From CNET: Twitch, which Amazon is purchasing for nearly $1 billion, isn't saying much about how it will incorporate its new owner's services into its own, but one thing is for sure: Twitch is not morphing into a retail service.
"It would destroy what Twitch is," Twitch CEO Emmett Shear said at the...
From DailyTech: Back in mid-July, Microsoft told us all that it would be taking the fight directly to Chromebooks running Google's Chrome OS with the help of a new $199 from Hewlett-Packard. At the time, Microsoft said that the $199 HP Stream would prevail over Chromebooks by offering rock bottom...
From PC World: Fortifying its SoftLayer cloud services for enterprise use, IBM has started using Intel’s chip-based Trusted Execution Technology to help organizations in highly regulated industries meet their auditing and security compliance requirements.
On Monday, IBM started offering bare-metal...
From CNET: MSN is having a make-over, and it's coming to a phone and tablet near you too. Microsoft is rebranding the Bing apps under the MSN and bringing them to Windows, Android, and iOS devices.
MSN, short for Microsoft Network, began in 1995 as an online service for Windows 95. Over the past...
From DailyTech: Remember the Roamio lineup that TiVo introduced last year, which could record up to 450 hours of HD programming? That’s merely child’s play compared to what TiVo is introducing today. If you have $5,000 to spare, and room for what basically amounts to a server rack, TiVo’s new Mega...
What do teenage girls do together when they hang out? While I am neither teenage (anymore) nor a girl (born this way), chances are they like to gossip about their friends, talk about what shampoo they use, go shopping, and most importantly of all, take selfies. Up until two months ago, I have had a hard time understanding the point of the last item on the list. It was absolutely mind blowing how, with everything against tradition, the...
From PC World: If you finally jumped on the 4K display bandwagon now that prices for the pixel-packed monitors have started to reach merely expensive, rather than outright obscene levels, have I got news for you: Your purchase is already obsolete!
Dell announced its aptly named Dell UltraSharp 27...
From CNET: Despite competitors like LG and Samsung announcing smartphones with 2K ("quad HD") displays (2,560x1,440 pixels), Sony is sticking to its guns with its flagship Xperia Z3, which has just a full HD display (1,920x1,0800 pixels).
Calum MacDougall, Sony's director of Xperia marketing, said...
From DailyTech: If you're sick of hearing about selfies, or you're a celebrity with a penchant for risqué "private" photography, this may come as bad news for you -- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has become the latest phonemaker to offer up a "selfie phone". The announcement came on Thursday at the IFA...
From GreenBot: A little more than six months after HTC revealed the 5.5-inch Desire 816, the company is following up with its successor, the Desire 820. The new phone announced at IFA Berlin on Thursday is notable for its future-proof double-quad-core 64-bit processor and insane, selfie-ready 8...
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