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Latest News - July 2015
- Moore’s Law Stumbles As Intel’s 10nm Cannonlake Chips Delayed Until 2017
- Native Visual Voicemail Support Coming To Android M Dialer App
- OnePlus Outlines Much Needed Revamp To Its Problematic Invite System
- Microsoft Partners Prepare Low Cost Windows 10 'Cloudbook' Competitors To Chromebooks, Acer Leads Charge
- Qualcomm’s Mastery Of Mobile Chip Market Ruffles European Commission’s Feathers
- Windows 10 Build 10240 Now Available To All Fast And Slow Ring Windows Insiders
- United Gives Hackers Millions Of Free Airlines Miles Via Bug Bounty Program
- Livestream Event Invite From Motorola Hints Arrival Of Next-Gen Moto 360 Smartwatch, New Moto X
- Samsung Gear A Smartwatch Touts Exynos 3472 Processor, 250 mAh Battery, Tizen OS
- Facebook Trials Adding ‘Buy’ Button Directly On Retailer Pages
- Intel Beats The Street, Q2 Revenue $13.2 Billion, Shares Surge 8 Percent
- Windows 10 Hits RTM Two Weeks Ahead Of Global Debut
- SanDisk Drops USB Requirement With Battery-Powered Connect Wireless Storage Stick
- Shop Amazon Prime Day Lightning Deals – Better Than Black Friday!
- Micron Entertains $23 Billion Buyout From China's Tsinghua Unigroup
- Commodore Resurfaces With PET Android Smartphone Featuring Built-In C64 And Amiga Emulators
- Lenovo ThinkPad W550s Ultrabook Mobile Workstation Review
- Facebook Security Chief Alex Stamos Calls On Adobe To Kill Flash
- Apple Reinvigorates iPod Touch With 64-bit A8 SoC, 8MP Camera, And 128GB Storage
- Next Gen Huawei Nexus Sports 5.7-inch Display, Snapdragon 820 And Metal Body
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All News for July 2015
As the year's pass, the iconic Moore's Law becomes more and more challenged. With Intel's Cannonlake, a 10nm architecture originally expected to release in 2016, we can see proof of that. During the company's latest financial earnings call, Intel admitted that it will require more time to deliver processors built on...
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I can't imagine that many people like messing around with their voicemail. Be it a lack of patience or laziness, I cringe anytime I receive one and am forced to fiddle about in the awkward interface, trying to remember the buttons I have to press to achieve a certain action.
In this particular scenario, Android M...
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The OnePlus team said it learned from its mistakes with the launch of its original OnePlus One handset and promises a smoother rollout for the forthcoming OnePlus 2. This time around there will be more units available -- a lot more. According to OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, there will be anywhere from 30 times to 50...
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Microsoft is done being undercut by Google and its low-priced, cloud-driven Chromebooks. During its Worldwide Partner Conference, Redmond revealed its own inexpensive alternative, the Acer Aspire One Cloudbook. The $169 Windows 10 notebook will hit stores in August.
Acer's Aspire One Cloudbook will sport an...
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The very ornery European Commission has set its sights on mobile chipmaker Qualcomm, which is the focus of two formal antitrust investigations into possible abusive behavior related to baseband chipsets used in consumer electronic devices. What investigators are looking into is whether or not Qualcomm essentially...
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Come and get it!! The latest build of Windows 10 is now available for Windows Insiders, and we couldn’t be more delighted. After all the flak that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 received from the tech press, businesses, and even everyday consumers, Windows 10 is a definitely a breath of fresh air (the free upgrades are...
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To quote the Guinness brothers, rewarding security researchers with frequent flier miles in exchange for rooting out system bugs is "brilliant!" That's what United Airlines is doing, and it's already given out two of its highest awards available -- one million miles -- which is enough to redeem for dozens of domestic...
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Grab yourself a Sharpie, pop the cap off, and circle July 28 on your calendar. Oh, and don't forget to set your alarm if you're the type that likes to sleep in. At 9 AM Eastern (a bright and early 6 AM Pacific), Motorola will host a livestream event in which it will likely announce a new Moto 360 smartwatch, and...
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In case you haven’t been paying attention, Samsung has been extremely quiet on the smartwatch front for the past year following the launch of the Gear S. After releasing a flood of smartwatches during 2013 and 2014, the company has been relatively quiet on the smartwatch front while Android Wear devices and the Apple...
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Facebook is the most popular social playground on the planet, which is something we've been saying for quite some time now. The reason it's been able to avoid the same fate as Myspace is because it's constantly changing, adapting, and yes, even innovating. It's not just a social network anymore, but a place to play...
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All we seem to hear about these days is how the PC market is off its mark, but rather than pout and pound sand over the situation, Intel appears to have flexed a bit of manufacturing and technology muscle to help weather the storm. Not only that, Intel surpassed analysts' expectations today by reporting second-quarter...
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It’s Happening! The word on the street is that Windows 10 is complete; it has hit the release to manufacturing (RTM) stage, which means that hardware OEMs around the globe will soon be loading the final version of Windows 10 onto machines shipping at the end of this month. Microsoft first announced Windows 10 in late January (however, the
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It goes without saying that USB-based flash drives have proven to be an absolute boon to the management - and portability - of our storage. Remember the chore of having to burn a CD to bring data from one PC to another? That requirement was long gone with the advent of flash drives, and even today, well over a decade...
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Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd., a Chinese state-owned semiconductor design firm, is reportedly making a play to acquire Micron Technology Inc. for $23 billion. Should the transaction ultimately happen, there would be no more U.S. memory makers left standing. However, there are several hurdles that stand in the way of the...
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The name "Commodore" is one that incites the nostalgic cells in many people, and its copyright owners know it. A couple of years ago, an all-in-one PC that was modeled after the iconic C64's keyboard was released, and for the most part, it was awesome. After all, how could something modeled after the C64 not...
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This is a good year for creative professionals that are constantly on the go. After watching the corporate world trot around with thin and light notebooks that sport bleeding-edge hardware and touchscreens, the content creation and workstation set is finally getting to enjoy features in their notebooks that many others take for granted. Lenovo...
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Has the time come to put Adobe's Flash Player plugin out of our misery? Facebook CSO Alex Stamos thinks so. In a series of Twitter posts, Stamos makes a plea for Adobe to set a date to euthanize Flash, allowing the web and Internet users at large to move on to better (and more secure) technologies. The question is...
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We reported last week that Apple was set to unveil a next generation iPod touch with a faster, 64-bit processor (the current iPod touch is using the old-as-dirt A5 SoC). We had expected that Apple would use the 2013-era A7 processor for the redheaded stepchild of the iOS family, but the folks from Cupertino...
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Nexus fans who have been following the rumors have heard that Google's tapping two different manufactures for its next generation offerings. One is South Korean outfit LG Electronics, a familiar partner of Google's that is supposedly working on the Nexus 5 (2015 model), and the other is Huawei, which has been linked...
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In case you forgot to mark your calendar, today is Prime Day, a special one-day shopping event created by Amazon to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Amazon says there are more deals than Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, though to participate you need to be a Prime member in the U.S., U.K., Spain...
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Samsung's prior infatuation with plastic and polycarbonate shells didn't stop the company from using premium materials in the design of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Plus, and going forward, it looks like we expect more of the same. That's certainly true of the Galaxy A8, a new handset that is now official. It's also incredibly thin at just
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