Windows 10 is a well-meaning effort by Microsoft to mollify Windows 8 haters and coax Windows 7 loyalists to upgrade — all while stubbornly sticking to its goal of a single OS for every possible platform. And by framing the problem that way, Microsoft has given itself a nearly impossible task. To the company’s credit, each new build lurches closer to being usable, although...
If you're thinking about getting an Apple Watch and have been on the fence, this review is for you. Why? The Apple Watch, it turns out, is less about being the perfect smartwatch than it is about being a watch. For the fence sitters out there, these two questions are really where you should start: First, do you want a watch? Second, do...
NVIDIA's line of Shield Android gaming tablets has become much more promising with their first Shield tablet and the introduction of the K1 CPU with Kepler graphics. The 8" NVIDIA Shield tablet is portable enough to take with you, yet it packs more processing and graphics power than any other Android tablet on the market (save the Xiaomi MiPad with K1 that's not...
The PS Vita, Sony's second generation portable gaming console, hardly needs an introduction. It's been 7 years since the PSP launched, and even though the device is about deep gameplay and quality titles, the hardware was more than a little rusty. The world was more than ready for something new from Sony. The PS Vita sells for $249 for the WiFi only version...
Ever since Intel launched its high-performance Thunderbolt interface, it’s been fighting to win market share away from USB devices. There’s never been any question of which standard was faster — first-generation Thunderbolt blew USB 3.0 out of the water — but higher device costs, expensive cables, and limited OEM uptake have limited Thunderbolt’s market penetration. Today, with the announcement of Intel’s Alpine Ridge,...
The NVIDIA Shield is unlike any device. The 5" Android gaming handheld isn't the Sony Xperia Play since it has no cellular radio and it has a beefy controller that makes no concession to compactness. It's not the Sony PS Vita or Nintendo DS either since it's a full powered Android handheld with access to the Google Play Store and everything an Android can do: Office, ebooks,...
Russia wants to develop alternatives to proprietary or partly closed mobile operating systems by using open source tools as a foundation, Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolay Nikiforov said last week. Russia's BRICS partners -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- are expected to support the plan, he said. "Success would make a fairly significant impact on the go-to market...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is the largest telecommunications equipment maker in the world, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012. Huawei was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former engineer in the People's Liberation Army. At the time of its establishment Huawei was focused on manufacturing phone switches, but has since expanded its business to include building telecommunications networks; providing operational...
Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, online services, and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod media player, the iPhone smartphone, the iPad tablet computer, and the Apple Watch smartwatch. Its online services include iCloud, the iTunes Store, and the App Store. Apple's consumer software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and productivity suites. Apple was founded...
iOS (originally iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. and distributed exclusively for Apple hardware. It is the operating system that presently powers many of the company's mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Originally unveiled in 2007 for the iPhone, it has been extended to support other Apple devices such as the iPod Touch (September 2007),iPad (January 2010), iPad Mini (November 2012) and second-generation Apple TV onward (September 2010). As of...
