From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices wants its chips in more laptops, and is devising a new strategy to reverse a free fall it has endured in the PC market over the last few years.
The chip maker is reshaping the way it supplies chips and components with the hope that more PC makers will use its...
From CNET: Gmail is starting to see life again in China.
Google's e-mail service has seen a slight uptick in traffic going into the country, according to the company's Transparency Report. The Financial Times (subscription required) was the first to notice that access had returned.
The increase...
From DailyTech: LG Electronics, Inc. (KRX:066570)(KRX:066575) will reportedly be borrowing a page from domestic rival Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935) with the release of its next G Series smartphone. Asian leaks site ITHome is claiming to have [translated] inside info...
Recently, I had the sudden urge of reconsidering my future. I always had the mindset of having to spend money on "luxury" items I consider a need. After some careful evaluation, I eventually realized most of the items I buy, I usually end up rarely using. As such, I came to re-evaluate many of my decisions before actually forking over the cash on whatever it is I am looking at. This, of course, eventually led me to make an important decision on...
From CNET: Google's Gmail, the world's most widely used e-mail service, has been almost entirely blocked in China for the last three days.
GreatFire.org, a China-based anti-censorship group, indicated that Gmail might have been thrown outside China's firewall, accrording to Reuters.
Google's...
From DailyTech: The world's long-standing top smartphone seller (by volume), Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KRX:005930) (KRX:005935), has searched for some time for an answer to its arch-rival Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) fall iPhone launch. Samsung typically launches its Galaxy S family smartphone in...
From CNET: The Chinese smartphone maker, which has been on a tear over the last four years, has raised $1.1 billion in venture capital funding, giving it a valuation of $45 billion. Bin Lin, Xiaomi co-founder and president, posted the news Monday on Facebook.
The valuation makes Xiaomi the top-dog...
From PC World: “The Interview,” which is already linked to a massive corporate hack, a U.S.-North Korea spat and an outcry over censorship, now has another claim to fame: it’s the most successful online film in Sony Pictures’ history.
Available to stream and download since Wednesday via websites...
By the time you read this, Christmas will be over, and we will be heading into our second big shopping event within the span of two months here in Canada, also known as Boxing Day. In my experience, Boxing Day has always provided better deals than any other shopping event during the year. When I was younger, I would remember waiting for the flyers to come a few days earlier, ready to circle things to purchase the next day. Things have not changed...
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