A premium Xbox 360 costs about $250. An Xbox One, about $350. And with Comcast’s new 2-gigabit Internet services, you’ll be paying right in the middle. Every month. Comcast will charge $299.95 per month for its 2Gb symmetrical service (2 Gb/s down, 2 Gb/s up) on its
Amazon is doing its best to jack up sales by inventing a new shopping holiday, but one thing it hasn’t invented is a new idea. The e-commerce giant is trying to get people pumped up about Prime Day this Wednesday, but its only the latest example of a company manufacturing a “holiday” for the sole purpose of selling stuff. Online retailers jumped on this about 10 years ago by capitalizing on “cyber Monday.” Timed as the Monday immediately following Thanksgiving, it attempts to extend brick-and-mortar “black Friday” shopping fever to online stores and has proved to be very successful. Most estimates put 2014 “cyber Monday” sales in the range of US$2 billion.
Businesses eagerly awaiting Microsoft’s mammoth Surface Hub will have to wait a bit longer, as Microsoft said it plans to delay production past the original September 1 launch date. Microsoft said it was preparing for “production at a broader scale,” part of a plan to widen the distribution of its desktop Surface tablets from a few hundred to a few thousand across the world in the coming months. Microsoft said it would provide an updated timetable for Surface Hub production at the end of August. Microsoft
While AMD’s beastly, recently released
A number of recent Microsoft apps, like Sway and Delve, have sought to meld the features of various pieces of Office software. The company’s new Project Gigjam, though, goes a bit further: It customizes a version of itself to help Microsoft’s business customers collaborate. On the surface, Gigjam looks like a screen-sharing application, where employees can work together to help share information. But Gigjam can pull data from multiple applications into a shared workspace, sharing all or parts of it with employees. That’s the nature of work, according to chief executive Satya Nadella: “How do we do something like that task as opposed into going into each application.”
Now more than ever, leaving Adobe Flash Player on your system is looking like a dubious proposition. While Flash has long been
The Windows 10 global roll out is just over two weeks away and Microsoft is starting to share some of its retail plans for the big launch on To encourage upgrading in-store, Microsoft created programs with major retailers around the world to help put Windows 7 and 8 in the proverbial rear-view mirror. In the U.S., stores like Best Buy, Staples, and Wal-Mart will offer support services for help with upgrading and data migration to new PCs.
Be patient. Diagnosing a network can be one of the most frustrating chores in the tech world. If the simple steps below don't work, we have a more detailed When your PC (or other device) can’t access your Wi-Fi network, you have to find out where the problem is—your laptop or your router. So the first thing you need to do is test the network without the laptop. Try another computer—or any device that uses Wi-Fi, such as a smartphone or tablet. If that other PC or device can access your Wi-Fi, the problem is with your laptop.
A hot new phone with killer specs is great, but OnePlus needs to turn around its business practices if it's going to be successful.