From PC World: Comcast plans to begin 1-gigabit service rollouts later this year, with an eye toward pushing the service nationwide in two to three years, according to a report.
The key is the deployment of DOCSIS 3.1, a cable-modem standard that Comcast will begin trialing during the fourth...
From DailyTech: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) in July announced it would be embarking on a fresh round of layoffs, which would more specifically involve the "reduction of up to 7,800 positions, primarily in the phone business."
Microsoft billed it as part of a "restructuring process", for its phone...
From InfoWorld: Dell has formed a new business unit to go after the "second tier" of hyperscale customers -- those with similar needs to those of Google and Facebook but who aren't quite as massive.
The Datacenter Scaleable Solutions group, announced Monday, will work with companies in fields like...
From PC World: Even if the tablet market is in a malaise, vendors aren’t giving up on the product category. LG Electronics will unveil the best model of its G Pad tablet series at the IFA trade show in Berlin next week.
LG’s latest tablet, the G Pad II 10.1, is more powerful and has a better screen...
From CNET: Does the camera on your iPhone 6 Plus turn out blurry photos? You may be able to get it replaced for free.
Apple said "a small percentage" of 6 Pluses have a faulty component that affects image quality and that the company will replace the iSight camera on the back of those phones at no...
From ComputerWorld: Mozilla on Friday spelled out major changes to one of Firefox's strengths -- its deep ecosystem of add-ons -- that will make it easier for developers to port Google Chrome extensions to Firefox.
In a long post on a company blog, Kev Needham, product manager for Firefox on the...
The Bible in Ecclesiastes 1 says, "'Meaningless! Meaningless!' says the Teacher. 'Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.' What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever." With the Intel Skylake motherboards and latest DDR4 RAM beginning to make an appearance in our labs here at APH Networks, I have finally come to the realization -- after a...
From ComputerWorld: Hewlett-Packard doesn't officially become two companies until Nov. 1, but the company has already separated its internal systems and is effectively operating as two businesses.
"On August 1, we successfully split the operations and IT systems for the company. This was an...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft has pre-empted a new feature Google plans to include in the next version of Android with an update released Thursday for the Bing Search app that lets users get information about what they're looking at by pressing and holding their device's home button.
Called Bing...
From PC World: Android OS developer Cyanogen is bringing its operating system to another Chinese smartphone, this time from a company founded by Lenovo.
Lenovo's new ZUK brand will use the Cyanogen OS when selling phones in the international market.
Earlier this month, ZUK announced its first...
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