From ComputerWorld: Sprint will likely cut its 31,000-person workforce as part of up to $2.5 billion in cost reductions in the next six months, a company spokesman said Friday.
"It's likely some jobs will be impacted by this [cost-cutting] process, but it's premature to talk about details," said...
In the middle of last week, I had a chance to meet the Leader of the Official Opposition in Alberta, Brian Jean from the Wildrose Party. "I heard you are pretty important," I joked as I began the conversation. "No, I am not, really," he replied in a genuine tone and a warm smile. Later on, I started a conversation with a guy who introduced himself as "Derek". It was not until I got home that night that I realized he was actually Derek Fildebrandt...
From ComputerWorld: Samsung Electronics has denied allegations that it designed its TVs to consume less energy during tests than they do in real-world situations.
The allegations, in a report by The Guardian, center on a feature Samsung calls "motion lighting," which it introduced to its TVs in...
From InfoWorld: While Amazon Web Services made a name for itself by providing raw computing power and data storage at rock-bottom prices, the company has been moving toward providing services that do more of the heavy lifting for developers and administrators in exchange for a higher price.
Amazon...
From PC World: As part of its shock-and-awe of commercial Elite PC announcements this week, HP showed off new Skylake mini PCs with some fairly unique features
Aimed at business and corporate users, the tiny EliteDesk Mini PC can still run up to a full 65-watt, quad-core Skylake CPU. HP's not...
From CNET: Hackers stole the personal data of 15 million T-Mobile customers by going after the company that processes the wireless carrier's credit checks.
The company, Experian, said Thursday that it experienced a breach that nabbed customer data from September 1, 2013, to September 16, 2015. The...
From ComputerWorld: Microsoft has been pursuing a more collaborative approach under CEO Satya Nadella, working with longtime rivals like Salesforce, VMware and Apple. There hasn't been much love between Microsoft and Google, but an announcement Wednesday may signal an easing of those tensions...
From PC World: Dell's new Precision 15 5000 corporate laptop takes an important cue from its cousin, the XPS 13. Arguably the best consumer laptop of the year, the XPS 13 crammed a 13-inch screen into a laptop no bigger than ones that packed 11-inch panels.
Dell does the same trick with its new...
From InfoWorld: Remember all those rumors about the Cityman and Talkman phones, also known as the Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL? Well, Microsoft's first Windows 10 Lumias are all but real and confirmed, having accidentally appeared U.K. version of the Microsoft Store. Oops.
The two new...
From CNET: Windows 10 continued to grab a larger audience in September, though it seems to have lost some steam.
The latest version of Windows snagged a 6.6 percent cut of all Web traffic generated by desktop operating systems last month, according to NetMarketShare, less than 1.5 points higher...
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