From CNET: British chip design company ARM Holdings confirmed Monday that it has agreed to be acquired by Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank for £24.3 billion ($32.15 billion).
ARM is not as well known as big chipmakers such as Qualcomm and Intel, but its work is behind the processors...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft's latest version of Window10, codename Redstone 1, version 1607, build 14390.0.rs1_release.160712-1452 was introduced with a suitably understated announcement on Friday by Insider spokesperson Dona Sarkar, who emphasized that it's not the RTM build.
The lists of...
From CNET: A little over a year ago, with much fanfare, Microsoft executives drew a line in the sand, predicting that Windows 10 would be installed on 1 billion devices by mid-2018.
Today, Microsoft officials are conceding that they likely won't make that deadline.
I asked Microsoft for further...
It is always nice to have some extra control over something. I have always been quite attentive on having control over things that goes on in my life; doing so just made me feel more comfortable. As much as I sound like some kind of creepy control freak, step back for a moment and think: Who does not? When I first started driving, I did not like it, simply because I did not trust other drivers on the road. I still do not, but I actually like to...
From InfoWorld: According to the two largest technology research firms, Apple sold between 4.4 million and 4.6 million Macs in the second quarter, a year-over-year decline of between 5 percent and 8 percent.
IDC and Gartner both pegged Mac global shipments in the quarter that ended June 30 at lower...
From CNET: Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi has something up its sleeve, and it's likely a new budget Redmi phone, if the rumor mill is to be believed.
The company will on Monday start selling tickets to a July 27 press conference in Beijing for about 199 yuan (roughly $30, £20 and AU$40...
From PC World: Amazon Web Services has bought Cloud9, a popular web-based developer environment that recently aligned itself with the Google Cloud Platform.
Cloud9 is a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment) with a fairly rich feature set for building and deploying applications...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft this week said enterprises and organizations could save up to $404 per employee over a three-year span by adopting Windows 10.
That claim came from a company-commissioned analysis done by Forrester Research. After interviewing four Microsoft customers which have begun...
From CNET: Dish's Voice Remote, announced back in January at CES in Las Vegas, is now a reality.
Available to Hopper 3 and 4K Joey customers for $30, the remote allows you to navigate, search and select programming using spoken commands. You can also change channels and record shows using your...
From PC World: The European Commission has added new antitrust charges against Google in the areas of search and advertising as it continues to investigate into the Internet search giant.
On Thursday, the EC charged Google in a “statement of objections” that it has placed restrictions on the...
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