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Fujitsu is spinning off PC and phone divisions as new companies

Japanese electronics company Fujitsu plans to split off its PC and phone divisions and create two new companies (although they’ll be wholly owned subsidiaries). The new PC business is called Fujitsu Client Computing Limited, and the phone business will be known as Fujitsu Connected Technologies Limited. I’ll forgive you if you still want to just refer […]

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Deals of the Day (Christmas Eve 2015)

Looking for a last minute gift? You might not be able to get your package delivered in time for Christmas Day, but a number of retailers are continuing to offer deep discounts on a wide range of products. Here are some of the best deals I could find on December 24th, 2015. Laptops and convertibles […]

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HTC One X9, Samsung Galaxy A9 launch in China

HTC and Samsung both introduced new phones this week that are dressed to the 9s… or at least with the number 9 in their names. The HTC One X9 and the Samsung Galaxy A9 are upper mid-range smartphones with some premium touches. And they’re both launching first in China. It’s unclear if we’ll see either phone […]

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Nexus 5X camera hack adds image stabilization

Google released two Nexus smartphones in 2015: a Nexus 6P with a 5.7 inch screen and a Nexus 5X with a 5.2 inch display. Both ship with Android 6.0 software, Nexus Imprint fingerprint scanners, and high-quality cameras that work well in low-light. But the Nexus 6P also has more RAM and a faster processor than […]

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Deals of the Day (12-23-2015)

The Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro is a convertible notebook with a 13 inch display and a watch-band style hinge that allows the screen to rotate nearly 360 degrees so you can hold the computer like a tablet. Powered by a low-power Intel Core M Broadwell processor, it’s not the highest performance Yoga convertible to date. But […]

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TP-Link to launch a smartphone

TP-Link is a company that produces wireless routers and other networking products and PC accessories, but in early 2016 the company plans to launch something different: a smartphone. TP-Link has announced plans to enter the mobile space by launching the Neffos line of smartphones in February. There aren’t many details about the upcoming phone, but […]

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Windows will block Superfish-style adware starting in April, 2016

Earlier this year Lenovo got in hot water for shipping computers with pre-installed software called Superfish that was designed to replace the ads in websites with, well, other ads. The problem is that it does this by hijacking your internet connection in a way that could pose a security risk and expose your data when you think […]

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Microsoft Surface Hub delayed (again), gets a price hike

It’s been 11 months since Microsoft unveiled the Surface Hub, a new big-screen computer designed to hang on a wall. In June the company said you’d be able to buy a Surface Hub in September for $6,999 and up. That didn’t happen. Microsoft had hoped to ship the Surface Hub in January instead. But now the […]

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Siam 7x is a dual-screen, E Ink phone (twice the price of the Oukitel U6)

Dual-screen smartphones haven’t exactly taken over the world in the past year or two… but the Yotaphone 2 isn’t the only game in town anymore. This summer Chinese phone maker Oukitel unveiled the Oukitel U6. It’s n Android phone with a 5 inch color display on one side and a 4.7 inch E Ink screen […]

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BlackBerry Priv: Fewer than 50 thousand sold?

BlackBerry released its first smartphone running Google Android software this year, and it’s turned a lot of heads since it also happens to be one of the only high-end Android phones with a physical keyboard to launch this year. So how’s that working out for the company? Well, BlackBerry’s latest financial results were better than […]