From PC World: With privacy and secrecy functions a given in competing messaging systems, BlackBerry is dropping the subscription fee for users of the ‘retract’ and ‘timer’ functions of its cross-platform BBM messaging app.
As BlackBerry’s share of the smartphone market declined, it released...
From CNET: A warning to those San Franciscans who've gotten into the illegal hotel business by offering short-term rentals on more than one home: Airbnb is after you.
The home-sharing site on Saturday said it's investigating hosts in the city with multiple listings and plans to give "unwelcome...
From ComputerWorld: With its latest SSDs, Intel is paving the way for fast, standard NVMe connections in storage systems for both more and less adventurous users.
Intel is one of the biggest boosters of NVMe (non-volatile memory express), designed as a standard controller technology for PCI...
Before we begin, let me just make it clear there are no April Fools jokes in this article. Now that we have all that cleared up, let me ask you a quick question: How much does presentation affect the perception of quality? In 2007, a man spent a cold January morning playing six classical pieces for 45 minutes at the entrance to a subway station in Washington DC. During this time, thousands of people went through the station. Among all the people...
Two weeks ago, I received my Iron Ring, signaling the beginning of my career as an engineer. However, it did not really mean a whole lot to me yet, especially as I still have a month of school to go. While the ceremony itself was interesting itself, since then, I have found it hard to actually remove the ring from my hand. No, this is not like a "Lord of the Rings" ring to rule them all, especially everyone else there received a ring like mine...
From PC World: Every time Intel announces new Xeon chips, server makers waste no time in announcing new products to take advantage.
Lenovo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell have announced faster servers with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips based on the Broadwell architecture. The chips have...
From CNET: We're finally getting a clearer picture of whether people are giving BlackBerry another chance. And things don't look good.
BlackBerry said Friday that it sold 600,000 phones in its fiscal fourth quarter, well below Wall Street's expectations of 850,000 and also below the 700,000 units...
From ComputerWorld: Virtual reality is poised to change PC configurations, and Dell is packing serious horsepower into its new Precision desktops as a way for users to view and create VR content.
The desktops will be equipped with high-end graphics cards and Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips...
From PC World: Well, now we know why Microsoft’s Windows Phone didn’t appear at Microsoft’s Build keynote on Wednesday: it simply isn’t on Microsoft’s radar screen at the moment. The question, of course, is whether it will ever be again.
“We’re going to do some cool things with phones, but this...
From CNET: At its Build conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Microsoft outlined the ways in which it would speed up the development of the Web browser introduced with Windows 10 last year. High on the list is the introduction of a built-in ad blocker.
In a chart laying out future features for...
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