SoftBank grabs chip designer ARM for $32 billion

From CNET: British chip design company ARM Holdings confirmed Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank for £24.3 billion ($32.15 billion).

ARM is not as well known as big chipmakers such as Qualcomm and Intel, but its work is behind the processors...

Reeven Four Eyes Touch RFC-03 Review

It is always nice to have some extra control over something. I have always been quite attentive on having control over things that goes on in my life; doing so just made me feel more comfortable. As much as I sound like some kind of creepy control freak, step back for a moment and think: Who does not? When I first started driving, I did not like it, simply because I did not trust other drivers on the road. I still do not, but I actually like to...

Mac shipments slump for third straight quarter

From InfoWorld: According to the two largest technology research firms, Apple sold between 4.4 million and 4.6 million Macs in the second quarter, a year-over-year decline of between 5 percent and 8 percent.

IDC and Gartner both pegged Mac global shipments in the quarter that ended June 30 at lower...

Xiaomi's next big reveal is coming on July 27

From CNET: Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has something up its sleeve, and it's likely a new budget Redmi phone, if the rumor mill is to be believed.

The company will on Monday start selling tickets to a July 27 press conference in Beijing for about 199 yuan (roughly $30, £20 and AU$40...

AWS buys Cloud9 IDE in snub to Google

From PC World: Amazon Web Services has bought Cloud9, a popular web-based developer environment that recently aligned itself with the Google Cloud Platform.

Cloud9 is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment) with a fairly rich feature set for building and deploying applications...

Microsoft touts $404 per user savings with Windows 10

From InfoWorld: Microsoft this week said enterprises and organizations could save up to $404 per employee over a three-year span by adopting Windows 10.

That claim came from a company-commissioned analysis done by Forrester Research. After interviewing four Microsoft customers which have begun...

Dish's new Voice Remote for Hopper 3 and 4K Joey is out now for $30

From CNET: Dish's Voice Remote, announced back in January at CES in Las Vegas, is now a reality.

Available to Hopper 3 and 4K Joey customers for $30, the remote allows you to navigate, search and select programming using spoken commands. You can also change channels and record shows using your...

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