Devices

Futuristic-looking bendable tablets and smartphones have captured our imagination for years. Whether it’s the folding tablets found in Westworld or the many book-like slates with... More

Technology giants are trying to bring to videogames the same streaming capabilities that gave rise to Netflix and Spotify, a transformational leap that could usher in a new wave of... More

There’s a perfect storm brewing for the upcoming holiday selling season. But this one, fueled by low-unemployment, rising income, high consumer confidence and a tech-hungry shopp... More

Long-term, operators will have to figure out what their customers want and how to deploy the business model best. Right now, some ideas for VR deployment include offering VR as a t... More

Apple has revealed it passed a major milestone with 100 million active Mac users in the world. Apple CEO Tim Cook added that more than half (51 per cent) of the users are new to Ma... More

Apple’s 5G iPhone will come to market in 2020, a source with knowledge of Apple’s plans says. Apple plans to use Intel’s 8161 5G modem chip in its 2020 phones. Intel hopes to... More

A slew of updates for Microsoft’s Mixer video streaming service starts to go live today for what the company is calling Season 2 of the service. Those updates include new ways fo... More

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Apple is using its latest spec-busting hardware to appeal to hard-core gamers who actually care about such things. Except the world's most ... More

Amazon, Apple, and Google are investing billions to make voice recognition the main way we communicate with the Internet. It will be the biggest technology shift since Steve Jobs l... More

Just about everything you hear about 5G points out how its higher data speeds will let you download videos or update your apps much more quickly. Well, whoop-de-do. Faster data is ... More

Disney and Random House have teamed up with Google to add an interactive soundtrack to their Little Golden Books series of children’s books. Owners of a Google Home smart speaker... More

Apple’s is heavily reliant on its popular iPhone — but the tech giant hasn’t forgotten about its iPads and Mac computers. Now it’s looking to reinvigorate those product lin... More

Two flavors of high-speed 5G cellular service are about to become available — home broadband and mobile — but a new 1,000-consumer survey by consulting firm PwC suggests that c... More

AT&T said this week that it has begun beta testing a streaming media device with plans for expanded trials in the first half of 2019. That begs the question: why? The box is a wire... More

AWS Elemental has announced its MediaLive video processing service is now able to deal with live channels that have inputs with matching embedded timecodes and produce synchronised... More

Consumer demand for smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home and the convenience that comes with them continues to push traditional radio further into the digital world, acc... More

Few consumer tech categories change quite as rapidly as video games. New gaming consoles hit store shelves every five to eight years, while other ways to play emerge at an even fas... More

Amazon is taking the lion’s share of smart speaker usage, but there’s still ample opportunity for other brands, according to new research. Amazon accounts for 63 percent of sma... More

Facebook’s VR subsidiary Oculus is shutting down its VOD efforts on is Oculus Rift headset this week, and is reimbursing anyone who has bought titles in the past. Oculus told Rif... More

Apple's Search Ad business could generate over $500 million in revenue this year and quadruple that to $2 billion by 2020, Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi claims. If correct, the... More