From InfoWorld: Low-cost smartphones like the Moto G5 introduced a few months ago are shipping with soon-to-be-outdated chips from Qualcomm, which has announced successor chips.
Qualcomm on Monday introduced the Snapdragon 630 and 660, which are massive upgrades to chips used in low-cost...
From PC World: In the age of high definition video streaming, you can't get very far with 200MB of mobile data. That appears to be the reason T-Mobile quietly killed its Free Data for Life program on Sunday.
Originally introduced in 2013, Free Data for Life gave tablet users 200MB of free data for...
From CNET: The e-commerce giant on Tuesday revealed its newest device, the Echo Show, it's first smart speaker with a built-in screen. The new device was announced just weeks after Amazon presented the Echo Look, its first Echo with a built-in camera.
CNET in April reported that Amazon was likely...
From PC World: For the umpteenth time, Dell Technologies has reiterated that PCs are important to the company, and it won't quit the market.
But PCs occupied only a few minutes of CEO Michael Dell's opening keynote at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas on Monday. PCs are the engine that keep enterprises...
From InfoWorld: The point of antivirus is to keep malware off the system. A particularly nasty software flaw in Microsoft’s antivirus engine could do the exact opposite and let attackers install malware on vulnerable systems.
The critical security vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection...
From PC World: If you hate waiting for your smartphone to charge, relief is coming soon.
After some hiccups, Qualcomm’s superfast charging technology, called Quick Charge 4, will be in smartphones around the middle of this year.
Qualcomm says Quick Charge 4 is one of the fastest smartphone battery...
From CNET: The internet retailer on Sunday began offering the smart speaker for $150 in the US, a price cut of $30 from its previous price. The discount, presented as a Mother's Day gift idea, is available on both black and white models through May 13 -- the day before Mother's Day is celebrated in...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft will change the nomenclature of its Windows 10 release model in September, dropping terms used since the operating system's debut and substituting names that sync with Office 365.
In an online Q&A Thursday about "Windows as a service," Microsoft's concept of an ever...
From PC World: Next week, PC vendors will start rolling out patches that fix a severe vulnerability found in certain Intel-based business systems, including laptops, making them easier to hack.
Intel on Friday released a new notice urging clients to take steps to secure their systems.
The...
Google cancelled an intriguing idea not too long ago; it was called Project Ara. The idea originally started on Kickstarter, a place where plenty of cool but difficult to implement ideas come from. Although there are quite a few good ideas on Kickstarter, this project, like many others, failed due to impractical implementation in the current market. To many of us, a modular smartphone is a great idea. When one feature breaks or is slowing down...
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