Best Buy and Amazon announced an exclusive partnership this morning that will have Best Buy selling Amazon Fire TV Edition smart televisions in its stores, with “more than 10” Fire TV Edition models coming soon from Toshiba and Best Buy’s own Insignia brand. The new TVs will be sold in Best Buy stores, at BestBuy.com, […]
Deals of the Day (4-18-2018)
The first-gen Moto Z may be an aging phone, but it’s still compatible with every MotoMod accessory released to date and with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage, it’s still more powerful than a lot of today’s mid-range phones. It’s also cheaper today… because Newegg is selling an unlocked […]
Opera pulls the plug on its VPN app for Android and iOS
Opera software is probably best known for making web browsers. But over the past few years the company launched a handful of standalone apps including an Opera Max data saver application and an Opera VPN app that took features that first debuted in the company’s web browsers and made them work with third-party apps. Then […]
Chrome 66 released for desktop, Android with autoplay restrictions, security enhancements
Google has released Chrome 66 for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android. Among other things, the update brings experimental support for “site isolation” to a limited set of users, as a way to help protect against Spectre-based attacks. Google says the feature is rolling out as a trial now, but it will eventually be available […]
Lenovo Air 2018 and Lenovo 7000 2018 laptops launch in China
LeLenovo has started selling a few new laptops in China. The Lenovo Air 2018 is a 15.6 inch notebook that measures about 0.66 inches thick and which weighs about 4.3 pounds, while the Lenovo 7000 2018 is a 14 inch model with similar specs that’s 0.78 inches thick and 4.25 pounds. While there’s no word […]
MSI W63 is a 4.2 pound mobile workstation PC
MSI is rolling out a new line of mobile workstation computers, which is a fancy way of saying high-performance laptops with some serious graphics power, among other things. The new lineup includes the 17.3 inch MSI WT75, and WE73 8SK and 8SJ, and the 15.6 inch MSI WE63 8SJ and 8SI. But this is a […]
Report: Apple News subscriptions may be on the horizon
Over the past few years millions of people have switched from buying CDs or even MP3 albums to paying $10 per month for music streaming services like Spotify, Google Play Music Unlimited, and Apple Music. And millions of folks pay a similar price for access to streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix, Hulu, or […]
Reports: Huawei may be giving up on US market due to pressure from Washington
ZTE and Huawei are two of the world’s biggest smartphone makers, but the Chinese companies have been having a hard time breaking into the US market since Congress issued a report warning telecommunications companies not to use ZTE and Huawei products due to national security threats. This week ZTE was dealt another blow when the […]
Deals of the Day (4-17-2018)
With a $35 list price, Google’s Chromecast is already one of the most affordable gadgets for adding smart functionality to a “dumb” TV. Plug it into your TV’s HDMI port and you can use your phone, tablet, PC, or Google Home device to find online videos you want to watch and have them play on […]
Kirin chips likely to remain a Huawei exclusive
While the PC processor market has been dominated by Intel and AMD for the last few decades, there’s a bit more competition in the smartphone and tablet space, where Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and MediaTek all have offerings that are competitive in their own way. Well, sort of. While there are a lot of companies […]