Sharp Planning OLED Production in Foxconn Factory for iPhone Displays

Apple’s next iPhone will reportedly sport an OLED display, and now insider sources are saying Sharp ramping up to be a supplier in a Foxconn factory. Sharp is investing about US$864 million in the production line at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou City facility…

Trello, hello, hello: Todo list biz gobbled by Atlassian for $425m

Freemium biz model to be retained Freemium digital post-it business board Trello is to be acquired by productivity software floggers Atlassian.…

Best weather apps for iPhone

Get the weather the way you want it! There are hundreds of weather apps in the App Store. It's a very popular category. Sure, Apple's built-in weather app is a great option with nice graphics and animations and useful hourly forecasting. But, eac…

Samsung opens up iOS compatibility for its wearables

 After a long stint as a closed ecosystem, Samsung’s wearables are now opening up to make some new friends. The Korean tech giant today announced, on the heels of CES 2017, that Samsung wearables would now come with iOS compatibility, allowing iPhon…

Negotiate "Allowance Contracts" With Your Kids to Teach Them About Money

The sooner we learn about money, the more time we have to develop solid financial habits. An allowance is a good opportunity to teach kids how money works. Over at the Penny Hoarder, one father explains how he uses an “allowance contract” to teach h…

Flashy new jobs for storage folk

Marketing exec, board advisor get new gigs in the new year Kevin Kilbuck has become chief marketing officer at NVMdurance, a tiny Irish flash endurance lengthening company that first popped up last year. It uses machine learning techniques to unders…

Sharp to Set Up $864 Million OLED Production Line at Foxconn Factory?

Sharp is planning to invest $864 million USD to set up an OLED production line at a Foxconn factory Zhengzhou City, northern China, reports Nikkei. Foxconn acquired a 66% share in the company last year. Japan-based Sakai Display Products (SDP), of w…

Apple pulls app for finding lost AirPods from App Store

Finder for AirPods, an app designed to assist owners of Apple's AirPods in finding their audio accessory if it has been misplaced, was taken down from the App Store just a few days after it launched.

Apple Allegedly Partnering With Carl Zeiss for Augmented Reality Glasses

Apple and German company Carl Zeiss AG are working together on a pair of augmented reality smart glasses that could be announced as soon as this year, claims well-known blogger Robert Scoble in a Facebook post. According to Scoble, a Zeiss employ…

Why Focusing on Yourself Helps You Get Over Someone Else

Breaking up is hard to do, but fixating on your ex and your old relationship isn’t healthy. You probably know that, but if you shift your thinking about your old relationship onto you and your needs, rather than your ex and the things you don’t have…

Sharp setting up OLED production line at Foxconn’s iPhone manufacturing plant

Verizon Raises Smartphone Upgrade Fee to $30

Less than a year after introducing a fee for customers upgrading their smartphones, Verizon has raised the the price of said fee from $20 to $30, reports The Verge. The fee change was quietly implemented last week alongside the discontinuation of…

Is Apple building ‘The Device?’ [revisited]

While the Handspring Treo's top model offers a color screen, cell phone, Palm OS PDA and more, it also lacks the ability to...

Flashy new jobs for storage folk

Marketing exec, board advisor get new gigs in the new year Kevin Kilbuck has become chief marketing officer at NVMdurance, a tiny Irish flash endurance lengthening company that first popped up last year. It uses machine learning techniques to unders…

Phil Schiller on iPhone’s launch, how it changed Apple, and why it will keep going for 50 years

Apple is notorious for not looking back....

Trello, hello, hello: Todo list biz gobbled by Atlassian for $425m

Freemium biz model to be retained Freemium digital post-it business board Trello is to be acquired by productivity software floggers Atlassian.…

News: Samsung’s Gear S3, Gear S2, Fit2 smartwatches gain iOS compatibility

Samsung has announced its Gear S3, Gear S2 and Gear Fit2 smartwatches are now compatible with iOS. Depending on the model, users will need the Gear S or Gear Fit apps, now available on the App Stor…

News: KGI’s Kuo still predicts three iPad sizes, including a high end midsize model

Well-connected KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is doubling down on his August prediction that Apple will release three iPads in the second quarter of 2017, claiming Apple will release 12.9”, 10-10.5” and …

The Stylophone Gen X-1 toy synth is an updated version of a classic

The annual winter installment of the NAMM pro audio show doesn't start until next week, but we typically see companies tease announcements in advance. British synth outfit Dubreq has done just that, pulling the wraps off of a new version of…

The Stylophone Gen X-1 toy synth is an updated version of a classic

The annual winter installment of the NAMM pro audio show doesn't start until next week, but we typically see companies tease announcements in advance. British synth outfit Dubreq has done just that, pulling the wraps off of a new version of…

Hands-on: Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming finally brings great gaming to Mac [Video]

Gaming on Macs has never been a primary use case, but for the few who do want to use their Macs for gaming — whether on the desktop or on a Macbook — there have never been great options. However, at CES 2017, NVIDIA has revealed that it’s game stre…