Seagate unveils massive 10TB hard drives to meet all storage needs

From CNET: If you're looking to greatly increase the storage capacity of your desktop computer, NAS server or surveillance recorder, Seagate's got you covered.

The company today announced not one but three new 10TB hard drives: the Barracuda Pro, the IronWolf and SkyHawk. These drives belong to an...

HP's Elite X3 will give Windows 10 a new flagship phone later this month

From PC World: Not many are using smartphones with Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile, but HP’s flagship Elite X3—which ships this month—could boost the OS’s sagging fortunes.

The premium smartphone will be priced starting at $699 in the U.S. It feels more like a phablet, but HP believes it could also...

SoftBank grabs chip designer ARM for $32 billion

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...

New Windows 10 beta, build 14390, brings us close to the finish line

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...

Reeven Four Eyes Touch RFC-03 Review

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...

Mac shipments slump for third straight quarter

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...

Xiaomi's next big reveal is coming on July 27

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...

AWS buys Cloud9 IDE in snub to Google

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...

Microsoft touts $404 per user savings with Windows 10

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...

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