From DailyTech: Despite website glitches that hindered customers’ ability to pre-order the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus on September 12, and a tight supplies of the iPhone 6 Plus, Apple is reporting that it has set another record for opening weekend iPhone sales.
Apple managed to top 10 million...
Is there always a link between technical perfection, emotional desirability, and the choices we make in real life? As I have first proposed the concept of practical consideration versus emotional desirability in the SilverStone Strider Essential Gold ST70F-ESG 700W report in May of this year, and further explored in my often quoted Western Digital Red WD40EFRX 4TB review that came a month later, I would just like to propose a thematically similar...
If you take a look at your family, you will find you look quite a bit like your fellow kin. Now, for those who have studied basic biology or anything related to the subject will know genetics plays a role in the features we have. Thus if two people are born from the same parents, they will share similar features. From eye and hair color, to attached and detached ear lobes, genetics affect how you and your descendants will look like. For example...
From PC World: Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang loves a spectacle. So while you’re reading this sentence, the GPU-manufacturer’s founder is regaling thousands of gamers at a 24-hour gaming event the company is sponsoring in Los Angeles with the announcement of Nvidia’s latest graphics processor, code-named...
From CNET: In round two of its previously announced planned layoff of 18,000, Microsoft is cutting another 2,100 people on September 18.
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the 2,100 figure, noting that 747 of those laid off will be in Washington state. The remaining cuts will be at other Microsoft...
From DailyTech: Earlier this month, Samsung announced two new phablet devices to an eager audience: the Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Note Edge. Unfortunately, although Samsung provided us with a ton of images and specs for the new smartphones, the South Korean company didn’t mention a peep about...
From InfoWorld: Cisco this week said it will acquire privately held Metacloud, an operator of private OpenStack clouds for global enterprises.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Metacloud offers an OpenStack-as-a-Service that remotely operates private clouds in a customer’s data center...
From PC World: In another sign of the decline of the PC, Toshiba is cutting its PC workforce by about 900 people and sales bases by more than half.
The manufacturer said Thursday it will step up restructuring of its struggling consumer PC operations to focus on sales to business clients.
Toshiba...
From CNET: Amazon has beaten Google in a bid to acquire the .buy top-level domain.
ICANN, the international Internet regulator, has awarded (PDF) Amazon the .buy domain after the company successfully outbid three other competitors in an auction. Amazon paid $4.6 million in an auction that ended on...
From DailyTech: Amazon has been busy on the mobile front, following the disappointing launch of the Fire Phone. The Fire Phone has been an absolute dud on the market, with AT&T (the exclusive carrier for the Fire Phone) already dropping the price of the entry-level model to 99 cents on contract....
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