Microsoft expands Surface availability to new regions

From CNET: While Microsoft's big announcement Wednesday was the availability of its Windows 10 Creators Update, it also took the opportunity to announce the arrival of its Surface products in more parts of the world.

Aussies will now have the opportunity to buy the company's expensive Surface...

Amazon, looking to grow overseas, snags Souq.com

From CNET: Amazon said Tuesday it agreed to purchase Souq.com, one of the biggest e-commerce players in the Arab World

Souq, which means marketplace in Arabic, started in 2005 and now sells over 400,000 products including electronics, clothes and household goods. The deal had been rumored to reach...

Skype for Business admins get tool to diagnose call problems

From InfoWorld: IT administrators who manage a fleet of Skype for Business users will have an easier time of diagnosing and fixing problems that may arise for them. Microsoft unveiled the beta of a new Call Analytics Dashboard on Monday, which is supposed to provide admins with a diagnosis of issues...

Micron's Intel Optane competitor will ship later this year

From PC World: Intel’s spanking new high-capacity Optane SSD is cool, but drives from other storage vendors based on the 3D Xpoint technology could be coming later this year.

Micron will start shipping its 3D Xpoint memory technology—branded QuantX — later this year, which will go into SSDs...

Microsoft delays tools for third-party Cortana integrations

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has delayed the release of its tools for connecting other services to the Cortana virtual assistant, a decision that could cause it to lose ground in a crowded industry.

The tech titan announced the Cortana Skills Kit in December of last year, saying at the time that it...

Apple beats Chinese company's copycat claim in Chinese court

From CNET: A Beijing court has overturned a previous ruling that Apple infringed a design patent of Chinese company Shenzhen Baili and has declared Baili's claims to be unfounded, reports the AFP.

Apple didn't have an easy time in China last year. In 2016 the Chinese government shut down Apple's...

AZIO MK MAC Review

If you have ever paid attention in a university engineering lecture, you will notice there are always interesting things going on. By "interesting", I really do not mean what the professor is talking about -- honestly, deriving equations and solving them is of little interest to most people. What I do mean are the interactions between students. A few years ago, I was in a first year C++ programming class, and I overheard one female student...

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