From PC World: The European Commission is still investigating whether Google’s Android operating system and Amazon’s contracts with ebook publishers have broken antitrust rules, its Competition Commissioner said Monday in Amsterdam.
Margrethe Vestager’s remarks come amid reports that the European...
From InfoWorld: Apple may be getting ready to rebrand its OS X operating system as MacOS, according to a since-altered page on the Cupertino, Calif. company's website.
The page, which touted Apple's environmental efforts, used "MacOS" rather than "OS X" to label the Mac's operating system. The...
From CNET: The online retailer's streaming video service is now available for the first time on its own. The company is letting fans in the US binge on Amazon original shows like "Mozart in the Jungle" and "The New Yorker Presents" for $8.99 a month.
And there are even more Prime-a-month changes...
From ComputerWorld: The CEOs of Oracle and Google met for six hours on Friday but failed to reach a deal to end their massive copyright lawsuit over Google's use of Java in Android.
"After an earlier run at settling this case failed, the court observed that some cases just need to be tried. This...
In the last ten years or so, I have personally owned four main laptops from three different manufacturers. If you ask me what my favorite one of all time is, it will have to be my current one that I bought last year. It runs Windows 10 Pro, and comes loaded with a powerful yet efficient Intel Core i5-5287U CPU, 16GB DDR3L-1866 RAM, 512GB PCIe based SSD, high resolution 2560x1600 13.3" IPS display, and about 10 hours battery life. Best of all, its...
Traveling can be a fun and new experience, depending on where you end up going to. I have traveled quite a bit with my family, but have never really gone anywhere crazy; we usually end up at standard tourist destinations. One country that has always intrigued me -- which I have never visited before -- is Russia. Whether it is this history or the people or the pictures you see on the internet, the largest country in the world has some sort of...
From ComputerWorld: Amazon is turning the e-reader into a luxury item with the new Kindle Oasis.
Starting at $280, the Kindle Oasis is Amazon’s most expensive e-reader since the Kindle DX from 2010. Amazon says its mission with the Kindle is to “make the device disappear so you can lose yourself...
From PC World: Intel wants you to know just how real and just how fast its game-changing Optane storage technology is, so it demonstrated how its new pervasive memory technology leaves a conventional NAND SSD in the dust.
The demo, the first public one using a traditional desktop environment, took...
From CNET: Microsoft is suing the US Department of Justice to try to prevent the government from forcing tech companies to turn over data without their customers' knowledge.
The software giant filed the case in federal court on Thursday with an aim to strike down a key legal mechanism used by the...
From InfoWorld: With rivals Nvidia and AMD both offering graphics processors, Intel is now deploying screaming co-processors of its own in the form of FPGAs.
FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) are extremely fast chips that can be reprogrammed to do specific tasks. Intel last year acquired...
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