The lost year of Beats Music and how that may not matter for Apple

From CNET: Twelve years ago, with the launch of the iTunes music store, Apple changed how we purchase and listen to music. Now it hopes to shake things up again -- despite playing catchup this time around.

Apple is expected to debut a subscription streaming-music service, making it one of the...

Cisco acquires OpenStack pioneer Piston Cloud

From InfoWorld: Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.

Terms were not disclosed.

Piston Cloud was founded by Josh McKenty, the lead architect of NASA's cloud platform, which spun off into the open...

Acer shifts to IoT with enterprise focus

From PC World: Acer is still producing PCs, but the Taiwanese vendor is far more bullish about the Internet of Things (IoT), a market the company doesn’t want to miss out on.

On Thursday, the Taiwanese vendor held a news conference not for a new consumer product, but to promote an upcoming...

Apple Watch to hit retail stores, expand to more countries in June

From CNET: Customers around the world will have more ways to get their hands -- or wrists -- on Apple Watch in the coming weeks.

Apple Watch will be available in Apple's brick-and-mortar retail stores in two weeks, the company announced on Thursday, ending months of speculation on when it'll...

Apple recalls Beats Pill XL speakers on risk of overheating

From CNET: Consumers who purchased Beats Pill XL speakers from Apple are being asked to stop using them due to a potential fire hazard.

On Wednesday, Apple announced a voluntary recall of the speakers, complete with refunds to customers who bought them. The company said it determined that in rare...

AMD to launch next-generation Fiji GPUs on June 16

From ComputerWorld: Gamers, buckle up: AMD will launch its highly anticipated graphics processing unit, code-named Fiji, on June 16 at the E3 conference.

Many were expecting Fiji to launch at a press event at Computex on Wednesday, but that didn't happen. Instead, AMD show off its key technology...

Firefox Developer Browser offers peek at app performance

From InfoWorld: With version 40 of the Firefox Developer Edition browser, Mozilla is adding performance tools to give developers a better understanding of what's happening in apps from a performance standpoint.

The new upgrades profile the performance of websites, apps, or games. "All performance...

Asus mini-PCs pack Skylake chips, 4K video capabilities

From PC World: There is a lot to look forward to in Skylake PCs, if mini-PCs from Asus showed on the Computex show floor are an indicator.

Lying in one corner of the Asus booth were two mini-desktops based on Intel’s upcoming sixth-generation Core processor. With the powerful processors, a host of...

AMD takes aim at the notebook market with new 12-core processors

From CNET: Announced Wednesday at Computex, AMD's latest A-Series processors will come in 3 flavors and are designed for serious online streaming and gaming. The 3 variants come packing discrete graphics cores in the form of a Radeon R6 or R7 for better visual performance, and the chips in range...

Intel cranks up speed of Thunderbolt 3, builds in support for USB

From InfoWorld: Intel is giving Apple and other laptop makers a reason to put its Thunderbolt high-speed data ports back in their next ultrathin laptops: Thunderbolt 3.0 ports will use the same Type C connector as USB 3.1 -- but when connected to other Thunderbolt devices, will run up to four times...

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