From InfoWorld: The blogosphere has erupted over Microsoft's newly acknowledged plans to force updates onto Windows 10 Home customers. Many say the move's long overdue. Some rail against the specter of forcibly bricked machines. Both sides have legitimate points, but three key factors need to be...
From PC World: Windows 10 will arrive July 29th, but that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone will be ready to go on day one. Case in point: A Lenovo representative told Windows Central that the company will take orders for PCs with Windows 10 preinstalled on launch day, but that those machines won’t...
From CNET: When HTC parked a truck at San Diego Comic-Con to show off its new virtual reality system, it quickly drew long lines that took curious folks the better part of an afternoon to get through.
When Jeff Gattis, head of marketing for HTC's emerging devices business, asked a user about the...
According to the US Department of Labor, if you are working in an indoor environment in the summer, the air conditioner should be set at 76F or below, with humidity between 20% and 60%. Now, for everyone else in the world that uses a real system of measurement, also known as the metric system, this will be 24.4c. Why is it important indoor workplaces are kept within this range? Well, for one thing, it is the law. But even if it was not the law, I...
From InfoWorld: Google's stock jumped more than 7 percent in the after-market hours on Thursday, after the company reported strong earnings results for the second quarter.
Total income for the period ended June 30 was $3.93 billion, up 17 percent from $3.35 billion in the second quarter of 2014...
From PC World: AMD suffered a potentially catastrophic quarter, losing $181 million as revenue fell 35 percent from a year ago. Even worse, sales in the company’s Computing and Graphics Segment fell by a whopping 54 percent, as PC makers cut purchases of AMD’s parts.
AMD’s computing and graphics...
From CNET: In the same month in which the video game industry held one of its largest conferences dedicated to upcoming titles, sales of physical games and game hardware jumped to record highs for the year.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, the marketing extravaganza dedicated to the video game...
From DailyTech: Three disgruntled users of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) mobile Android operating system must be none too happy with their lawyers, who managed to scuttle their federal class action privacy lawsuit against Google in the most bizarre of turns.
Robert DeMars of Calif., Michael Goldberg of Ohio...
From InfoWorld: It's official: Moore's Law is slowing down.
Intel gave an update on its chip-making plans Wednesday and revealed it will take longer than expected to introduce a new manufacturing process that will yield smaller, faster transistors.
Intel plans to produce its first "10-nanometer"...
From PC World: Qualcomm is under investigation by the European Union’s antitrust authority, which suspects the company of abusing its dominant position in the market for 3G and 4G chipsets used in smartphones and tablets.
The European Commission has initiated proceedings against Qualcomm in two...
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