Don Reisinger

Google I/O Buzz Focuses on New Android Version, Mysterious Fuchsia OS These are busy days for software developers who attended Microsoft Build May 10-12 and are now turning their attention to Google’s annual I/O conference. The show, which will convene May 17, will likely focus prominent Google platforms such as Android and Chrome OS. Google […]

‘Flagship Killer’ Features OnePlus Is Building Into Its Next Smartphone In the smartphone market, there’s one company that’s billing itself as the “flagship killer”—Chinese handset maker OnePlus. Now the boutique smartphone maker is dropping big hints that another one of its highly regarded handsets is on the way. This one, dubbed the OnePlus 5, will […]

HP Elite X2: 10 Things to Consider Before Buying the Hybrid If recent market research on tablets shows anything, it’s that two-in-one hybrids—devices that can act both as tablets and notebooks—are proving exceedingly popular. A number of PC makers see that trend and are investing heavily in the technology. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that […]

10 Features We Want to See in Apple Watch Series 3 Amid all the recent talk of iPhones and iPads, the Apple Watch is in focus following reports that Apple has acquired a small sleep-tracking startup called Beddit. The acquisition, which was not announced by either company, is rumored to be part of a broader […]

10 Things to Know About New Amazon Echo Show Smart-Home Hub The smart-home battle is ramping up with Amazon’s announcement of the Echo Show, a new smart-home hub. The device, which is expected to launch in June, is the first smart-home hub to come with a built-in screen. The screen provides contextual information based on […]

10 Ways an Apple Smart Home Hub Could Compete With Amazon Echo The smart-home hub market has been heating up of late with talk of updates to the Amazon Echo as well as a possible Apple competitor that could be unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June. According to KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi […]

Microsoft Build 2017: Windows, Mixed Reality and More It’s developer conference season, and Microsoft is set to host its applications creators at Build. The event will, as always, focus on Windows, but there’s much more the company is expected to discuss. For instance, Microsoft has been investing heavily in the cloud and is rumored to […]

China’s TCL Takes a Shot at Selling a BlackBerry Branded Smartphone Chinese mobile device maker TCL is trying to do something BlackBerry hasn’t done in a decade, make money selling a BlackBerry branded smartphone. TCL is preparing to introduce the BlackBerry KeyOne, a smartphone it announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last February. The […]

How Microsoft Is Positioning the Surface Laptop in Features, Price Microsoft is taking a rather curious approach to trying to win back sales in the education market for Chromebooks. On May 2 it introduced the Surface Laptop, which comes with a 13-inch screen and runs on Microsoft’s new Chrome OS alternative Windows 10 S. With […]

10 Tips and Tricks to Get Up to Speed With Slack Collaboration App Slack, the team collaboration application, has become a new option for companies and workgroups to communicate and share ideas. In October, the company announced that it now has more than 4 million daily users and 1.25 million companies paying for its service. […]

Microsoft Rolls Out Windows 10 S, Surface Laptop to Win School Sales Microsoft held a press event in New York City May 2 to introduce new products designed mainly to serve the education market. The focus of the show was the introduced of Windows 10 S that’s a stripped-down version designed to compete with Google’s […]

New ZTE Max XL Smartphone Delivers Higher-End Features at a Low Price The Android mobile device market is becoming increasingly crowded with big-screen smartphones, and ZTE Max XL is the latest. It comes with a 6-inch screen, making it slightly larger than the 5.8-inch Samsung Galaxy S8 and just a tad smaller than the 6.2-inch […]