After beating Uber in China, Didi Chuxing wants to go global

From CNET: Didi Chuxing took on Uber in China and won. Now the Chinese ride-hailing goliath expects to do the same around the world, even without home field advantage.

"We believe the expertise we built in China can benefit another market," Jean Liu, Didi Chuxing's president, said Tuesday at the...

Google Fiber puts expansion plans on hold to review strategy

From PC World: Google Fiber has paused plans to roll out fiber optic cables across a number of U.S. cities, as the company reevaluates its strategy to presumably use mainly wireless to provide high-speed Internet service.

Work on Google Fiber is to continue in in the cities where it has been...

Amazon rolls out Alexa on its Fire tablets

From CNET: When Amazon released its new Fire HD 8 tablet last month, it promised that Alexa, the cloud-based voice service, would be added to Fire tablets in the coming weeks through a free over-the-air software update. Well, that update is now available to owners of the 2016 Fire HD 8, as well as...

Apple issues significant updates for iOS, macOS

From InfoWorld: Apple on Monday released the first significant updates for both iOS and macOS.

iOS 10.1 includes a host of enhancements and bug fixes, but the signature addition is Portrait Camera, a feature previously touted by Apple for the iPhone 7 Plus only.

Using the dual cameras of the...

​Intel has a new chip to bring brains to your car

From CNET: Intel probably already supplies the brains for your PC. Now it wants to do the same for your next car with new members of its Atom processor family.

That auto could have a giant screen instead of analog gauges, digital displays instead of rearview mirrors and cameras to detect...

Oppo and Vivo beat Huawei and Xiaomi to claim top spots in China

From CNET: China may be the world's biggest phone market, and it may be the most dynamic.

After Xiaomi and Huawei enjoyed stints on top, Vivo and Oppo are neck-and-neck for the No. 1 spot in the country, according to Counterpoint Research. Between July and September, Oppo owned 16.6 percent of the...

Dyn DDoS attack exposes soft underbelly of the cloud

From InfoWorld: It's apparently possible that a DDoS attack can be big enough to break the internet -- or, as shown in the attack against ISP Dyn, at least break large parts of it.

The DDoS attack against Dyn that began Friday went far past taking down Dyn's servers. Beyond the big-name outages...

Apple Watch still ahead as smartwatch sales decline

From CNET: The number of smartwatches sold over the past three months has declined 52 percent compared to the number sold in the same July-to-September period last year, according to a report by IDC wearables analysts.

Apple is still the leading smartwatch maker, but it has also seen fewer people...

AT&T will acquire Time Warner for $85.4B in content play

From PC World: AT&T said it will acquire Time Warner for US$85.4 billion, reflecting a continuing trend for the consolidation of communications and media companies.

The deal aims to combine content from Time Warner, which has a film studio and a vast library of entertainment, with AT&T’s...

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