Technology News

If you want an iPhone X this year, you had better act fast. Just after 10 minutes from the original pre-order launch time on Oct. 27, orders were ALREADY booked out past the scheduled release date. At this point, preorders have been moved out to December. Apple is not only excited to bring new technology and […]

eCommerce businesses already rely heavily on technology: Without the Web and devices that connect to it, they would have no place or opportunities to make sales. However, when it comes to technology that facilitates online business, shops are only the beginning. Software developers offer all sorts of integrations that improve shop functionality, increase accounting accuracy […]

It is finally over — and Apple is the victor to the tune of nearly $120 million. The Supreme Court has declined to hear Samsung’s appeal of a three-year-old patent infringement case in which it was ruled the South Korean firm’s older phones infringed on three key Apple patents. A 2-1 ruling from the U.S. Court of […]

Semiconductor provider Broadcom made a $130-billion takeover bid for rival Qualcomm today, in a move that would make the company an even larger force to be reckoned with in the mobile chip industry. Broadcom is offering $70 per share — $60 in cash and $10 per share in Broadcom shares — to acquire all of Qualcomm’s outstanding stock. If the deal goes […]

Microsoft has signed a 10-year deal to purchase 100 percent of the energy generated from a Netherlands wind farm owner Vattenfall. As part of the agreement, the energy company will construct a 180-megawatt wind farm adjacent to Microsoft’s datacenter operations in the Netherlands that delivers Microsoft Cloud services to customers across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, as well as global […]

Qualcomm is accusing Apple of using its “unprecedented access” to Qualcomm’s code to help its arch-rival Intel. Qualcomm is suing Apple for breach of contract, saying the Cupertino company failed to protect the chip maker’s software, Bloomberg is reporting. According to the report, “Apple made an e-mail request for proprietary information from Qualcomm and included an Intel […]

Hundreds of millions of financial and personal data records have been stolen in recent corporate and government data loss incidents. Equifax, in the greatest security breach in U.S. history, lost social security numbers, addresses, driver’s license information and such, for more than 143 million Americans. Typical to most data loss incidents, there were several things […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook is less than impressed with how social media has been used as a weapon to spread fake news. As Facebook, Twitter and Google testify before the Senate and House Intelligence committees this week about Russia’s use of their social platforms to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Cook, in an interview with […]

YouTube TV is coming to the big screen — in your home, that is. YouTube has announced the launch of its TV app which is currently rolling out to Android TV. The YouTube TV app will also be available in the coming weeks via Xbox One, Apple TV and Roku, as well as on Smart TVs […]

Sundar Pichai took to Twitter over the weekend to promise his crew at Google would make fixing their cheeseburger emoji a top priority today. If you can believe it, people have been criticizing the tech titan for the placement of the cheese on its hamburger. Horror of horrors, Google placed the slice of cheese underneath […]

Data silos have become the scourge of the 21st century. Besides the costs of eventually having to undo them, having data separated in various databases and programs rather than fully integrated also significantly hinders efficiency and productivity. When your company’s data lives in separate, non-communicating systems, you are hampering your company’s ability to get the […]

A great banner can make or break your campaign. It needs to engage and entice the viewer enough to trigger the click — in a limited amount of space and time. Play on the color. People expect orange for Halloween so give them what they want – not yellow. There can be a very strict color code to obey when designing Halloween banners. Even when […]

Ever since the invention of the telephone in the 19th century, technology has played a huge role in the history of human communications. Prior to this breakthrough, long distance communications still relied on the postal system — which had barely evolved since the ancient world. All of a sudden, people in faraway locations could communicate […]

Apple was forced to put Carpool Karaoke, one of its original television shows, on hold due to vulgar content. Although the delay of Carpool Karaoke was announced in April, the reasons for that delay were kept quiet. Bloomberg, however, has managed to discover the reason: The show was put held up because of too much “foul language and […]

Google is teaming up with Cisco to challenge the undisputed leaders of the cloud computing market: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. The partnership, which gives Google Cloud a chance to gain more customers and get out of its No. 3 spot in the cloud niche, will enable Cisco customers to more easily move data to Google’s […]