If you have been in the computer scene long enough, you will probably recall when the AMD Athlon 64 was the envy of all gamers and enthusiasts. In the times long before Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat became mainstream, we used to tread computer forums (To be fair, I still do here at APH Networks) and discuss recommendations with the community for our next PC builds. One of the interesting things back then was memory bandwidth actually made a...
As an electrical engineering student, normally I am not interested in digging up the background story of a company, nor do I really want to spend time on it. However, as an APH Networks reviewer, I should at least be knowledgeable about the history of some well-known companies that make great products. Knowing some history is helpful in terms of reviewing a product. For example, we all know Microsoft is a company famous for its Windows family. As...
From PC Mag: Qualcomm's legal spat with Apple is growing nastier; the chip giant now claims Apple tried to give rival Intel a sneak peek into Qualcomm's trade secrets.
In a Wednesday lawsuit, Qualcomm says a software license agreement the two companies signed in 2010 gave Apple access to Qualcomm's...
From The Verge: T-Mobile and Sprint aren’t calling it quits on their potential merger yet despite recent disagreements over which side would have control over the combined company. The Wall Street Journal reports that T-Mobile US has restarted talks by presenting Sprint with a revised offer, and it...
From CNET: Amazon is shutting down its Fresh grocery delivery service for some people in the US.
According to emails sent to customers in parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (seen by Reuters), AmazonFresh deliveries will stop after 30 Nov. There are also posts on Twitter that suggest services will...
From PC Mag: As far as Sony is concerned, we all game using either a 1080p or 4K display. But there is another fairly common resolution used by monitors, and in particular gaming-focused monitors. It's 2560-by-1440, or 1440p. Microsoft decided to include native support for 1440p on the Xbox One X...
From The Verge: The HTC U11 has been one of the best flagship Android phones of 2017, and now it has been upgraded and enhanced as a new U11 Plus model, freshly announced by HTC today. What are the big differences? The display is the most obvious one, moving from 5.5 inches up to 6 inches, though...
From PC World: Microsoft hopes to take a dedicated AI chip that it’s building into the next generation of its HoloLens augmented-reality headset and push it into other hardware, presumably PCs and devices built by other countries.
Speaking to CNBC, Microsoft’s device chief Panos Panay said the...
From CNET: Rumors about the new OnePlus 5T have reached the tipping point: OnePlus has all but confirmed the phone's existence in a massive tease... of teas.
Before we get to that, some background. Since the most recent device, the OnePlus 5, became unavailable on the company's website a few weeks...
From PC Mag: Google's "Fast Pair" Bluetooth feature—which debuted on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL and offers a quicker way to help you pair Bluetooth devices—is now rolling out to devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above.
"Ease of use, speed and security are the design principles driving the...
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