Best Buy to expand sales of Apple Watch to all its stores next month

From CNET: The Apple Watch appears to be a hit at Best Buy. To capitalize on that demand, the electronics retailer plans to carry the smartwatch in all its stores by the end of next month.

Best Buy will sell the Apple Watch in 900 stores starting September 4, CEO Hubert Joly said during the company...

New wave of Android Wear watches aims to make up for lost time

From CNET: Can't get enough of smartwatches? Well, a whole new batch is on its way.

Asus, Huawei, LG and Motorola will introduce their newest smartwatches next week at the IFA electronics trade show in Berlin, according to people familiar with the companies' launch plans. The devices will all run...

Intel backs $100 million funding round into OpenStack cloud

From InfoWorld: Looking to fuel enterprise adoption of the cloud, Intel is playing a lead role in a $100 million investment in an emerging player in the OpenStack arena.

Intel announced today it was leading a $100 million funding round for a collaboration with Mirantis Inc., a Mountain View, Calif...

Comcast plans for nationwide 1-gigabit cable service by 2018

From PC World: Comcast plans to begin 1-gigabit service rollouts later this year, with an eye toward pushing the service nationwide in two to three years, according to a report.

The key is the deployment of DOCSIS 3.1, a cable-modem standard that Comcast will begin trialing during the fourth...

Dell creates new server division for 'second-tier' hyperscale customers

From InfoWorld: Dell has formed a new business unit to go after the "second tier" of hyperscale customers -- those with similar needs to those of Google and Facebook but who aren't quite as massive.

The Datacenter Scaleable Solutions group, announced Monday, will work with companies in fields like...

LG's Pad 10.1 tablet upgraded with better screen and more power

From PC World: Even if the tablet market is in a malaise, vendors aren’t giving up on the product category. LG Electronics will unveil the best model of its G Pad tablet series at the IFA trade show in Berlin next week.

LG’s latest tablet, the G Pad II 10.1, is more powerful and has a better screen...

Mozilla waves add-on model white flag

From ComputerWorld: Mozilla on Friday spelled out major changes to one of Firefox's strengths -- its deep ecosystem of add-ons -- that will make it easier for developers to port Google Chrome extensions to Firefox.

In a long post on a company blog, Kev Needham, product manager for Firefox on the...

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