From CNET: Apple spent 2015 catapulting new toys and services at consumers. Next year will be all about refining its aim.
The Cupertino, California, company wants to touch every aspect of your life, whether on the go with the iPhone 6S or Apple Watch, at your office with an iPad Pro or MacBook, or...
From ComputerWorld: It looks like the Dell-EMC wedding is on: EMC says it hasn't gotten any better proposals, and Dell reportedly is trying to shed Perot Systems to trim down for those photos.
The companies announced their engagement in October, when Dell agreed to buy the massive storage, cloud...
From InfoWorld: It's hard to imagine any marketing campaign worse than Microsoft's ongoing "Get Windows 10" debacle. Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows 7 and 8.1 customers to upgrade to Windows 10, and the backlash from users has been vocal and very negative.
Last week PC World's Brad Chacos...
From PC World: Very soon, the Android OS, Chrome browser and other Google products will stop trusting all digital certificates that are linked to a 20-year-old Verisign root certificate.
The announcement comes after Symantec unveiled plans to retire the Class 3 Public Primary Certification...
From CNET: The makers of MacKeeper, a suite of software that claims to make Macs more secure and stable, is cleaning up after a breach exposed the personal information for millions of its users.
Kromtech, which makes the software, acknowledged Monday that a hole in its security exposed the...
From CNET: Microsoft has back-pedalled on cuts it made to OneDrive cloud storage limits last month, giving back some of the data allowances it was set to take away and apologising for putting the blame on users for excessive use.
Customers will still need to opt-in to keep their bonus storage...
From PC World: Popup ads are, for better or worse, a fact of life on the Internet. They are not, however, something you'd expect to see in the App Store app for iOS. But as 9to5Mac reported late last week, Apple is apparently using a popup ad in the App Store to promote the iPhone 6s to owners of...
From ComputerWorld: Yahoo is looking to pull a whole lot of new users into its new Yahoo Mail app by adding support for Google's popular Gmail.
Yahoo, which has been in turmoil lately, launched its Mail app this past October, adding support for email services like Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail...
A story was told of a bunch of English scientists digging down a kilometer into the ground, and found traces of copper wires a thousand years old. For this, they came to the conclusion their ancestors had a telephone network a millennium ago. In response to that, Scottish scientists, not to be outdone by their English counterparts, dug two kilometers down, and found traces of fiber optic cables dating back to the time of Jesus. As such, the...
Winter in Calgary is very much like a roller coaster. The temperatures seem to rise or fall randomly, and it is possible to go from temperatures well below zero to temperatures above zero in one day. For me, this is the most frustrating part of winter, since it feels like it cannot decide if it wants to be warm or cold -- much like choosing which restaurant to go to for dinner. I have to wake up early in the morning, scrape the ice off of my car...
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