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November 4, 2016 Mother-Daughter Team Helps Environment by Collecting Old Electronics
Recycling old electronic equipment can be a hassle. And the toxic materials in those devices can be incredibly harmful to the environment. That’s why mother-daughter team Rachel Treasure and Eva Metcalfe started their business, E-CycleWise. The business takes people’s unwanted or damaged electronic devices and disposes of them in a way that won’t harm the environment. […]
ELECTRONICS November 4, 2016 10 Things Your Business Can Learn About Rebranding from Electronics Giant Sharp
When it comes to rebranding, what can your small business learn from a manufacturing giant like Sharp Electronics? Quite a lot, as it turns out. After its purchase by Japanese electronics manufacturer Hon Hai Precision earlier this year, Sharp went through an extensive rebranding process to focus on its home appliance division. The effort resulted in […]
ALL DEALS November 3, 2016 Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G Modem and First Gigabit Class LTE Device Unveiled
HIGHLIGHTS Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 will feature in devices in the first half of 2018 The first Gigabit Class LTE device is a Netgear Mobile Router MR1100 Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X16 LTE modem powers the Gigabit LTE router Qualcomm at its 4G/5G Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday announced unveiled its first 5G modem – the Snapdragon […]
ELECTRONICS November 3, 2016 Honor Pad 2 Tablet With 3GB of RAM, Honor Watch S1 Smartwatch Launched
HIGHLIGHTS Honor Pad 2 sports an 8-inch full-HD (1200×1920 pixels) display Tablet packs a Snapdragon 616 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM Honor Watch S1 is water resistant up to 50 metres Even though the launch of Honor 6X smartphone took centrestage at the company’s launch event in China on Tuesday, Huawei also used the opportunity […]
ELECTRONICS November 3, 2016 Google Pixel Positive Reviews Take Alphabet Shares to Record High
Alphabet Inc. shares hit a record high on Tuesday after mostly positive reviews for its new Pixel phones, the first line of phones designed in-house by its Google unit. The Mountain View, California-based company’s stock gained 2.5 percent to $826.85 at 2:43 p.m. in New York, after earlier reaching $828, the highest price since Aug. […]
NEWS November 3, 2016 Sharp Shares Soar on Prospect of Full-Year Operating Profit
Japan’s Sharp Corp on Wednesday said it expects significant improvement in annual profit due to restructuring and synergies with new owner Foxconn, sending shares in the display maker soaring more than 10 percent. The statement came after the Nikkei business daily reported that Sharp forecasts operating profit of about JPY 40 billion ($385 million) for […]
ALL DEALS November 3, 2016 Android 7.1 Nougat Developer Preview Available for Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Pixel C
TweetShareShareEmailReddit HIGHLIGHTS Preview available for Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, and Pixel C You can download OTA update by being a part of Android Beta Program Pixel smartphones will go for sale in the US from Thursday Google announced earlier this month that the Android 7.1 Nougat developer preview will be released for select devices by […]
NEWS November 3, 2016 Kindle Paperwhite ‘Manga Model’ With 32GB Storage Launched in Japan
HIGHLIGHTS New Kindle Paperwhite model has 32GB storage It can fit a total of 700 comics ‘Manga Model’ Kindle costs 16,280 yen Every time Amazon talks about any of its four Kindle models, one feature never gets talked about – storage. That’s because the file size of most books is insignificant, usually in the order […]
NEWS November 3, 2016 Microsoft Sales, Profit Top Estimates as Cloud Demand Soars
HIGHLIGHTS Estimated profit would be 68 cents on revenue of $21.7 billion Revenue from Azure cloud services more than doubled Pledged to reach annualised revenue of $20 billion in cloud business Microsoft Corp.’s first-quarter sales and earnings topped analysts’ estimates, buoyed by growing demand for cloud-based software and services. Profit excluding certain items was 76 […]
COMPUTERS November 3, 2016 Why Is the iPad Pro a ‘Computer’? Because Apple’s Courting the Business Market
HIGHLIGHTS Ming Chi-Kuo says there will be three new iPad models in 2017 There is growth in the “detachables” category Microsoft released a commercial calling Apple’s “computer” claim into question Apple, it seems, would like to see more tablets in briefcases next year. A new report from MacRumors cites noted Apple analyst Ming Chi-Kuo, who […]
COMPUTERS November 3, 2016 How to Copy-Paste Text and Images Between Your iPhone and Mac
HIGHLIGHTS You can copy items on iOS and paste on Mac and vice-versa This works with iOS 10 and macOS Sierra Use the same iCloud account on all devices Universal clipboard was one of the headline features announced at WWDC 2016. This is the ability to copy items on one Apple device and paste them […]
NEWS November 3, 2016 Google Discloses Windows 10 Bug Under ‘Active Attack’; Microsoft Working on Fix
HIGHLIGHTS Windows 10 vulnerability is win32k.sys system call Google said it’s being “actively exploited” Microsoft is unhappy with Google going public before patch On Monday, Google’s Threat Analysis Group published details of a critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows 10 that allows hackers to escape security sandboxes by using a system call with win32k.sys. The reason […]
