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Today’s topics include LG’s announcement that its flagship V20 smartphone will run on Android 7.0 Nougat, Microsoft’s plans to eliminate nearly 3,000 Nokia jobs by June 2017, the beginning of the Black Hat USA and DefCon security conferences and Qualcomm’s licensing agreement that will allow GuangDong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications to use Qualcomm’s chips in the […]

According to separate reports citing unnamed sources, private equity groups are either interested in buying some of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s software assets, including Autonomy and Vertica, that HPE is said to be considering shedding or they are looking to buy the giant tech vendor outright for about $40 billion and taking it private. Either direction […]

Today’s topics include Oracle’s proposed purchase of NetSuite in an effort to bolster the company’s cloud presence; BlackBerry’s new ultra-secure Android smartphone, the DTEC50; Microsoft’s plan to launch an education market edition of Windows 10 Pro; and Apple’s announcement that it sold its 1 billionth iPhone. Oracle made another aggressive move to expand its cloud […]

Today’s topics include a government agency’s report that two-factor authentication via SMS is insecure, the United Kingdom’s decision to allow Amazon to test its drone delivery service, the newest addition to IBM’s all-flash storage offerings and Edward Snowden’s idea for a mobile phone case that guards against electronic snooping. While Google has encouraged users to […]

Today’s topics include the release of a preview version of Microsoft’s Upgrade Analytics service, AT&T CEO’s call for a concerted effort to stop robocalls, the release of new graphics technologies from Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, and the discovery that security vulnerabilities persist in Adobe Flash even after the flaws are patched. Microsoft on July […]

Today’s topics include Verizon’s $4.83 billion acquisition of Yahoo’s internet businesses, the Federal Communication Commission chairman’s appeal for efforts to stop robocallers, the resignation of Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg following another poor earnings report, and the newly created company that will market a hyperconverged cloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Microsoft tried seriously to buy Yahoo in its […]

Today’s topics include the rumor that one of Apple’s iPhone 7 models will be its largest smartphone yet, the correction of a manufacturing defect in the Samsung Galaxy S7 Active smartphone, the discovery of a security flaw with the Uber app that proves the worth of bug bounty programs and the completion of the first […]

Today’s topics include claims by French regulators that Microsoft is improperly protecting user data, Samsung is sticking to its claims that its S7 Active phones are waterproof, Corning strengthened Gorilla Glass, and Twitter’s new account verification process. A French regulatory watchdog group has accused Microsoft of collecting “excessive” amounts of data on users and then […]

Today’s topics include Oracle’s release of its largest ever security patch, Blackberry CEO’s explanation as to why the company doesn’t try to regain some of the huge share of smartphone market his company has lost, EMC’s shareholders vote overwhelmingly to approve Dell’s $60 billion buyout of the company, and the preview of Microsoft’s new video […]

Today’s topics include the increase in government demands that Google provide access to user data, Google’s “charm offensive” to retain European customers’ favor despite antitrust charges, the unveiling of a new Samsung Notebook 7 Spin and the latest Apple security updates for OS X and iOS. The United States government and law enforcement agencies continue […]