Devices

Microsoft just turned the Xbox into a subscription service and will sell it like Apple sells iPhones. Here's how it works: You can pick either a Microsoft Xbox One S or the more po... More

Though Spotify's subscriber base is steadily growing, the average revenue it gets per paying subscriber is shrinking. One of the biggest reasons: family plans. Industry sources tel... More

The company is reportedly planning to launch three new iPhone models, including one with a 6.5-inch display, the largest it has ever included on an iPhone. It will also launch a 5.... More

Despite concerns over brand safety and ad fraud, advertiser expenditure on online video continues to grow rapidly thanks to a boom in mobile consumption and most of that spending i... More

Google Cloud Platform made three additions to its encryption offerings; It's added a managed cloud-hosted hardware security module service, support for asymmetric keys for use with... More

Gartner estimates that 30% of our interactions with technology will be through conversations with smart machines by the end of this year. Now, one in six U.S. adults owns a voice-a... More

Will 5G provide a wireless renaissance for pay-TV cord cutters? US mobile carriers are planning to spend billions in the coming years in the hope that it will.... More

Roughly half of U.S. teens (52%) are taking steps to cut back on their mobile phone use, as well as use of social media (57%) and video games (58%). At least that was the finding o... More

When you mention the growth of technology inside the home, most people think about eyeballs glued to screens and zombie-like attitudes that are devoid of social engagement. And whi... More

Password sharing has been slammed by pay-TV providers as a key driver for the cord-cutting that has hit their business, but a new report published today suggests that amongst Netfl... More

A U.S. college is bringing Amazon's Alexa onto its campus and in force. Saint Louis University will put 2,300 Amazon Echo Dots in dorm rooms by the start of classes later this mont... More

After a period of fits and starts, figures from the U.S. Census Bureau and a powerful second-quarter earnings report from Walmart confirm what we’re hearing anecdotally: that tec... More

Qumulo today announced the availability of Qumulo File Fabric on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, providing enterprises unprecedented choice and flexibility for storing and managing bil... More

The measuring stick for success among the big three gaming companies of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo has long been a question of how many consoles they have sold. But all three hav... More

Over 1 billion connected TV devices are now active globally according to a new report. Strategy Analytics said almost 60% of devices are smart TVs while the remainder are players l... More

What do the world’s most popular virtual assistants — Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Apple’s Siri — have in common? They perform much of the... More

Sales of 81 million for the PlayStation 4 (PS4) have helped push total hardware sales of all generations of the console past the half-billion mark. To commemorate this, Sony is rel... More

Talk of voice shopping’s ascendency may be a little premature. Despite studies showing double-digit growth in “v-commerce,” a new report by tech journal The Information sugge... More

NBCUniversal wants to drive more online audiences to its programming and is eyeing a late fall launch for a new product designed to do just that, multiple sources familiar with the... More

Google has launched a new video app that can only be used by a very select audience: Cameo allows celebrities to record short video responses to the most popular search queries ab... More