From ComputerWorld: Amazon appears to be putting its Fire phone to bed for good. The product page for the smartphone on Amazon's website shows both the 32GB and 64GB models out of stock, with no estimate about when they'll be available again.
According to Amazon spokeswoman Michelle Taylerson, the...
From InfoWorld: Verizon will soon begin lab tests of elements that might go into 5G, the next generation of cellular technology, and plans to start field trials next year.
A 5G standard is not expected until 2020, but mobile operators in some countries, including Japan and South Korea, have...
From PC World: WhatsApp, the widely used messaging program, has fixed a dangerous flaw in its Web app that could be used to trick people into installing malware, according to Check Point.
The flaw could affect as many as 200 million people who use WhatsApp's web interface, wrote Oded Vanunu, Check...
From CNET: Apple's online store is closed for business right now. But don't worry, it's not a glitch. That's Apple's standard process as it gets ready to unveil new products.
Apple shut down its online store early Wednesday morning in advance of its latest press event scheduled for 10 a.m. PT...
From ComputerWorld: Fujitsu is developing technology that doubles the capacity of individual cells in cellular networks through task-sharing and efficient scheduling.
The approach effectively allows for transmission and reception of radio signals on the same frequency. The company sees it as a...
From InfoWorld: Mozilla last week said an unknown attacker accessed its Bugzilla bug-and-change tracking database, stole information about 53 critical security vulnerabilities, and used at least one of those flaws to attack Firefox users.
Bugzilla is the open-source tracker that Mozilla's...
From PC World: A year after it was first announced, the Raspberry Pi touch display finally launched on Tuesday. The new component means Raspberry Pi hackers can now experiment with an officially sanctioned 7-inch, 800-by-480, 10-point multi-touch LCD display for their Pi projects.
The $60...
From CNET: Verizon plans to launch a free mobile video service Go90 on Tuesday, by specifically inviting the young people it's targeting in a bid to build a new business appealing to them.
Go90 is free, supported by ads rather than paid subscriptions. It will play a mixture of traditional TV, live...
In March 2014, three weeks before I was supposed to receive my Iron Ring, I received an email from the undergraduate office at the university. "It appears that you are missing one tech elective," the program coordinator explained. "Being deficient in a tech elective will make you ineligible for both the Iron Ring ceremony and graduation in June. In light of this, I will have to remove your name from the Iron Ring list." At that point, my heart...
From ComputerWorld: IBM's Internet of Things platform can now work with IoT processors designed by ARM, thanks to a new partnership between the two companies.
"People can use ARM chipsets to build IoT applications and analytics in an easy, productive way, without worrying about how to glue things...
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