Microsoft may do the unthinkable to make you dump XP, Vista and Windows 7
Windows is one of Microsoft’s main money makers, and the company is interested in seeing as many current Windows users move to its latest operating system as possible. However, no matter what the company does, there still are plenty of users who are on older Windows versions, including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. ZDNet has learned that Microsoft may be working on a huge Windows 9 surprise to convince reluctant users to finally move to the latest Windows operating system available.
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HTC still hasn’t stopped the bleeding
Sure, HTC has become somewhat profitable lately, but that’s only because the company has taken some pretty significant cost cutting measures. From a sales standpoint, HTC’s revenue continues to shrink despite the fact that its flagship smartphones earn widespread praise every year as some of the best in the world.
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Samsung just got itself sued by another iconic tech giant
Even though Microsoft isn’t making any popular Android devices of its own, the giant Windows maker is still milking a lot of cash from Android device sales, as the company inked more than a few licensing agreements with all sorts of OEMs that sell Android smartphones and tablets for a living. According to existing reports, Microsoft is reportedly making over $2 billion a year from those licensing deals, and the number could go up to $8.8 billion a year by 2017. However, Samsung, the most important Android device maker doesn’t want to pay the bills anymore, and, unsurprisingly, Microsoft took legal action against the South Korean corporation.
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Here comes the beastly Galaxy Note 4
It’s official: The Galaxy Note 4 is going to be announced on September 3rd. Per SamMobile, Samsung has just sent out its press invitations for its Unpacked 2014 event, which will take place on September 3rd in Berlin during IFA 2014. While Samsung doesn’t explicitly say that the Galaxy Note 4 will be unveiled at this event, it’s pretty obvious that’s what’s coming since Samsung has used past IFA shows as launching pads for both the Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy Note 3.
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Apple’s latest iPhone 5s ad is all about dreams… and how the iPhone can help
Apple’s “You’re More Powerful Than You Think” TV iPhone ad campaign continues with a fourth episode, following the “Powerful,” “Strength,” and “Parenthood” commercials released in the recent past. Called “Dreams,” the new clip shows all sorts of iPhone users who rely on various apps to accomplish different daily tasks, whether they’re for job-related purposes or fun.
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Samsung continues its Galaxy Tab S push with three new ads
The Galaxy Tab S released to rave reviews earlier this summer as many proclaimed that Samsung finally had its answer to the iPad. The tablet’s killer feature is its 2560 x 1600 Super AMOLED display, which is of course the focus of the brand new #TabletRealities ad campaign. In the three advertisements published to Samsung’s YouTube page on Friday, we watch three accomplished individuals discover their guilty pleasures on the Galaxy Tab S.
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Office for iPad just got some of the great features you’ve been asking for
Microsoft’s Office for iPad has been a hit from the moment it was finally launched in the App Store, with Word, Excel and PowerPoint quickly becoming top apps, and it looks like the Windows maker is not done with further improving this particular touch-first Office version. Microsoft has updated its Office for iPad apps, Ars Technica reports, with several interesting additions, including support for exporting files as PDFs, cropping pictures in line, and using third-party fonts in documents.
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Popular to-do app Wunderlist gets major redesign and awesome new features
Wunderlist is a well-known to-do list app that’s available on iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome and the web, with developer 6Wunderkinder on Thursday announcing a major redesign and completely new features for the popular applications. The company also revealed that its app has more than 8 million users who have generated over 450 million lists since the app was first launched four years ago.
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How to play any Game Boy Advance game on your iPhone without a jailbreak
Back in February, we showed you how to play classic NES games on your iPhone without having to resort to a jailbreak. If your mobile Nintendo game fix still isn’t satisfied, you might want to give GBA4iOS a try. There are versions for both iOS 6 and iOS 7, but the instructions to download the app are the same: set your iPhone back at least one day, head to the website to download the app, open GBA4iOS at least once and then set the date back to normal.
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Forget Siri and Google Now, human-powered Ooloo will answer all your questions
Remember those hilarious videos wondering what it would be like for Google to be an actual human being capable of answering all your serious, strange and wacky questions? Well, now there is one such human-powered search solution, but it wasn’t made by Google. The guys over at iDrive, who make extremely affordable cloud solutions for iOS and Android devices, have a completely different endeavor called Ooloo that is described as Apple’s Siri but with real people. Or better said, it’s like Amazon’s Mayday service, but for everything you might want to find out from a search service.
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