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Acer’s Revo Build Is a Puzzle of a PC

Acer last week announced the latest in its family of Revo small-form-factor PCs at the IFA 2015 trade show in Berlin. The Revo Build M1-601 consists of a cuboid base unit with a footprint measuring about 5 inches square and a set of easily attachable modules ...

Samsung Gear S2 Scores Points for Looking Like a Watch

Samsung last week announced the Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic smartwatches at the IFA trade show in Berlin ...

Microsoft Spiffs Up Skype Mobile Apps

Microsoft last week rolled out versions of Skype 6.0 for iOS and Android. The company redesigned the applications to be more natural and intuitive, and it added new features ...

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Nextbit’s Robin Flies Past Kickstarter Goal

Nextbit earlier this week launched a Kickstarter campaign forRobin, a cloud-connected Android smartphone. Robin boasts a streamlined interface that does away with bloatware and automatically offloads data to the cloud ...

Google’s Rebuttal Against EU May Be in Vain

Google last week responded to the European Commission's statement of objections regarding its search practices by rejecting outright the Europeans' argument that its innovations were anticompetitive ...

Baby Monitors Riddled With Security Holes

Rapid7 on Wednesday released a report on an assortment of new vulnerabilities in baby monitors from several manufacturers: predictable information leaks; backdoor credentials; reflective, stored XSS; direct browsing; authentication bypass; and privilege escalation ...

New App Marries Android Wear Smartwatch to iPhone

Google on Monday rolled out Android Wear for iOS, allowing consumers to pair the iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6 or 6 Plus running iOS 8.2 and above with an Android Wear watch. They'll be able to check phone calls, messages and notifications; track fitness; and use Google Now instead of Siri to get smart help from their iPhones ...

Salesforce Lightning Strikes Twice

Salesforce last week launched Salesforce Lightning, combining its new Lightning Experience and new Lightning Design System with its Lightning App Builder and Lightning Components released last month ...

T-Mobile’s Legere Channels Robin Hood Again

CEO John Legere has publicly declared war on data hogs who threaten to ruin T-Mobile for regular consumers ...

Weaponized Drones May Fly the Friendly Skies of North Dakota

Police in North Dakota can use drones armed with what are optimistically called "nonlethal weapons," thanks to the passage of House Bill 1328, which Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed into law this spring ...

Intel Pumps OpenStack Up

As part of a new strategic collaboration, Intel will lead a US$100 million funding round inMirantis, the companies announced earlier this week. Intel is a long-time investor in Mirantis ...

Amazon Firing Spree Follows Fire Phone Flop

Amazon has given the boot to dozens of engineers who worked on its ill-fated Fire Phone, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday ...

Cortana Cozies Up to Android Users

Microsoft on Monday released a public beta of its Cortana personal assistant for Android ...

Cyber-Posse Aims to Round Up Ashley Madison Hackers

The Toronto Police Service on Monday held a press conference to report on the progress of Project Unicorn, the official investigation into the hack attack on Ashley Madison, an adultery-promoting website. ...

Spredfast Gets Something to Shout About

Spredfast last week announced its acquisition of Shoutlet, a social data aggregator ...

Samsung to Ask SC to Reverse Tide in Apple Case

Samsung last week filed a motion to stay the U.S. Court of Appeals' order in its multiyear patent war with Apple, indicating that it plans to take the case to the United States Supreme Court ...

Spotify’s ‘Sorry’ Fails to Cut Through Confusion

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek on Friday issued a public apology for poor communications regarding the company's new privacy policy ...

Sony’s SmartBand 2 Takes the Plunge

Sony on Thursday unveiled its SmartBand 2 fitness tracker ...

Devs Get to Poke Around With Marshmallow

Google on Monday announced the official SDK for Android 6.0, aka "Marshmallow."It also opened Google Play for devs to publish apps that target the new API Level 23 in Marshmallow ...

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Ashley Madison World

Hackers on Tuesday dumped personal data of about 37 million members of the Ashley Madison website onto the Dark Web. The data was stolen last month in an attack on the site, which aims to hook up people who want to cheat on their spouses ...

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