With new Nook Tablet 7, Barnes & Noble looking to compete with Amazon Fire tablets
The bookseller had abandoned producing its own Android tablets, working with Samsung instead, but a new model with budget specs and built by a Chinese third-party manufacturer has hit the FCC. Read More
Rice cookers to air purifiers: What on earth will Xiaomi flog next and should it just stick to phones?
It has an enviable track record in fitness bands and power banks, but Xiaomi’s hardware play may just prove to be too distracting in an environment where domestic sales have tanked by 38 percent. Read More
The best technology inventions ever
In this series, we look at everything, large and small, that has changed the way we do things and significantly enhanced our lives. In part eleven, we look at pure technology advances that has helped us in more ways than we could have imagined. Read More
Cloud boosts SAP Brazil results
The ERP giant sees double-digit growth with HANA and Business One Read More
Tech Ticker: Unknown hackers leak details from private email of Putin aide
This week’s headlines: Russia suffers an embarrassing Wikileaks-style hack. Also: Just how “revolutionary” is Apple’s new Touch Bar? An artist describes his week with the new Surface Studio, and some tidbits from the next big Windows 10 update. Read More
Surface Studio and MacBook Pro forge diverging paths to PC productivity
With its sloping screen and on-screen input device usage, Microsoft’s Surface Studio lets us directly manipulate our content. With the Touch Bar, Apple’s new MacBook Pro gets interface clutter out of content’s way. Who’s right? Read More
I’m buying a new MacBook Pro, but the Surface Studio took my breath away
The Surface Studio is breathtaking, brilliant, and the epitome of design perfection. The new MacBook Pro is boring. Jony Ive just got p0wn3d. So why is David Gewirtz buying a new MacBook Pro anyway? Read More
NComputing vSpace Pro 10 review: VDI made easy and affordable
vSpace Pro addresses the pain points of complex and costly hypervisor-based VDI with a much simpler yet still effective alternative that shares desktops on just one Windows OS. Read More
MacBook Pro: AMD lifts lid on GPUs exclusive to Apple’s new 15-inch models
Consumers looking at the new 15-inch MacBook Pro can spend between $100 and $200 extra on beefing up the laptop with AMD’s new Radeon Pro 400 GPUs. Read More
Disney, yes Disney, becomes blockchain’s biggest proponent
Walt Disney Company releases blockchain platform, now what are they going to do with it? Read More