Devices

Articles extolling the virtues of Chromebooks almost always mention that they have become powerful enough to handle everything most people do with a computer outside of power-hungr... More

The worldwide smart home devices market is forecasted to ship roughly 549.5 million devices by the end of the year, according to the latest data from IDC. If achieved, that would r... More

It’s never too early to start thinking about the holiday shopping season. Typically by now, the retail community is well into the holiday shopping mood, prepping their warehouses... More

There’s a shake-up – and a scandal – in the Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The U.S. has retaken first place in the Top500 list after five years... More

The upcoming audio push builds on Apple’s earlier success in the field. The iPod and iTunes digital music store helped revive the industry and began a transformation that turned ... More

AI is not a new concept, nor are the math fundamentals underpinning it. But for AI to “eat software” and become truly useful it needs hardware: processors and chips fast and st... More

Industry analysts predict that apparel fitted with intelligent agent technology is where the greatest opportunities lie for the wearable technology market. Smart clothing is just s... More

They came for Snapchat. Now they’re gunning for YouTube with hour-long video. The influencers are stoked.... More

Roku plans to launch a marketplace for video subscription services in the coming months, which will allow consumers to sign up for and watch subscription services without the need ... More

NBC has brought its sports app to PlayStation 4, which is splendid news for gamers who are also mad about soccer. There's a certain convenience in playing Fortnite and being able t... More

Working under the auspices of international standards organization 3GPP, the mobile industry today confirmed that it has achieved a critical milestone in the race to bring 5G netwo... More

The number of connected Smart TVs in the United States has increased more than 300% since 2014, as consumers continue to choose watching streaming video from an SVOD service or fro... More

From a strictly economical perspective, ditching seat-back screens in favor of fliers streaming content on their personal devices is a good move. Just one seat-back screen costs ro... More

Do you like podcasts? Me too. It’s sort of nuts to imagine a time before podcasts, right? Podcasts are the future. Podcasts podcasts podcasts. You know who’s not sold on podcas... More

The number of U.S. TV homes with at least one internet-connected TV device continues to swing upward, Leichtman Research Group found in a new study. Some 74% of those homes have at... More

When you hear ‘digital transformation’ what comes to mind? Maybe it’s things going from paper to digital. Maybe it’s automated cars. What about robots? The possibilities ar... More

You probably don’t watch videos or play games in virtual reality now, but that could change very soon. By 2022, there will be over 55 million active VR headsets in the US, PwC pr... More

In a move to stitch its smart home tech with video streaming, Amazon introduced the Fire TV Cube, a 4K-capable streaming device that also supports the company’s voice-based Alexa... More

At Apple’s WWDC 2018 — an event some said would be boring this year with its software-only focus and lack of new MacBooks and iPads — the company announced what may be its mo... More

While 5G is still an estimated two years out from deployment, its tremendous effect on the consumer electronics industry is already readily accepted. As with previous next-gen wire... More