From CNET: To win regulatory approval for its $49 billion bid to buy satellite TV provider DirecTV, AT&T has agreed to stricter Net neutrality rules and a promise to expand its fiber-optic-based broadband network to more customers.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said Tuesday...
From InfoWorld: IBM has reported another quarter of declining revenue and profit, though sales of its new mainframe gave it a lift.
Revenue for its second quarter was $20.8 billion, down from $24 billion a year earlier, IBM announced Monday.
The big drop is partly from IBM selling its x86 server...
From PC World: On Monday, Microsoft pushed out an emergency out-of-band update for a critical security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain complete control of your system. The flaw affects all systems from Windows Vista and up—including the Windows 10 Technical Preview.
The exploit...
From CNET: Toshiba President and CEO Hisao Tanaka has quit the company over an accounting scandal that the Japanese government says could shake the reputation of Japanese business.
Between 2008 and 2014, Toshiba over-reported profits by 151.8 billion yen (around £780 million, $1.22 billion or AU$1...
From DailyTech: The Mozilla Foundation has long played a key role in setting web standards as the maker of Firefox -- one of the world's most used browsers. While an enthusiastic early supporter of HTML5 (particularly when it came to the Ogg and Webm audio codecs), Mozilla tried to practice...
From ComputerWorld: Samsung Electronics' newest Android tablets might as well be called "the Galaxy Air" series. They are the company's thinnest and lightest yet, and could offer an attractive alternative to Apple's iPad Air 2.
The Galaxy Tab S2 will go on sale starting next month. To improve over...
From InfoWorld: The blogosphere has erupted over Microsoft's newly acknowledged plans to force updates onto Windows 10 Home customers. Many say the move's long overdue. Some rail against the specter of forcibly bricked machines. Both sides have legitimate points, but three key factors need to be...
From PC World: Windows 10 will arrive July 29th, but that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone will be ready to go on day one. Case in point: A Lenovo representative told Windows Central that the company will take orders for PCs with Windows 10 preinstalled on launch day, but that those machines won’t...
From CNET: When HTC parked a truck at San Diego Comic-Con to show off its new virtual reality system, it quickly drew long lines that took curious folks the better part of an afternoon to get through.
When Jeff Gattis, head of marketing for HTC's emerging devices business, asked a user about the...
According to the US Department of Labor, if you are working in an indoor environment in the summer, the air conditioner should be set at 76F or below, with humidity between 20% and 60%. Now, for everyone else in the world that uses a real system of measurement, also known as the metric system, this will be 24.4c. Why is it important indoor workplaces are kept within this range? Well, for one thing, it is the law. But even if it was not the law, I...
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