From DailyTech: It's been three years since Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) first launched its Instant Video service for Prime subscribers. Now it's rumored to be preparing to decouple the service from Prime, allowing it to stand on its own, supported by ads.
While these reports remain the stuff of rumors...
From InfoWorld: Like many cloud services, IBM's Bluemix PaaS has nominally been a multitenanted system -- a boon for sharing resources, but not so great if you worry about performance or security issues. The newest version of Bluemix, though, aims to win over those who want their cloud to be their...
From PC World: Symantec researchers have identified a particularly sophisticated piece of malware, called “Regin” that was likely developed by a nation state and has been used to spy on governments, infrastructure operators, businesses, researchers and individuals since at least 2008.
“Regin...
From CNET: The European Parliament is getting ready to call for a breakup of Google, according to a report (subscription) Friday by the Financial Times.
A draft motion cited by the FT suggests the separation, or "unbundling," of the Internet giant's search engine from its other services, as one way...
From DailyTech: To say that Samsung’s mobile division has been hurting lately would be putting it lightly. In the company’s most recent earnings report, the company’s mobile division reported a 74 percent drop in profit from $5.7 billion to $1.65 billion.
Now, according to a new report from The...
I woke up early in the morning one Friday morning in late September. As leaves on the tree began to fall, and the ground is decorated by a new found blanket of yellow scatter, young kids are making their way to school to embark on a new year of challenges. What lies ahead of them is uncertain; what is certain is as surely as the sun rises from the east, the bell to indicate the beginning of class is about to ring. I started my car, and stopped...
In early October, a few of my friends, including Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Kwan took a road trip up to our neighboring city of Edmonton, Alberta. While Calgary and Edmonton does have a bit of a rivalry, there are good and bad aspects of each city (But obviously Calgary has a much higher pro-to-con ratio in comparison to Edmonton). During our visit to the capital of Alberta, we went to West Edmonton Mall, and found a store sign that read "New fit...
From PC World: With AMD's processors still stuck on an aging 28nm manufacturing process, it needs some innovation to catch up to Intel—and the company thinks it has the elements to do so with "Carrizo," a high-end integrated chip that the company will debut in 2015.
AMD said that Carrizo and a...
From CNET: LG Display, the world's largest LCD panel maker, clinched the title of world's largest UHD TV panel vendor last month for the first time in 22 months, a research report released Thursday showed.
According to DisplaySearch's TFT-LCD shipment report, LG sold 578,000 UHD TV panels...
From DailyTech: Xiaomi has big aspirations when it comes to smartphone sales. Xiaomi has already put a hurtin’ on Samsung, surpassing the South Korean electronics giant (and even Lenovo) in Chinese market smartphone shipments during Q2. In addition, pricing pressure from both Xiaomi and Huawei was...
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