From PC World: Is the Candy Crush Saga really worth more than the Star Wars saga? Activision Blizzard recently announced it would acquire King Digital Entertainment, makers of Candy Crush, for $5.9 billion.
That price is more than double the $2.5 billion that Microsoft paid to buy Mojang, creators...
From CNET: Exactly one year ago on his first earnings conference call with investors, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure said he would take the ailing wireless carrier on a "transformational journey."
Claure, who took over in August 2014, promised to "take bold actions" to win back customers burned by years...
From DailyTech: For years Canadian phonemaker Research in Motion -- later renamed as BlackBerry, Ltd. (TSE:BB) fought the good fight in the smartphone space. Once the hottest player with an over 50 percent share of smartphone sales in the world's most valuable market (the U.S.), the business minded...
From InfoWorld: Chrome last month reached another major milestone in user share as Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox again shed fans at ruinous rates.
Meanwhile, use of Microsoft's Edge, the intended replacement for IE, continued to sink among those running Windows 10.
The latest data published...
From PC World: It’s the end of an era. Catalyst Control Center, Radeon’s software hub since the ol’ ATI days, is finally being laid to rest by AMD’s newly founded Radeon Technologies Group.
But don’t shed tears over the loss! Catalyst’s been ho-hum, drab, and overly complicated for years now...
From CNET: Photo-messaging app Snapchat has reassured users that their photos will not be stored on its servers after changes to its privacy policy caused widespread confusion.
The Venice, California-based company published a blog post on Sunday clarifying changes that were made to its Privacy...
From ComputerWorld: Three months after its launch, Windows 10 now powers an estimated 132 million PCs, according to data published Sunday by an analytics vendor.
Numbers released today by U.S. metrics company Net Applications showed that Windows 10's user share -- a proxy for the portion of all...
It usually does not make a whole lot of news around the world when Canada elects a new prime minister. There are probably a number of reasons why, but in my opinion, it is mainly because a change of guard in this country does not affect the world stage nearly as much as, say, having a new President of the United States. However, when Justin Trudeau was elected as the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada last week, more international news was made than...
In the summer I went to a lab to get blood work done for my annual checkup. As this was the first time I ever did any kinds of these tests, I made a number of rookie mistakes. I was told if I went in early, I would be able to get out quickly. However, if I did not, I was told to book an appointment. Unfortunately, I ignored both advice, and went right after work without booking an appointment. This left me waited at the Calgary Lab Services for...
There are many words that can make a person feel uncomfortable. Many of those would be so-called bad words, or it can simply be words that remind you of certain bad experiences you have had in the past. Personally, when I hear the word "lite", I get a little uneasy. This is especially applicable when the word is slotted into the back of a product's name, and is something I expect to use in the long run. In my younger days, when I pursued a career...
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