Nokia to buy connected-health gadgets firm

From ComputerWorld: Nokia is paying 170 million euros ($191 million) to acquire French fitness gadgets company Withings in a bid to get into the digital health market.

For the Espoo, Finland company, which sold its handset business to Microsoft two years ago, and has been since mainly in the area...

Dropbox wants to stretch desktop file storage to infinity

From InfoWorld: Dropbox has a futuristic vision for how its users will be able to share massive files and have quick access to them on their computers, without their hard drives overflowing.

The cloud storage company announced a new initiative at its Open conference in London on Tuesday called...

T-Mobile stays on a roll as new customers flock to it

From CNET: T-Mobile ended another quarter sweeping in a hefty number of subscribers -- and it logged a profit to boot.

For the first quarter of 2016, the company added a net total of 2.2 million customers, the sixth time in the past seven quarters its net additions surpassed 2 million subscribers...

Xiaomi teases new Mi Max phablet

From CNET: If size matters not for you, then Xiaomi's upcoming Mi Max phablet could be just what you're looking for. The company recently teased its new device in its MIUI fan forums, with a picture of the phablet in the pocket of a pair of jeans.

While it made no mention of the device's actual...

Google and Microsoft agree to end regulatory battles

From InfoWorld: Google and Microsoft have agreed to end their long-running regulatory battles and stop complaining to government agencies about each other.

Microsoft had been one of the leading companies calling for governments to investigate Google over potential antitrust violations in recent...

Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 Review (Page 1 of 12)

When I first built a computer, I asked Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Kwan what size of motherboard I should be going for. As this would be for my daily driver, and initially my test machine, he suggested I get a standard ATX. This would mean better options for expansion ports, while also providing more I/O such as USB ports. In addition, having the capability to SLI or CrossFire was something I was interested in, although I have yet to use more than...

G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-2400C15D-32GVR 2x16GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

Recently, I was talking to some of my friends, and we were talking about what kind of cars I would like sitting our garages -- if I was not on a poor graduate student budget, of course. Personally, I would take a 2015 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Edition 507 sedan for the fire-breathing anger and screamingly lunatic naturally aspirated V8, 2016 BMW M3 for the technical perfection in delivering speed and agility for a luxury sports compact, and the new...

A new AMD licensing deal could create more x86 rivals for Intel

From InfoWorld: Things just a lot more interesting in the x86 server market.

AMD has announced a plan to license the design of its top-of-the-line server processor to a newly formed Chinese company, creating a brand-new rival for Intel.

AMD is licensing its x86 processor and system-on-chip...

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