From CNET: China's mobile payments market is worth almost $6 trillion, and Apple wants a bite of that.
To encourage more Chinese to start using Apple Pay, the iPhone maker is offering up to 50 percent discounts off purchases at participating vendors, many of them Western brands. It's also rewarding...
A few weeks ago, in my Fnatic Gear RUSH Pro Silent review, I talked about how I had to take my GDL exit test twice to get my full driver's license. The first time I took the test, the examiner pointed out a few minor infractions in addition to the major infraction that failed me in the process, where one of them was me driving too slow. Apparently, according to her, if the speed limit was 100km/h, I have to hold to that as closely as possible. In...
So often we are reminded that appearances are not a good basis to judge something on. I have even seen a book store where they keep the books wrapped with just the title on the front for information, but as an avid reader I think that is a bit much, since I do enjoy to read the short summary on the back of the book before I commit to buying it. However, not judging things on appearance is a good philosophy, right? Unfortunately, judging on...
From CNET: The Australian government is implementing laws that'll pressure tech giants like Facebook and Google to decrypt messages for terrorist and criminal investigators, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on Friday, reports the ABC.
Investigators would ask for assistance from Apple...
From PC Mag: Things did not pick up for the PC industry in the second quarter of 2017.
According to new data from Gartner, PC vendors shipped 61.1 million units worldwide in the second quarter of 2017, a 4.3 percent decline from a year earlier. That marked the 11th straight quarter of declining...
From The Verge: Sony’s latest 4K, HDR-equipped TVs, those powered by Google’s Android TV software, will soon be compatible with some Amazon Echo devices, Sony announced today. The feature should roll out as part of a firmware update sometime this month, and it will give users of the Amazon Echo and...
From CNET: It looks like LG is readying itself to reveal its next big phone. The company sent out save-the-dates for August 31 in Berlin, with an image that outlines a sleek and glowing letter V.
This would be a not-so-subtle nod to LG's series of premium V-series phones; the new phone is expected...
From PC World: AMD has revealed the prices for some of its Threadripper CPUs, using the same effective strategy that it executed for its mainstream Ryzen chips: set eye-popping discounts compared to Intel’s own Core i9 family, and probably earlier release dates, too.
On Thursday, AMD disclosed the...
From The Verge: The owner of British luxury phone maker Vertu has failed to rescue the company from bankruptcy after offering to pay creditors just £1.9 million ($2.4 million) of the firm’s £128 million debt. The result of this — according to reports from The Financial Times and The Telegraph — is...
From CNET: Google won a major victory in one of its many court battles when a Paris court dismissed a €1.11 billion ($1.27 billion) tax bill levied against the tech giant.
Paris' administrative tribunal ruled Wednesday that Google's advertising business doesn't have a taxable presence in France...
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