Samsung Pay's expanding to cheaper phones and online payments in 2016

From PC World: Mobile payment systems are the new fingerprint sensors: Everybody’s got to have one, it seems. But while Android Pay and Apple Pay enjoy fairly widespread phone support—at least where mobile payments are accepted—Samsung’s own creatively named Samsung Pay has been limited to the...

Prime again: Amazon reports another banner holiday season

From CNET: The e-commerce giant announced Monday that during the week before Christmas it added more than 3 million subscribers to Prime, the $99-per-year service that offers complimentary two-day and sometimes same-day deliveries.

During the holiday season, which Amazon defines as November 1 to...

Google Glass version 2: New photos in FCC filing

From ComputerWorld: Google’s Glass Explorer program may be dead, but the ill-fated face computer—now under the care of Nest CEO Tony Fadell—is very much alive. An FCC filing published on Monday shows the next version of Google Glass in precise detail, giving the world a closer glimpse at a reboot...

Malware peddlers offered Raspberry Pi money to infect your micro-PC

From PC World: The Raspberry Pi—the popular mini-PC that's about the size of credit card—is attracting attention from malware distributors. But not in the sense that you might think.

Last Wednesday, the Raspberry Pi Foundation tweeted a screenshot of an email in which a company effectively asked to...

Christmas glitch allowed Steam users to see others' personal info

From CNET: Some gamers were "Steam"-ing on Christmas as Valve's popular digital gaming store was afflicted with server and privacy problems.

The glitches with the Steam service, including users being able to see others' personal information as well as the store itself going offline, were the result...

Western Digital Red Pro WD6001FFWX 6TB Review (Page 1 of 11)

About a month ago, we published our review on the Western Digital Black WD6001FZWX 6TB hard drive. As I was scouring the internet, one user commented on the introduction of my article, saying it "takes the cake for the most creative way to segue into a hard drive review". Needless to say, I have to agree. I mean, is that not how all our introductions here at APH Networks work? But since this review is part two of our of our three-part series, I...

XTracGear Carbonic XL Review (Page 1 of 4)

When it comes to shopping, there is always one thing I do when I walk into clothing stores, and this is to head all the way to the back. This is because all the clearance items are generally in this area of the store. Call me cheap, but these products are really only here because they have gone out of season, and there is no blemish with the build. Unfortunately, there are multiple problems accompanying this choice. For one, a lot of other people...

Twitter envisions drones controlled by your tweets

From CNET: The San Francisco-based company was granted a patent last week for an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, for capturing photos and videos that can then be shared through users' accounts on the microblogging network. The drone's movements would be controlled by Twitter users' likes, tweets...

Salesforce.com buys developer of quoting and billing apps for SMEs

From PC World: If you can't beat them, buy them: Salesforce.com is snapping up SteelBrick, a startup that builds quoting and billing functions for SMEs on the Salesforce cloud platform.

Apps built natively on the platform allow Salesforce.com customers to add functionality to their CRM systems with...

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