Apple reveals drop in sales of iTunes music

From CNET: iTunes music sales took dip over the past 12 months, according to Apple's latest regulatory filing.

In an 88-page annual report, filed Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple said the iTunes Store overall raked in more revenue in fiscal year 2014 -- which ended...

Azure, Office 365 drive Microsoft revenues, while mobile lags

From InfoWorld: Microsoft had a lot to brag about when it announced its first-quarter 2015 financials yesterday. The company boasted of higher gross margins and revenue, big gains in hardware and cloud sales, and -- most important -- a success story in its ongoing reinvention as a cloud services...

Amazon takes on Chromecast with Fire TV Stick

From CNET: It's smaller than a crowbar, but Amazon surely wants its new streaming stick to pry users away from Google's Chromecast.

Dubbed the Fire TV Stick, the streaming-media device connects to an HDMI port on the back on an HDTV and streams from sources including Netflix to Hulu Plus to, of...

Microsoft’s Xbox One Gets a Temporary Price Cut to $349

From DailyTech: When the Xbox One was first released, it came with the Kinect 2 camera and was priced at $499. Earlier this year, Microsoft ditched the Kinect 2 camera and dropped the price of the console to $399.

Now, Microsoft is offering up a temporary price cut on the Xbox One just in top for...

Thecus N2310 Review (Page 1 of 8)

What is the difference between being cheap, and being smart with your money? Being cheap is like asking a girl to go on a date, only to take her to IKEA for breakfast, Costco for lunch, and not worry about dinner, because you are not going to get it. Being smart with your money is like going to the dealership to buy a nice car, but only pay as close to invoice price as market conditions will allow. In both cases, saving money is the end goal, but...

LG wades into processor development with G3 Screen

From PC World: LG Electronics is getting into smartphone processor development with an octa-core chip that features in its G3 Screen smartphone, which went on sale Friday in South Korea.

The Nuclun mobile application processor uses ARM’s big.Little design for multitasking, with four 1.5GHz cores...

Microsoft Q1 profit falls 13 percent, weighed down by Nokia unit

From CNET: Microsoft is still very much a company in transition. While it continues to incur losses in an attempt to succeed in the mobile device market, Microsoft's cloud services, software and Surface tablet divisions continue to grow.

Microsoft on Thursday posted fiscal first-quarter earnings...

Dreadful Fire Phone Sales Lead to $170M Writedown for Amazon

From DailyTech: Amazon continues its trend of huge quarterly losses as it builds out its infrastructure and signs new licensing agreements for services like Amazon Instant Video. For Q3, Amazon recorded a net loss of a $437 billion compared to just $41 million for the same period a year ago.

As...

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