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Google’s Android mobile operating system has declined in terms of market share in the most lucrative market in the world yet again. According to data released by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the period ending November 2016 saw Android’s market share decline in key markets including Great Britain, France and Australia. The good news for Android is that its…
It’s official. Amazon’s Alexa, the world’s current superstar virtual assistant, is now going into the heart of the automobile business with two major deals – with Ford, and now, with Volkswagen, as part of their connected car efforts. Just this week we reported that Alexa’s voice and talents will go into a special 2017 line-up from…
Another “world’s first” from the house of LG: a super-thin “wallpaper” TV called LG OLED W that is so thin and light that it can attach to your wall just using magnets. LG’s LG Signature OLED W super-thin wallpaper model of television sets is the latest CES 2017 unveiling from the South Korean electronics giant. At…
There are two big reasons why Microsoft Windows failed in the mobile arena the first time around. They were late to realize that Apple had stepped up the smartphone game by several notches, and they tried to compete with Google’s Android that had the backing of a vast and deep talent pool represented by the open source community. They…
In February, 2016 WhatsApp announced on its blog that it would no longer support BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40 and Nokia Symbian S60 devices after the end of the year. The Facebook-owned messenger app recently updated that blog post to say that they are extending support for these phones to June 30, 2017. The move is…
By the end of 2016, Cyanogen Inc., the company that commercialized CyanogenMod and was the force behind the open source mobile operating system Cyanogen OS, will be no more. Though not directly linked to the event, the move comes after key client OnePlus decided to switch to its own home-grown Oxygen OS for its smartphones….
PC sales have been declining steadily over the past four years. There was some expectation around PC sales stabilizing this year as Microsoft’s Windows revenue and Intel’s Client Computing Group’s revenue started showing signs of strength in the last few quarters, but that proved to be a false alarm as PC sales continued to…
Microsoft’s new business mantra seems to be “If we can’t do it, let’s just find someone who can.” The Redmond tech giant announced a new partnership bringing global navigation and mapping company TomTom to integrate location-based services into their cloud platform Microsoft Azure, to power applications in IoT (Internet of Things) that need to…
According to a Lenovo executive who confirmed this to Tom’s Guide, next year there will be a Lenovo Yoga Book with a Chrome OS option. The details aren’t known at this point, but it’s straight from the horse’s mouth that Chrome OS will, in fact, come to the Yoga Book 2017 from Lenovo. Lenovo is…
If Microsoft India’s current performance in cloud infrastructure is a microcosm of the company’s future, than that future looks extremely good for a company that is moving at a mind-numbing speed to get out of the shadows of its Windows-focused past. In the last five years (2012-2016) Microsoft India’s revenue has grown from a mere…
Xbox is one of Microsoft’s major products, and the lynchpin of Microsoft’s gaming enterprise. Launched in 2001, the console has been in the market for nearly 15 years and is still going strong. According to estimates by VGChartz, PS4 – the market leader – sold 14.97 million units in the U.S., the Xbox One 13.40…
Microsoft this week announced that starting Monday, December 5, 2016, the company will offer 12 days of Microsoft deals offered at local Microsoft Stores, and if you want to grab any of the deals online you can head over to microsoftstore.com until December 16. The last day for guaranteed delivery by Dec. 24 is Wednesday,…
As part of a larger ongoing effort to eliminate plugin-based content from Google Chrome, the browser is now defaulting to HTML5 for most websites. The death bell has been rung for Flash content and other types of plugin-based web content, and HTML5 is gradually taking over. In May this year Google announced its intent to phase…
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Data Group, Joseph Sirosh, wrote on the company’s official Azure blog about how the company is moving from “A PC on every desktop” to “deep learning in every software”. Though the statement might seem a bit loaded, it does sum things up about the direction in which Microsoft, a company…
There’s now confirmation that Google will push the Android 7.1.1 Nougat update to Nexus 6 smartphones on December 6, a little more than a week from today. The fact that the “final” beta was released this past week, it’s very likely that the date is accurate. Vodafone Australia has already published details of the update on its…
