BlackBerry’s Deal with Ford is All About QNX in SYNC 3 October 31, 2016 - Written By On Monday, BlackBerry announced its first ever partnership with a major auto maker, and that was with Ford. Who is just across the border from BlackBerry in Dearborn, Michigan. This is a software deal for…

Google’s new Pixel-branded smartphones have proven to be a little too popular. Already, Google stated that pre-order demands had exceeded the company’s expectations, and now the company is trying to make up for shipping delays by offering affected customers $50 Play Store credits as an apology. In…

Just hours after releasing iOS 10.1.1, Apple has published the first beta of iOS 10.2 to its developer portal. Developers are often provided with an early preview of an upcoming software update in order to ensure compatibility between apps and any changes Apple has made. According to Apple news site…

Image Source: Marek Weidlich Nearly every other big phone brand has toyed with the idea of wireless charging by this point, but Apple has stood loyal by its (very expensive) cables. According to a new report, that could all change next year. a trade publication well known in the business side of…

A Vine screen grab from “Why you always lyin’?” This summer, I thumbed past an Instagram photo of a familiar-looking young man with silken brown skin and an enviable high-top fade dressed up in an azure suit. I lingered for a moment, slightly verklempt. I knew him, or, at least, I felt as if I did,…

Above: A Toyota Prius Prime is seen during the media preview of the 2016 New York International Auto Show in Manhattan, New York, U.S. March 23, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File photo (Reuters) – Engineers at Toyota say they have tamed volatile lithium-ion battery technology, and can now safely…

Google’s Halloween doodle arrived a day early this morning – giving trick-or-treaters extra time to beat Google’s Magic Cat Academy game that now resides on the homepage. Players are instructed to draw simple shapes on the screen to scare away ghosts creeping toward Momo, the cat-magician casting…

Like some kind of 21st century Willy Wonka, audacious entrepreneur Elon Musk chose a prime spot on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot tour to unveil his latest attempt to energize an industry — roofs that generate solar power but look like no other. Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors and…

Apple and Microsoft both held big hardware events this week, unveiling a few new devices like the new MacBook Pro and the Surface Studio. Twitter announced it is shutting down Vine and laying off 9% of the company. Oh, and AT&T is acquiring Time Warner for a whole lot of money. These are the top…

Apple unveiled its new line of MacBooks yesterday, but for customers in the UK the announcement brought some unpleasant surprises: a price bump across the board for Apple products. Not only are the new MacBook Pro laptops hundreds of pounds more expensive than previous generations, but while Apple…

Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported rising third-quarter profit Thursday, extending a streak of strength as users spend more time on smartphones and advertisers spend more to reach them there. Alphabet said net income rose 27% to $5.06 billion, or $7.25 a share, from $3.98 billion, or $5.73 a…

Enlarge Microsoft In all the discussion of virtual reality over the last couple of years, one company with a strong presence in both PC and console gaming has been conspicuously absent: Microsoft. Microsoft owns the PC platform that the high-end VR headsets (Facebook's Oculus Rift, HTC's Vive) run…

Amazon.com Inc. posted its lowest quarterly profit in a year as it invested heavily to meet consumer demand for more orders delivered faster. The online retail giant said Thursday that opening new warehouses and shipping items with shorter delivery times caused its costs to soar in the third…

Apple really did think different about its new laptops. The sheer number of big-picture changes to the iconic laptop line made my head spin during an exclusive hands-on preview of Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops at the company's Cupertino, California headquarters earlier this week. While Apple kept…

Óscar Gutiérrez/CNET Alongside the new MacBook Pro models today, Apple announced not new Apple TV hardware, but a seemingly small yet important software upgrade for the Apple TV. It's an app, simply called TV . This new application replaces the two existing applications, Movies and TV Shows , and…

Microsoft’s Windows 10 Creators Update event , which was held on Wednesday, was full of software and hardware announcements aimed at creative professionals. The Surface Studio served as the most dramatic new product, offering up a pricey but groundbreaking new machine for anyone who works with…

AMD has shared some technical details on the new Radeon Pro graphics cards included in the 15-inch MacBook Pro models, giving some insight into their performance and the differences between the three options. The Radeon Pro 400 Series Graphics are built on AMD's Polaris architecture and are…

Jerome Jarre hasn't posted on Vine in more than a year. The 26-year-old goofy Frenchman once ruled the six-second looping video platform, where he drew in millions of viewers with clips of him walking up to unsuspecting strangers and saying, "I love you." But by 2014, he was already doing similar…

We use the Surface Studio. Video by Jennifer Hahn NEW YORK—Microsoft has built a really strange computer. As a piece of design, there's a lot to like about the Surface Studio. There's no avoiding the fact that its screen, a custom built 28 inch 4500×3000 unit that's barely more than a centimeter…

Apple plans on unveiling its own version of a TV guide tomorrow during its Mac hardware event in Cupertino, California, according to Recode . The software will live on top of the Apple TV streaming box, as well as an app on iOS devices, to let users easily search and find shows and movies across a…

Google’s new flagship Pixel XL phone landed in my hands early Monday morning, and I’ve been taking it for a test drive ever since. I’m obviously someone who prefers Apple devices over Google devices, but this phone is so fascinating that I just had to try it. I should note that this isn’t a review —…

Samsung 's third quarter went down in flames. The Korean electronics giant had pinned its hopes on the Galaxy Note 7 , a phone it expected to help its rebound in the mobile market. Indeed, Samsung expected to post a modest increase in its operating profit compared with the same period last year.…

Tech Wearable by Ashley Carman @ashleyrcarman Oct 26, 2016, 8:00p Emporio Armani Emporio Armani has realized even people with expensive taste want connected devices. The fashion company partnered with Fossil to launch its first hybrid connected watch this week, called the EA Connected Watch . The…

Late last week, 100,000 compromised connected gadgets helped anonymous attackers launch a massive and sustained DDoS attack . Malware called Mirai took control of the devices to direct large amounts of traffic , potentially as much as 1.2 Tbps , at Dyn, a DNS service provider that routes traffic…

Competes with: Buick Encore, Mazda CX-3, Fiat 500X Looks like: A slightly larger, yet still proportional, Countryman Drivetrain: 134-horsepower, turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder with front- or all-wheel drive; 189-hp, turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder with front- or all-wheel drive;…

Bad news if you’re one of the many people waiting to get your hands on Apple’s new AirPods: they won’t be ready this month. Apple previously promised a ‘late October’ release timeframe for the new wireless earbuds. Apple broke the news to TechCrunch with the following statement: “The early response…

Its beautiful display and intriguing peripherals grab your attention, but this is more workstation than PC. Credit: Mark Hachman Microsoft’s Surface Studio charges aggressively into territory once held by Apple, combining an elegant design, a massive, lovely display, and an eye-popping price tag. We…

Google Fiber boxes rest on a sofa in the home of Becki Sherwood November 27, 2012 in Kansas City, Kansas. Sherwood's neighborhood is the first to receive Google Fiber. "It's exciting. It is faster. I am basically paying the same amount for better service," Sherwood said. "I am telling all my friends…

When Google co-founder Larry Page created Alphabet Inc., he gave three primary reasons: free up the main internet business from its costly "moonshot" projects; turn those audacious experiments into real businesses; and keep entrepreneurial leaders from leaving. Fifteen months later, that third…

The heyday of Apple's lights-out iPhone growth has passed. Since introducing the hugely popular iPhone 6 two years ago, the tech giant has labored to spark the intense consumer passion it has counted on to make the iPhone an even-better seller year after year. Apple is still struggling to reignite…

In a new Facebook Live show launched Monday night, Donald Trump's campaign painted a rosy picture of the election in just two weeks, with campaign manager Kellyanne Conway even saying "unequivocally" that "we will win." Her interviewers were two of the GOP nominee's campaign advisers Boris Epshteyn…

Next year, Apple is expected to release a completely redesigned iPhone 8 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the original iPhone. Following three consecutive years of seeing the same design reused in the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone 7, Apple is expected to make dramatic changes to the appearance…

Attendees gather around display tables to view the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone during a launch event in August in New York City. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images The X-ray and CT scans showed a pronounced bulge. After reports of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones catching fire spread in early September,…

(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) AT&T's $85.4 billion megadeal to acquire Time Warner is an unprecedented bid to diversify the telecom giant as network operators nationwide scramble to marry their communications pipes with exclusive content. For many of these firms, it's no longer enough to be the…

This file photo taken on September 11, 2013 shows the logo of social networking website 'Twitter' displayed on a computer screen in London. Twitter was one of the website impacted by Friday's attacks. (Photo: LEON NEAL, AFP/Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO — Technology experts warned for years that the…

A map of the areas experiencing problems, as of Friday afternoon, according to downdetector.com . SAN FRANCISCO — Major websites were inaccessible to some East Coast users in the United States Friday morning and to people across the country in the early afternoon after a company that serves as an…

(Photo: Netflix) If you live on the East Coast and had trouble accessing Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Amazon or Reddit Friday morning, you were not alone. A large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) on Internet performance company Dyn brought many popular sites to a standstill. The…

A building on the Microsoft Campus Credit: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images for Microsoft Microsoft's ongoing move to the cloud paid off once again over the past quarter, as strong growth from Azure and Office 365 offset declines in the PC market. The company announced on Thursday that its quarterly…