Microsoft teases Lumia smartphone announcements for September 4

From PC World: Microsoft’s upcoming Lumia phone, codenamed Superman, could arrive in early September. The Windows Phone maker recently sent out press invites for an event on Thursday, September 4 in Berlin, Germany with the tag line “Ready for more? Join us for more face time.”

Microsoft’s event is...

EA Access Subscription Gaming Service Now Open to All Xbox One Users

From DailyTech: Microsoft and Electronic Arts definitely think they are giving Xbox One gamers a deal with the new EA Access subscription service. For $4.99 per month or $29.99 per year, gamers receive unlimited access to a few older EA gaming titles - FIFA 14, Madden NFL 25, Peggle 2, and...

Microsoft slashes IE support, sets 'huge' edict for Jan. 2016

From InfoWorld: Hard on the heels of a decision to step up the frequency of Windows updates, Microsoft on Thursday announced it would give customers 17 months to stop using older versions of Internet Explorer (IE), including the most popular of them all, IE8.

The decision will further complicate...

LG cuts price of OLED TV entry to $3500

From CNET: While still exorbitantly expensive, prices on LG's OLED TVs are falling fast.

LG has announced its second-generation OLED TV, the 55EC9300, will be on sale at Best Buy August 24th for $3,500. It's available for pre-order now at BestBuy.com.

That just $1000 more than the highest-end 55...

LG G3 Finally Launches in China But Will be Sold Online Only

From DailyTech: On Monday South Korea's LG Electronics, Inc. will bring its well reviewed international Android flagship device, the LG G3, to China. The device will retail for CN¥ (yuan) 3,999 (~$650 USD), around the same price as Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s Galaxy S5 and Apple, Inc.'s...

Kingston HyperX Fury HX318C10FK2/16 2x8GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

If you ask me about the word fury, a few things come to mind. First is Colonel Nicholas Joseph Fury, better known as Nick Fury, the former director of the Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division, or S.H.I.E.L.D. for short. Of course, most of you probably just think he is still the director, but in fact this is not so, and I will let Marvel tell you the actual details of what happened. Anyways, when I think of Nick...

SoftBank profit slides amid fewer new subscribers

From PC World: Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank saw its profit dwindle dramatically in the April to June quarter as customer growth slowed.

Japan’s third-biggest mobile phone company logged a net profit of ¥77.57 billion (US$759 million) for the quarter, down 68 percent from ¥244 billion a year...

Twitter's Bing translation tool exits as quietly as it entered

From CNET: The Bing translation feature in Twitter that quietly made an appearance two months ago has suddenly gone away, according to many users.

The feature, which showed up earlier this year, allowed Twitter users to quickly translate posts that were in another language. At the time, it was...

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