No market is safe from search engine monster In just 90 minutes on Tuesday morning, Google took an enormous leap into the hardware market, offering new products to compete with Sonos in the music streaming market, Roku in video streaming, Linksys in…
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Lees meerThe last of Google’s Nexus line Comment It has been nearly a year since the Nexus 5X smartphone was launched. On Tuesday, October 4, Google is expected to announce new smartphones – and possibly more – at an event in San Francisco.…
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Lees meerPika-achoo! An American hospital is behind one of 72 complaints lodged with a US watchdog over Pokémon Go – the game in which people with nothing better to do with their lives try to track down virtual animals using smartphones.…
Lees meerInc's ink stink merely a 'miscommunication' HP Inc is trying to spin its way out of the mess it created when it decided it would be a fantastic idea to brick unofficial and refilled printer cartridges.…
Lees meerSwitches to licensing 'secure Android' and apps Here’s your chance to design your own BlackBerry. BlackBerry today ended its 17-year adventure as a phone-maker with CEO John Chen announcing “a new strategic direction focussed on licensing our secure…
Lees meerRaw materials will be open and multi-source While HP Inc is getting a lot of flack over its DRM lockdown on 2D printing consumables, in the 3D world the company wants to address that it won't be setting the prices on consumables.…
Lees meer3.5mm audio jacks are in big trouble now as one cable to rule them all standard signed off The USB implementers forum has loosed “USB Audio Device Class 3.0” onto the breathlessly-waiting world.…
Lees meerOnly one in ten demanding cash, we're told Just over three weeks after announcing a global Galaxy Note 7 recall, Samsung says six out of ten owners in US and South Korea have returned their potentially exploding phablets.…
Lees meerAnother initiative targets developers of smart doorbells and other gizmos Linaro, the collaborative engineering effort focused around Linux for ARM-based devices, has spawned a new working group to develop open reference platforms for connected prod…
Lees meerFounder boss's funding of Trump trolls sparks backlash A number of game developers have decided to end their support of the Oculus virtual reality headset over reports that its founder Palmer Luckey is actively funding "Trump trolls."…
Lees meerUtopian dreams of the concept's creators blur into crappy reality Life in a London firm is tough: it’s full of jewel heists, flying bullets and car chases. Well, this was the case during my last foray into Virtual Reality.…
Lees meerFatality – wait, no, what? That's the other game A fresh update for Capcom's Street Fighter V for PCs includes a knock-out move: a secret rootkit that gives any installed application kernel-level privileges.…
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