From CNET: The European Commission has been investigating Google's business practices around its Android mobile software, and now the search giant has an extra six weeks to respond to the commission's allegations, according to a report Tuesday by Reuters.
In April, the EU formally charged Google...
From InfoWorld: Seagate Technology will cut about 6,500 jobs worldwide, or 14 percent of its workforce, with most of the cuts in manufacturing jobs, it said Monday.
The data storage maker had said in June that it was aiming to cut 1,600 employees, or 3 percent of its global workforce, by the end of...
From CNET: Google's experimental wireless carrier, called Project Fi, already works for US users traveling abroad, without them having to pay more for international plans. But on Tuesday, the search giant said it wants to sweeten the pot for people using Fi while traveling by revving up...
From PC World: Microsoft is bringing the dream of the Star Trek universal translator to businesses later this year with the launch of a new beta feature that offers live captioning of Skype for Business meeting broadcasts in 40 languages.
Using Microsoft's Bing Translator technology, speakers...
From CNET: Epic giffage is now possible on Twitter. The microblogging platform has quietly increased the maximum size for gifs from 5MB to 15MB. There has been no official announcement, but the updated Twitter help page now reads, "Photos can be up to 5MB; animated GIFs can be up to 5MB on mobile...
From PC World: A mobile chip faster than the one in flagship smartphones like Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and LG’s G5 will start appearing in handsets this quarter.
The Snapdragon 821, announced by Qualcomm on Monday, is an incremental upgrade to the Snapdragon 820. In addition to mobile phones, it’s also...
From InfoWorld: Microsoft has released an early 64-bit version of Office 2016 for the Mac, giving adventurous users a chance to finally make the move off 32-bit, as their Windows colleagues have long done.
"The Mac Office team has been working on the transition and we're currently preparing to...
From PC World: Facebook will allow its users to livestream violent or graphic video under certain circumstances, the company announced in a statement released Friday.
In the statement, the social media giant stated that, “if a person witnessed a shooting, and used Facebook Live to raise awareness...
From CNET: The reality of 5G, wireless connectivity that's faster than our speediest home internet service, is years away. But that isn't stopping Verizon from making its presence felt now.
The nation's largest wireless carrier said Monday it has worked out the radio specifications for its 5G...
As weird as it sounds, I know a guy who has an interesting tendency to look at other people's phone screen if it was within his visual range. Every time you get a notification, if he was sitting next to you, you know he would be reading it. However, this is not the worst thing he does. He would also read it out loud so everyone around you can hear it, followed by some awkward questions about the sender, as well as the context of your message. The...
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