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Apple Brings Back That 4-Inch Feeling

The iPad Pro's price point seems a bit just too high for the average consumer, said Joe Silverman, owner of New York Computer Help "It is certainly a beautiful piece of art, but not everyone can afford Picasso," he said....

Reviled People-Rating App Slithers Into Action

For Peeple, the idea of "Yelp for people" is both a selling point and a turnoff, QuietKit's Turner said. While everyone likes to highlight and honor truly stellar individuals, the down-voting of average Joes and Janes will bring continued criticism of the app "While it would b...

Epic Games Founder Rails Against Microsoft’s Walled Garden

Sweeney is chastising Microsoft, but Apple has its own ecosystem, remarked Joe Silverman, owner ofNew York Computer Help "Just like Apple, if Microsoft users want to find an app, they go to the Windows store," he told TechNewsWorld. "Microsoft is just trying to compete more wi...

Windows 10 Gains on 7, Inch by Inch

Windows 8, and the Metro tiles it brought with it, turned a lot of people off, but people seem to appreciate the Windows 10 interface, according to Joe Silverman, owner ofNew York Computer Help "Windows 10 was well-reviewed by our technicians and customers in regard to its int...

ESPN Boss Sees Significant Role for Sling TV

"Sling TV is adding users to ESPN," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst atThe Diffusion Group "In the past, these users would have had ESPN anyway via a traditional pay-TV subscription," he told the E-Commerce Times....

Reading, Writing and Minecraft?

"Working with the MinecraftEDU creators Joel Levin and Santeri Koivisto, we started with all the learnings from the EDU edition, and built its key features into the Minecraft: Education Edition," the company said. "We also added new features including login and personalization, the student portfolio feature, a second screen experience for teachers, and the ability to save student progress."

YouTube Reveals 4K HDR and 360-Degree Video Support at CES

"YouTube's adoption of new technologies, which also includes VR, is important to the overall ecosystem," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst atThe Diffusion Group "Device companies have to have YouTube app support on their platforms, so in this sense it's a big positive," he to...

Alibaba May Have to Handle SCMP With Kid Gloves

"The South China Morning Post is unique because it focuses on coverage of China in the English language," said Joe Tsai, executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group. "This is a proposition that is in high demand by readers around the world who care to understand the world's second largest economy."

T-Mobile Sets Hulu Lure to Snag Verizon Customers

"Hulu is very much responding to go90," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst atThe Diffusion Group. "That service is Hulu-esque, and its content is meant to appeal to the millennial audience." While go90 is available across all the carriers, it is seen as a Verizon service, whic...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

‘Tis the Season for Online Predators

"There's been an uptick of extortion against businesses. It's something that has a lot of momentum to it," said Joe Loveless, senior security services manager atNeustar "These are rogue organizations that contact businesses and say, 'Pay us X amount in bitcoin and we won't att...

Security Certificate Issues Plague Dell

Dell publicly thanked three users who brought the flaw to their attention -- Hanno Bock, Joe Nord and Kevin Hicks, aka "rotocowboy." Nord first discovered the flaw last weekend, in a Dell Inspiron 5000 series notebook purchased last month. ...

UHD TV – What’s the Damage?

UHD "TVs do use more energy" than standard HDTVs, "but still less than TVs used to," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst atThe Diffusion Group "This is kind of a nonissue at the moment as energy costs are also down," he told TechNewsWorld....

Have You Started Your Black Friday Shopping Yet?

"Amazon's going to pull lots of other multiproduct retailers forward in offering deals, both online and in-store, because in omnichannel, the two must align," BloomReach CMO Joelle Kaufman told the E-Commerce Times Wamart responded to Amazon's eight-day sale by launching a pri...

Microsoft to Add Secure Islands to Its Cloud

It will pay between $78 million and $150 million, according to reports, but company spokesperson Joel Sider declined to disclose the terms of the acquisition, which requires regulatory approval Secure Islands' products will be integrated into the Azure Rights Management Servic...

T-Mobile Rumored to Roll Out Unlimited Video

"It's primarily a marketing gimmick," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst atThe Diffusion Group "They are depending on the fact that actual use of Netflix over the 3G/4G network is not very significant today, and that most people do it only when they are in WiFi," he told TechN...

Dish Network to Automate TV Ad Sales

"A view is a view is a view," said Joel Espelien, senior analyst at The Diffusion Group "The only way for advertisers to understand what they are doing with their budgets is to do it holistically with the same approach -- [cost per 1,000 impressions] and creative will vary by ...

OPINION

Why Dell-EMC Won’t Follow in HP-Compaq’s Footsteps

So, unlike Compaq under HP, which fully disappeared, EMC will continue as a relatively independent company that Dell eventually will run. Joe Tucci, whom Dell is replacing, has wanted to retire for some time. Also, EMC is already an umbrella company with federated components, so Dell's takeover should have little impact on day-to-day externally facing operations. Internally it will impact -- but improve -- things like supply chain, because Dell arguably has one of the best in the world. ...

Digital Assistants Sap Drivers’ Attention

A lot of drivers commonly use their voices to dictate text messages and place calls while driving, said Joel Cooper, research assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah Distraction can persist long after a driver has stopped interacting with digital assistant ...

Surface Book Evokes Oohs, Ahhs and Sticker Shock

Many reviewers have responded to the preproduction version of Microsoft's Surface Book the way an average Joe would view a top-of-the-line luxury car: The features are great, but the price is daunting "Overall, we recommend it, especially to people who value performance, desig...

iMac Refresh Advances Retina Revolution

There are about 5.3 million more pixels to be had in a 5K display, compared to a 4K, but for those who have not yet experienced it, the 4K pixel density is still breathtaking, according to Joe Silverman, owner of New York Computer Help You'll notice the difference if you've ne...

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