In early October, a few of my friends, including Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Kwan took a road trip up to our neighboring city of Edmonton, Alberta. While Calgary and Edmonton does have a bit of a rivalry, there are good and bad aspects of each city (But obviously Calgary has a much higher pro-to-con ratio in comparison to Edmonton). During our visit to the capital of Alberta, we went to West Edmonton Mall, and found a store sign that read "New fit...
From PC World: With AMD's processors still stuck on an aging 28nm manufacturing process, it needs some innovation to catch up to Intel—and the company thinks it has the elements to do so with "Carrizo," a high-end integrated chip that the company will debut in 2015.
AMD said that Carrizo and a...
From CNET: LG Display, the world's largest LCD panel maker, clinched the title of world's largest UHD TV panel vendor last month for the first time in 22 months, a research report released Thursday showed.
According to DisplaySearch's TFT-LCD shipment report, LG sold 578,000 UHD TV panels...
From DailyTech: Xiaomi has big aspirations when it comes to smartphone sales. Xiaomi has already put a hurtin’ on Samsung, surpassing the South Korean electronics giant (and even Lenovo) in Chinese market smartphone shipments during Q2. In addition, pricing pressure from both Xiaomi and Huawei was...
From PC World: Qualcomm wants to enter the server market, but it won’t do it alone, and will tap expertise in China to build the low-power chips.
“We’re going to work with Chinese companies to bring that technology and in fact co-develop that technology with Chinese companies,” said Qualcomm...
From CNET: The streaming-video service remains, by far, the biggest source of downstream Internet traffic during peak evening viewing hours in North America. But jostling in the lower ranks are Amazon Instant Video, HBO Go and even Facebook, suggesting changes in where we watch online video and the...
From DailyTech: Apple, Inc. (AAPL) today let many a metaphorical cat out of the metaphorical bag with its introduction of the Apple Watch software development kit (SDK), a collection of APIs used to program for the device. It calls the new SDK the "Apple Watchkit" and it hopes the early release...
From InfoWorld: With Tuesday's release of Flow, an open source static type checker, Facebook engineers are continuing their recent efforts to seed the community at large with tools built in-house.
"Flow adds static typing to JavaScript to improve developer productivity and code quality," Facebook...
From PC World: In the next few weeks, Google will start to label websites that render well on mobile devices and is considering giving that label weight as a search rank signal, the company said Tuesday.
Websites can earn a ”mobile-friendly” badge that is displayed with search results if the site...
From CNET: Finnish smartphone manufacturer Jolla has successfully taken to crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to seek funding for its new Jolla Tablet. The campaign hit its $380,000 goal in just over two hours of going live. Although the first batch of the 7.9-inch tablets have sold out at a price of...
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