Ten years ago, the world got its hands on the very first iPhone. On Tuesday, we got our hands on the 10th annual upgrade to that historic machine: the hotly awaited, gorgeous, shockingly expensive iPhone X. (You pronounce it “iPhone 10”—that’s a Roman numeral.) The iPhone X is all screen; there’s no more empty slab of black […]
Lowell McAdam, Verizon Communications chairman and CEO, speaks to CNBC’s David Faber about the company’s rollout of 5G network technology.
Western Digital (WDC) shares fell Wednesday following news that Toshiba will sell a prized chip unit to a rival group led by Bain Capital and Korea-based SK Hynix. XAutoplay: On | OffThe deal, announced by Toshiba late Tuesday, is a blow to Western Digital, which spent months negotiating and wrangling with Toshiba to acquire the […]
New privacy regulations put in place by the European Union could benefit internet users in the U.S. (REUTERS/Francois Lenoir) A massive European Union regulation going into effect next May could deliver an unexpected benefit on the other side of the Atlantic: letting you take your data from social networks that today don’t let you download […]
It’s tough out there for a new phone, but if anyone has a chance at releasing one that grabs people’s attention, it’s Andy Rubin. In September 2008, Rubin’s team at Google (GOOG, GOOGL) launched Android, the wildly successful mobile operating system now running on more than 85% of smartphones worldwide. Unlike Apple’s (AAPL) walled-garden approach to its […]
AMD’s stock price is on the rise as reviews of the company’s new Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64 graphics cards are released. Shares are up 4.05% on Monday, the same day the cards were released. The cards are currently sold out on Newegg, and only a few units are still available on Amazon, though they are […]
Google was fined $2.7 billion by the European Commission, but even that can’t hurt the search giant. (image: AFP) More Europe is once again mad at Google, but this time European regulators’ angst comes with a serious price tag: a €2.42 billion, or about $2.73 billion, fine to punish the Alphabet, Inc. (GOOG, GOOGL), subsidiary for pushing its […]
Change is good. It’s, as the cliché goes, the only constant. But change is also hard. And the hardest kind of change, outside of my transformation from obnoxiously dressed teen to a just plain obnoxious man-child, is changing the kind of smartphone you use. I’m not talking about going from an old iPhone to a new iPhone; I’m […]
The back-to-school shopping season is just around the corner, and Microsoft (MSFT) is hoping its new Surface Laptop will be the computer you or your child brings to the classroom. Starting at $999, the Surface Laptop is Microsoft’s attempt to fight back against the growing popularity of Google’s (GOOG, GOOGL) low-cost Chromebooks and Apple’s (AAPL) own MacBook line. It’s a beautiful, lightweight […]
Canadian telecommunications firm Cogeco Communications Inc. jumped the most in three months after agreeing to buy MetroCast from Harron Communications LP for $1.4 billion, increasing its U.S. footprint with its largest deal ever. MetroCast’s cable networks cover 236,000 homes and business in New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania and Virginia and are in faster-growing and higher-income communities than Cogeco’s existing U.S. […]
China’s government has told telecommunications carriers to block individuals’ access to virtual private networks by Feb. 1, people familiar with the matter said, thereby shutting a major window to the global internet. Beijing has ordered state-run telecommunications firms, which include China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, to bar people from using VPNs, services that skirt censorship restrictions by […]
A new company makes AI software in use at a handful of police departments. Can it make law enforcement more transparent? There’s a story Brett Goldstein likes to tell. It starts on a Friday night in 2010 with him sitting in a darkened Crown Victoria on a Chicago street, poring over maps. Goldstein was a […]
