From PC World: Standards wars are like the game Monopoly: The one with the most property usually ends up winning.
Well, AMD just snapped up the railroads and utilities. On Tuesday, the company's new Radeon Technologies Group announced it’ll have its variable refresh rate technology, dubbed...
From CNET: HTC has been having a particularly rough year, but showed some signs of life in November.
Thanks to the iPhone-esque One A9, which was released in late October, the Taiwanese company enjoyed a 6-month revenue peak during November, bringing in NT$10.29 billion ($314 million, AU$435...
From ComputerWorld: Semiconductor maker Micron Technology is closing a manufacturing facility in Puerto Rico and moving the work to China.
Around 185 jobs are affected by the closure, which is due to be completed by the end of this month, according to a U.S. government filing.
This is not good...
From ComputerWorld: Microsoft has been preparing Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs for a more aggressive Windows 10 upgrade strategy that the company will kick off shortly, according to the developer of a tool that blocks such upgrades.
"Over Thanksgiving weekend I started getting reports that the...
From InfoWorld: Amazon has launched an AWS Directory Service for Active Directory, a fully-managed implementation of Microsoft's authentication and user management service.
Using Active Directory in Amazon's cloud will enable companies to bring applications including SQL Server, SharePoint, and...
From PC World: Here's some good news for folks whose wanderings frequently lead them astray from strong cellular signals: Wi-Fi calling is finally coming to the Verizon network this week, albeit slowly.
Starting December 8, Verizon customers will be eligible for Wi-Fi calls if they have a Samsung...
From CNET: When it comes to Apple, things aren't so simple anymore.
The company's 2015 was punctuated by high-risk, big-ticket launches that have taken Apple into entirely new areas. It's no longer just that iPhone company, even if its revenue suggests otherwise. Cupertino, California-based Apple...
I always see something new and fun from my friends. On one occasion, my friend introduced me to mechanical keyboards. I had just moved here from South Africa, and I had a terrible laptop with an even worse keyboard. One time, my friends organized a LAN party, and one of them had a nice mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Blue switches. Everyone got annoyed at him, since he was the only one making lots of clicky noises while we played StarCraft...
As Christmas is around the corner, or more specifically, twenty one days from the publication date of this review, I think it is only natural I should talk about all the things I like when this time of the year rolls around. Of course, there are the obvious things like the real meaning of Christmas, and spending time with family and friends, but otherwise, the first thing I can think of is the food. We have a lot of gatherings with other people...
From ComputerWorld: A three-year-old vulnerability in a software component used in millions of smart TVs, routers and phones still hasn't been patched by many vendors, thus posing a risk, according to Trend Micro.
Although a patch was issued for the component in December 2012, Trend Micro found...
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