Articles for January 2015

Interest levels are increasing around Samsung and their upcoming replacement to the Samsung Galaxy S5. The Galaxy S6 is likely to get a S Edge variant with a curved screen like the Note Edge marketed to a broader audience than the Edge Note was. ... Read more

OnePlus One was almost 1m selling hit. The OnePlus encore was going to be the OnePlus 2. The new handset was due out shortly but it has now suffered a delay similar to the Samsung Galaxy S6. The cause? Possible heat issues with the Snapdragon 810. ... Read more

Early reports from Samsung are that they have been having problems with overheating with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset in the early prototypes of the Samsung Galaxy S6. LG's CEO pointed out that the G Flex 2 uses the 810 and is fine. ... Read more

As discussed in the comments of our post on blocking Outlook.com and the Gmail domain by Chinese authorities, many reports have surfaced about difficulties for users of virtual private network (VPNs) to access email and web sites inside China. ... Read more

The latest product that is part of the mini-computer category, is Fitlet, a mini-PC by CompuLab, which is mostly known for its popular mini-computer that goes by the name of Utilite 2. ... Read more

PlayStation 4 or Xbox One? Simply combine them to end your problems. ... Read more

Bitdefender is holding a nice giveaway this month, appropriately entitled 'Hug a Mac', with the price being a 13" MacBook Air (aprox. $999 USD). To enter the contest, all you have to do is this ... Read more

According to Sony, PlayStation 4 was the game console with the most sales universally for 2014, as well as the game console with the fastest sales compared to any other console to date. ... Read more

The battle between the app stores of the two tech titans Google and Apple is raging more than ever, since both companies are trying to attract as many developers as they possibly can. ... Read more

Here is the latest information from Microsoft announcements, regarding their new web browser "Spartan". ... Read more

A list featuring popular games and apps that iOS has made available for free for a limited time. ... Read more

Adobe is not having a good time of it with their aging Flash technology. The company has had to issue yet another security bulletin because of an exploit exists for CVE-2015-0310 which may be used to attack older Flash Player software installations. ... Read more

The ink is barely dry on the earlier than expected release of Window 10 Technical Preview of Build 9926 and it has mostly been a success but a few items have cropped up as one should expect from a preview edition of anything. ... Read more

Unadorned by an obstructive case, the new Lenovo Vibe X2 Pro is a tri-colored device which really stands out from the busy crowd of black-cased smartphone alternatives. The thin 7 millimeters thickness of the phone is also evident with the design. ... Read more

A new SSD being deployed into the latest Samsung laptop computers will put other solid state drives to shame. The Samsung SM951 MLC flash SSD uses PCIe M.2 instead of SATA which improves the read times to 2,150 MB/s for the PCIe 3.0 version. ... Read more