Google rubs in tech-superiority over watch tech
Allows fanboys to defect
Search engine outfit Google is offering Apple fanboys a way to get a proper smartwatch without losing the only product that Jobs’ Mob makes – the iPhone.
Lenovo sentences Motorola brand to death
Moto will go on
Lenovo has decided that it will stop using the Motorola name for its phones in 2016 killing off the venerable brand name.
Quarter of all Android phones to get pressure sensitive screens
Apple had them now everyone else will want them
Dispite the fact that no one was interested in pressure sensitive touch phones until Apple released the iPhone 6S this year. HIS believes that many big names including Samsung, Sony and Xiaomi phones are suddenly going to discover the feature which has been part of Android since the beginning.
Qualcomm lands lots of orders next year
14nm FinFET LPP Snapdragon 820 saved its bacon
Qualcomm appears to have had a sudden rash of orders for its chips, leading some to speculate that might be the reason the outfit did not try to hive off its chip business.
Firefox windows finally gets 64-bit
Mozilla wakes up
Mozilla has finally delivered a 64-bit version of Firefox.
Apple iPhone losing ground to Android
The dream is over
For a while now we have been warning that Apple is losing ground in pretty much all its business sectors but now it seems some figures are confirming it.
Microsoft gets PCs and phone udates lined up
More updates coming
Software giant Microsoft has finally managed to link its PC windows with Mobile and now both will be updated at the same time.
Android inventor planning smartphone business
Return to the industry
The bloke credited with inventing Android is about to get back into the mobile industry with a smartphone company of his own.
Tablet doom will harm Android
Microsoft should be happy
Beancounters at IDC claim that the decline of tablets will harm Android but prop up the windows operating system
Ballmer says Windows should support Android apps
Quietly commenting on the side lines
The shy and retired former Microsoft CEO Steve “there is a kind of hush” Ballmer has suggested that his former company has called for Redmond to make its windows software run android apps.