Windows 10 Mobile has barely launched, and Microsoft's former chief executive is already burying it—though in doing so, he may be pointing toward a better way forward for the company. At the Microsoft shareholder conference this week, Bloomberg reporter Dina Bass was in the There really isn’t much news here, just a fraction of a quote:
Toshiba, Fujitsu and Vaio are considering a merger of their laptop PC businesses, according to a Japanese media report.
Aiming to kill the thousands of germs that live on your smartphone and make some money from germophobes, Japan's Kyocera has developed a phone that can be washed with regular hand soap. The phone, which will go on sale on Dec. 11, can be washed with conventional foaming hand soap of the type found in many kitchens, according to the manufacturer. Of course, soap can be used to clean just about any smartphone currently on the market and waterproof phones are easier to clean, but many won't stand up to repeated rinses with soap and water. That's where this new phone differs. On Thursday, cellular carrier KDDI released a video showing the phone falling into the tomato ketchup sitting on top of a plate of Om Rice, a Japanese kids favorite made from egg and rice.
Uber is trying to help you avoid that awkward moment when you into the wrong car. The ride-sharing company will start testing a color-coded “Spot” lighting system that promises to “light your way to a smoother pickup.” As part of Spot, Uber cars in Seattle will start flashing a color LED light near the windshield that will match the color on your smartphone. This is how it works: After you hail a ride on the Uber app, you will be asked to choose one of the six colors. When your ride arrives, the LED light will glow in that chosen color. Then you can press and hold the color on your smartphone to light up your screen so the driver can identify you as the correct pickup.
Have you ever wanted to give someone a virtual tour of your living room? Now you can offer them an immersive experience with Google’s new Google’s Cardboard Camera offers a few example experiences right off the bat.
Printer maker Epson just revealed a new machine that spits out pages at a stunning rate of 14 per minute. Wait! Don't stop reading yet. That pace only sounds bad when we’re talking about printers. This behemoth isn’t printing paper—its making it, from materials you'd otherwise toss in the trash. The company recently announced PaperLab, the world’s first in-office paper recycling system, as
In just a little over four weeks we’ll welcome in 2016 and bid adieu to the year that was. That means it’s time for Microsoft and Google to share break out the top searches of the year and show what caught the world’s attention in 2015. First: Microsoft’s top Bing searches of 2015. Microsoft divvied up its search lists by celebrities, sports, and news to provide a more granular look at the information we collectively sought out in 2015. Here are some of the highlights. Women’s sports gripped the world in 2015, according to Bing. During the summer, the U.S. women’s national soccer team went on a tear to win the FIFA Women’s World Cup with a 5-2 victory over Japan in the final.
If you keep a lot of programs running at the same time, or if you have pinned a lot of them to the taskbar, that row of icons at the bottom of the screen will overflow. You won’t be able to see all of them. One obvious solution is to close some of those programs. This will clear the taskbar and improve performance. Shutting down your PC in the evening and booting fresh in the morning will help. But if you have to keep all those programs running, there are some other solutions.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers heard arguments over a bill that has garnered passionate support from Microsoft but been Known as the
With full manual controls and dual front-facing camera, you can really express your creativity with the V10.
Google says it wants to accelerate the growth of its mobile experiment in the new year, but it may need more phones and a tablet or two for a wider reach.
HP’s formula for its new Spectre x2 is pretty simple: Clone the look and feel of Microsoft’s popular Surface and sell at a price that heavily undercuts it. But the result is actually a lot more nuanced. By clone, I mean most people who see the Surface—err, Spectre x2 will actually think it's a The Clone Wars: The Spectre 12 x2 is 8mm thin and 1.78 pounds. With its keyboard, it’ll push 13.2mm and weight 2.7 lbs.