Samsung (SSNLF) wants you to talk to your phone more. Not in the traditional sense of calling someone, but rather by chatting directly with your handset via its Bixby voice assistant. Launched on the company’s Galaxy S8, Bixby got off to a rough start. It lacked voice recognition out of the box and wouldn’t gain the feature until months […]
When I was a kid, I had a 13-inch TV with old-school rabbit ear antennae sticking out the back. When my family finally got cable, my brother and I promptly broke the antennae off and used them to hit each other. More than 20 years later, I’m ordering an HDTV antenna on Amazon to connect […]
By Liana B. Baker and Anjali Athavaley (Reuters) – T-Mobile U.S. Inc and Sprint Corp plan to announce a merger agreement without any immediate asset sales, as they seek to preserve as much of their spectrum holdings and cost synergies as they can before regulators ask for concessions, according to people familiar with the matter. […]
Facebook’s (FB) virtual reality arm Oculus, announced its new Oculus Go at its Oculus Connect 4 conference on Wednesday. The headset, which will ship next year for $199 is aimed squarely at taking virtual reality more mainstream. “It’s hands-down the easiest way to get into VR,” Facebook vice president of VR Hugo Barra told the audience during […]
The latest quarterly update for the Global Games Market Report forecasts that the global games business will grow to $108.9 billion this year, with mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) generating a lion’s share of the revenue. Newzoo called mobile the “most lucrative segment” while noting that it should grow 19% year-on-year to $46.1 billion, which would represent […]
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. A Programmable System-on-Chip from Cypress Semiconductor Corp. A few months after a bruising battle with its founder and longtime chief executive, Cypress Semiconductor Corp.’s current CEO, Hassane El-Khoury, is finding coherence in the renovated yet battle-scarred company that remains. El-Khoury, formerly a top executive in the automotive division at Cypress CY, +0.13%became CEO of the […]
Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Wednesday took its battle for smartphone supremacy against Apple and Samsung to a new level as it announced its new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. The handsets, which are available for pre-order Oct. 3, and will cost $649 and $849. The successors to Google’s excellent Pixel and Pixel XL, the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 […]
You could kill your wired internet connection for your phone’s wireless connection. (Reuters) More Even with recent improvements, competition remains weak in wired broadband — for many Americans, it’s the local cable company or slow, phone-line-based DSL. But if you need mobile broadband for a smartphone or tablet, you’re blessed with four nationwide carriersyearning to earn your […]
Photo: Bloomberg More It’s hard to think of a tougher policy sales pitch for the tech industry than its argument against a bill called the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA). Advocates for it have a simple request: Do something to stop the plague of online sex trafficking! Opponents are stuck with a more nuanced request on […]
Later this month, your Chrome browser may make you more nervous online. But you should consider that a feature, not a bug. Unfortunately, other browsers aren’t as proactive about the security of the link between your screen and a site, even if they do better at protecting other aspects of your privacy. Snooping alert The […]
A news report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that Goldman Sachs may be considering a major shift in its investment options. The big bank is reportedly deciding whether or not to allow its client investors to trade directly in bitcoin. If Goldman does adopt the new mode of trading, it would make the bank the […]
A year ago, Tesla Motors founder and chief executive Elon Musk quipped that lithium was only the “salt on the salad” for the batteries that are vital to the US company’s electric cars. Fast forward 12 months and concern is growing among analysts, and some other carmakers, that the supply of what Mr Musk dismissed […]
