and profits in the April to June period.

Net profit at the company was 5.75 trillion won (US$49 billion), down 8 percent on the same...

Apple releases the third public beta of OS X 10.11 El Capitan

From InfoWorld: Beta testers: to the App Store! Apple released an update to the El Capitan public beta on Wednesday, the third version. If three is your lucky number, we've got instructions on how to sign up for the beta program, and a how-to on filing feedback when you encounter bugs. Once you're...

Oracle preps 'Sonoma' chip for low-priced Sparc servers

From PC World: Oracle is looking to expand the market for its Sparc-based servers with a new, low-cost processor dubbed Sonoma that its engineers will discuss publically for the first time later this month.

The company isn’t saying yet when the chip will be available, but if it delivers as...

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