From CNET: China may be the world's biggest phone market, and it may be the most dynamic.
After Xiaomi and Huawei enjoyed stints on top, Vivo and Oppo are neck-and-neck for the No. 1 spot in the country, according to Counterpoint Research. Between July and September, Oppo owned 16.6 percent of the...
From InfoWorld: It's apparently possible that a DDoS attack can be big enough to break the internet -- or, as shown in the attack against ISP Dyn, at least break large parts of it.
The DDoS attack against Dyn that began Friday went far past taking down Dyn's servers. Beyond the big-name outages...
From CNET: The number of smartwatches sold over the past three months has declined 52 percent compared to the number sold in the same July-to-September period last year, according to a report by IDC wearables analysts.
Apple is still the leading smartwatch maker, but it has also seen fewer people...
From PC World: AT&T said it will acquire Time Warner for US$85.4 billion, reflecting a continuing trend for the consolidation of communications and media companies.
The deal aims to combine content from Time Warner, which has a film studio and a vast library of entertainment, with AT&T’s...
From CNET: Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 is dead and buried, but the Note brand will live to see another phone launch.
The company has no plans to scrap the beleaguered Note moniker altogether, even though for many it is now associated with the Note 7 debacle, according to a report published Monday. Note...
"You are my favorite Lauren," I told my friend. "Do you know another Lauren?" she quickly snapped back. "Let us leave that discussion for another day," I replied as I closed off the conversation for the night. Do I know another Lauren? The fact is, I probably do. However, she is the only one I actually talk to, and saying she is my favorite Lauren is definitely not a lie. But even if she was the only Lauren I knew, is not this statement still...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft's ongoing move to the cloud paid off once again over the past quarter, as strong growth from Azure and Office 365 offset declines in the PC market.
The company announced on Thursday that its quarterly revenue for the three-month period ending in September was flat overall...
From CNET: Back in May, Nissan announced its decision to purchase a 34 percent controlling stake in Mitsubishi Motors. Only now has the deal been finalized, and with Mitsubishi now part of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, it's time to turn Mitsubishi's frowns upside down.
Nissan spent upwards of $2...
From PC World: Samsung today introduced the world's first 8GB LPDDR4 DRAM package, a memory chip with twice the capacity and twice the speed of typical DRAM used in PCs.
The new LPDDR4 (low power, double data rate 4) DRAM uses new 10-nanometer-class process technology, which gives it twice the...
From CNET: Amazon's Fire TV 2 bundles cost a tad less, thanks to an across-the-board price cut of $10.
The price cut doesn't apply to the new Fire TV Stick, but it brings the cost of the core Fire TV 2 bundle down to $90, the antenna bundle down to $100 and the gaming edition bundle down to $130...
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