Don Reisinger

Eve V Uses Open-Source Concepts to Take on Microsoft’s Surface Pro Microsoft’s Surface Pro won’t have the high-end hybrid market all to itself. That’s the pitch the folks behind a new device called the Eve V are making. The Eve V stole the show at Computex last week with an outstanding hybrid design, impressive specifications […]

VC Meeker Observes Big Cloud Growth, Slowing Smartphone Shipments Renowned venture capitalist and securities analyst Mary Meeker released the 2017 edition of her widely read Internet Trends Report May 31 at the Code Conference in Ranchos Palos Verde, California. In the report, she observes that smartphones are a favorite tool for interacting with the internet, […]

AMD, ARM Intel Lead Parade of High-End Chip Designs at Computex 2017 Computex was once one of the most important technology events of the year. Although it’s lost some of its luster in recent years, major computer hardware makers are still attending the event to introduce their latest innovations. This year’s Computex is no different, […]

Andy Rubin Takes Big Step Into Mobile Market With Essential Smartphone Andy Rubin is best known as the founder and creator of Android. But he’s hoping his latest venture, Essential, will redefine that legacy. Essential is a new hardware company that will offer both a high-end smartphone and smart home hub to start. The handset, […]

Siri Speaker, New iPad Pro Rumored as Likely WWDC 2017 Hardware Debuts Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference might have a surprise or two in store this year when it convenes June 5-7. According to several reports, Apple is planning to unveil both a new iPad Pro and a smart home assistant known as the Siri Speaker […]

Google for Jobs Takes Aim at Job Seekers, Work Search Challenges Google is developing a new service called Google for Jobs that’s designed to help people across the U.S. find their next job. But the offering might take down some established job boards in the process. Google for Jobs is a search service that uses […]

Acer’s New Spin 1 Puts a New Twist on Hybrid PCs In the two-in-one hybrid computer market, affordable models with nice features are hard to come by. But Acer is trying to change that with the newly announced Spin 1. The device, which can be used as a tablet and a notebook, has a starting […]

Microsoft Updates Surface Pro With Powerful CPUs, Long Battery Life Just weeks after Microsoft unveiled a new Surface Laptop computer, the company is back at it with a 2-in-1 hybrid Surface Pro that can be used as either a notebook or a tablet. The unit, which replaces the Surface Pro 4 introduced in October 2015, […]

Samsung Designing Galaxy S8 Active With Military-Grade Ruggedness Soon enough, a third high-end Samsung smartphone will join the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ on store shelves. The new handset, the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, has been designed as a more rugged version of the S8 model lineup and is expected to launch before we move […]

Android O, Google Lens Grabbed Most Attention at Google I/O Google I/O demonstrated once again the company’s ability to develop diverse mobile, cloud computing and internet of things products and services. The all-important Android O mobile operating system—already a well-known quantity—was overshadowed by some interesting initiatives. Most interesting was Google Lens, which will enable Android […]

How HPE Designed The Machine to Handle Challenging Big Data Projects After 14 years of research and development, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has unveiled The Machine, which it describes as a supercomputer with 160 TB of main memory. In fact it’s a memory-driven high performance computer, which means it makes memory, not processor chips, the workhorses […]

HTC U11 latest Handset With Hopes of Challenging iPhone, Galaxy S8 HTC’s global smartphone market share has fallen in recent years, but that hasn’t discouraged the mobile devices maker enough to leave the smartphone market. Instead, HTC on May 16 announced the U11, a new high-end handset that will serve as a convincing alternative to […]