From PC World: Foxconn, the faceless contractor that assembles many Apple products, is moving up the manufacturing stack with an acquisition that will give it a global consumer brand.
After years of negotiation, it has finally sealed its on-again, off-again deal to buy troubled Japanese components...
From CNET: Google is adding home phone service to a bundle of services that also includes ultra fast broadband.
On Tuesday, the company announced Fiber Phone, a service that will be sold alongside its 1Gbps broadband service and its video offering in cities where Google has deployed its all-fiber...
From InfoWorld: Version 2.8 of Git, the popular and powerful open source version control system used to power the GitHub and GitLab services, was released late yesterday.
According to an announcement on GitHub's blog, version 2.8 includes small but useful improvements to features, as well as a...
From InfoWorld: The U.S. government has managed to access the iPhone used by San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, bypassing a passcode that had the FBI stymied for several weeks.
"The government has now successfully accessed the data stored on Farook’s iPhone and therefore no longer requires...
From CNET: Samsung Pay has officially launched in the world's biggest smartphone market.
Samsung said Monday that its mobile-payments service is now available in China under a partnership with China UnionPay, the bank dominates the interbank payment business in China. The deal, announced in...
From PC World: Apple can't yet boast of significantly longer battery life in devices, but the company is looking to change that.
The company is researching new types of batteries that could potentially help Macs, mobile devices, and wearable devices run much longer without a recharge.
Job...
From ComputerWorld: Apple today replaced the iOS 9.3 update with a new version after the original crippled some older devices last week, and confused large numbers of unaffected customers when their iPhones and iPads told them that they weren't connected to the Internet when in truth they were.
The...
Recently, I have been playing a game called Blade and Soul. This is not a new game, but it was only recently released to North America. Much like the popular World of Warcraft, this is a massively multiplayer online role playing game, or MMORPG, with a pretty big open world. I am not exactly very good at this game, but I play because I had a few friends who also play. It also helps with the fact the graphics and scenery is much better than the...
Quite a few movies joke about the idea of if something can go wrong, it will go wrong. When the main character is having a bad day, they will say it could be worse, and on cue, it would start raining or snowing. Something will happen just to make things worse for the main character. Colloquially we sum up this experience as Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. If anyone has recently been following the DOTA 2 Shanghai Major...
From InfoWorld: Cloud computing startup Mesosphere made its mark early with large companies like Twitter and Netflix, and on Thursday the company got a fresh boost from two more tech giants: Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Built on the open-source Apache Mesos project credited with...
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