Prank Website Offers $49 HP TouchPads
With technophiles still scrambling to get their hands on the remaining Hewlett-Packard’s $99 TouchPads, a $49 deal just seems too good to be true. And, as the thousand or so people who tried to buy...
View ArticleAmazon Developing Own Online Advertising
Amazon Inc is planning to develop its own software for generating advertisements online, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. While the in-house platform is...
View ArticleMarriott Ordered To Pay $600K In Wi-Fi Blocking Lawsuit
This might come as good news for anyone who has ever felt gouged by hotel charges for Wi-Fi service: Marriott International has to pay $600,000 following an investigation into whether it intentionally...
View ArticleYahoo To Lay Out Cost-cutting Efforts
Yahoo Inc is expected today to reveal cost-cutting efforts and give details of how it is evaluating possible acquisitions as it faces mounting pressure from an activist investor, the Wall Street...
View ArticleStorj Service Wants To Rent Out Your Extra Hard Drive Space
While not an entirely unique concept, a new decentralized service is beta testing a peer-to-peer network that would “rent” unused space from your PC’s hard drive as part of a cloud service to store...
View ArticleQualcomm Previews Wireless Charging For Electric Vehicles
Qualcomm Inc revealed that it had demonstrated how electric vehicles could be charged wirelessly while driving, a technology some believe will help accelerate the adoption of self-driving cars. The...
View ArticleWhy Are Shareholders Going After Qualcomm
Don Rosenberg, executive vice president and general counsel of Qualcomm said that while Apple has acknowledged that payment is owed for the use of Qualcomm's valuable intellectual property, it...
View ArticleApple Pay Tempts Chinese Consumers With Huge Discounts
China’s mobile payments market is worth almost $6 trillion, and Apple wants to elbow its way in. To entice more Chinese to start using Apple Pay, the iPhone maker is offering up to 50 percent discounts...
View ArticleMicrosoft Developing Cashier-free Technology For Retailers
Microsoft Corp is developing technology that would get rid of cashiers and checkout lines from stores, in a nascent challenge to Amazon.com Inc’s automated grocery shop, six people familiar with the...
View ArticleiPhone Chipmaker TSMC Fighting Viruses At Its Plants
iPhone chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. experienced several of its factories being knocked offline late last week because of a virus, but it’s unclear whether production of the iPhone...
View ArticleCalifornia Signs Into Law Net Neutrality Rules
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law the strictest set of net neutrality protections ever seen in the US — and the Trump administration immediately vowed to challenge the state’s authority...
View ArticleQualcomm Shows The Prowess Of The Snapdragon 855
Another pinnacle is that the Snapdragon 855 supports WiFi 60 GHz that can take you all the way to 10 Gbps. This is a shorter distance, millimeter Wave solution that will enable some cool technologies...
View ArticleDisney Prices New Streaming Service At $70/Annually
Walt Disney Co has unveiled the pricing of its highly anticipated streaming video service below Netflix in an aggressive move to challenge the dominant streaming service and entice families to buy yet...
View ArticleWill Disney Sell Its Newly Acquired FoxNext Division
Bloomberg reports that Disney is currently planning the sale of the studio with the decision driven by CEO Robert Iger. Though executives such as direct-to-consumer chief Kevin Mayer have expressed...
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