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Lees meerGo boutique, or get out of the way Comment This year’s “Google phones” – now rebranded as Pixel – are just the latest step in Google seizing control of Android – and the biggest so far. If this process is like cooking the proverbial frog, then Goog…
Lees meerRelative of classic CPU gets the dirty job of Two-Phase Digital Power Factor Correction Mostly-forgotten silicon-maker Zilog is alive and has just released a new product that shares a little DNA with the Z80 CPU that powered many of the earliest mas…
Lees meerSoundCloud’s big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don’t release and that isn’t on Spotify or Apple Music. Or at least they weren’t. The first unofficial single-track remixes just went live on…
Lees meerVintage Apple II? Yeah, we can do a couple of bucks US trade watchdog the FTC has terminated second-hand electronics reseller Laptop & Desktop Repair in Sparks, Nevada – after the biz shafted people out of millions of dollars.…
Lees meer$49 headphones. $79 sensor. $199 controller ... Bankrolling Trump trolls costs a lot, yo Excited gamers are going to have to dig even deeper if they want to use the new Oculus Rift virtual reality system.…
Lees meerFlammable Sammy could bring about another recall A replacement – and supposedly non-exploding – Samsung Galaxy Note 7 caught fire on a crowded aircraft today, we're told.…
Lees meerPixel emerges as the One True 'Droid Comment This year’s bid by Google to fill your home with its tat collapsed like a soufflé yesterday – but at least one part will have a huge impact. In the phone world, the impact of its Pixel brand on its partn…
Lees meerBox's software is two generations out of date and falling rapidly behind.
Lees meerWe have the T-shirt. Plus Digital's 64-bit Alpha-powered pen Conference Couture Welcome to another edition of Conference Couture, in which we relive odd moments of technology history through the branded tat given away at trade shows.…
Lees meerAlphabet sub's lounge-room assault omitted fondleslab, amid falling sales Google today announced new phones, VR kit and home gadgetry. But it didn't announce a tablet. And nobody cared.…
Lees meerNo 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…
Lees meerWell, OK, Chromium's pretty nice – as is this new Android smartie Hands-on Google is taking on the iPhone.…
Lees meerCampaign for Real Minerals, queue here Apple claims its iPhone is the world’s most popular digital camera, but perhaps it isn’t as robust as it should be.…
Lees meerIs iPhone fire first sign of the Apocalypse? An American student's iPhone has exploded in his pocket - the latest in a global wave of smartphone combustions increasingly suggesting one of the seven signs of the modern Apocalypse is upon us.…
Lees meeriOS 10 may have only reached roughly half of iPhones and iPads so far, but developers who readied their mobile apps for the new iMessage App Store are already benefitting, a new study finds. Existing apps that added support for iMessage have seen t…
Lees meerRedmond snuffs out its only promising wearable “Devices come and go,” mused Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella this March, discussing the wearables market. Now Nadella can notch up another hardware kill. Microsoft, the only enterprise vendor with a wearabl…
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.…
Lees meerIt's just fancy cruise control The US state of California says that automakers may no longer label their deluxe cruise control systems as "autopilot" or "autonomous" driving modes.…
Lees meerBit of a Dixons, terribly sorry Google executives have been hyping tomorrow’s Android event as the most significant since the platform was first announced in 2008. But there’s little need to tune in for one part of it, thanks to British mobile phone…
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