Uber loses license to operate in London

From CNET: Transport for London, the British capital's transport regulator, refused to renew Uber's private hire license on Friday.

Uber currently holds a license to operate in the city, but it will expire on Sept. 30. TfL holds private hire regulators to high standards in order to ensure passenger...

HTC Announces $1.1BN Cash Deal With Google

From PC Mag: HTC and Google have been working together for a decade, and it's important to remember what that partnership has achieved. It gave us the very first Android smartphone called the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1), the Nexus One, the Nexus 9 tablet, and most recently the Pixel smartphone. The...

Bose adds Google Assistant to top noise-cancelling headphone

From CNET: Back in August Bose accidentally leaked shots in a newsletter of what appeared to be a new version of its top noise-cancelling headphone, the QuietComfort 35. The tip-off was an extra button on the headphones that tech sleuths speculated had something to do with a possible voice assistant...

Xbox One X Standard Edition Pre-orders Begin Today

From PC Mag: On August 25, Microsoft proclaimed that the Xbox One X was the fastest selling Xbox pre-order ever. Microsoft was referring to pre-orders of the Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition, but without mentioning how many were made available for pre-order. Today, pre-orders are open again, only...

T-Mobile boosts data throttling threshold to 50GB per month

From CNET: T-Mobile customers on the carrier's unlimited data plans will soon get to use at least 50 gigabytes of data each month before they face a possible speed reduction.

T-Mobile, the third-largest wireless player -- well behind Verizon and AT&T -- previously warned that it may reduce...

Sony Announces Call of Duty and Monster Hunter Themed PS4s

From PC Mag: The Tokyo Game Show kicks off in a couple of days, but Sony decided to hold its PlayStation press conference a couple of days before. As well as a number of game announcements and release date confirmations, Sony also revealed two new themed PS4 consoles.

As Kotaku reports, the first...

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