Sunday, October 30, 2016

Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy and other top stories.

  • Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy

    Samsung 960 Pro review: The fastest consumer SSD you can buy
    Edward Chester reader comments 33 The all new Samsung 960 Pro, released today, is the follow up to last year's 950 Pro. It offers the same core set of features, with an M.2 form factor, four-lane PCIe 3.0 interface, NVMe communication standard, and 3D V-NAND. But the 960 Pro isn't just a minor spec bump. Samsung has seriously cranked up the speed (and capacities) of its flagship drives to the point where such ludicrous performance may be lost on all but the most demanding of users. These a..
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  • Xiaomi India Partners StoreKing Retail to Reach the Rural Masses

    Xiaomi India Partners StoreKing Retail to Reach the Rural Masses
    After recently announcing experience centres across India Xiaomi has now partnered with StoreKing in order to ramp up their offline presence in India’s rural areas. StoreKing Founder and CEO Sridhar Gundaiah was quoted as follows, “With Mi India on-board, we aim to serve rural consumers better regardless of their location and give them access to the best of products.”   StoreKing Partners with offline retailers and helps brands get access to the remote rural areas whilst helping rural folks w..
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  • LG's V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the f*%k can't you buy it?

    LG's V20 may be the phone of the year. So why the f*%k can't you buy it?
    For beleaguered Android phone makers, you might think a juicy prize has just appeared. For some of them, it could be a life-saver. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was expected to ship around 20 million units over its lifetime. An inflammable battery emphatically put paid to that - with the potential loss of tens of millions of more sales from “contagion”. In the short term, some five to seven million Note 7 owners are looking for an alternative. Most, it is reasonable to assume, would prefer to stick w..
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  • Apple car: How tech giant backed away from game-changing plan

    Apple car: How tech giant backed away from game-changing plan
    Apple has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people familiar with the project.Hundreds of members of the car team, which comprises about 1000 people, have been reassigned, let go, or have left of their own volition in recent months, the people said, asking not to be identified because the moves aren't public. More Technology Videos Previous slide ..
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  • Cybersecurity skills gap is a danger to businesses

    Cybersecurity skills gap is a danger to businesses
    October 18, 2016 • Security Skills gap in IT Security is widening and this is presenting a real danger to local businesses. (Image source: Tashatuvango/ Shutterstock.com) The number of cyber attacks being carried out globally is continuously growing, and has seen significant acceleration in the last five years. A recent study by PwC found that the number of cyber security incidents across all industries rose by 38% in 2015 – the biggest increase in the 12 years since the global study was first..
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  • Horror Stories From The Samsung Galaxy Note7 Flight Ban

    Horror Stories From The Samsung Galaxy Note7 Flight Ban
    On Saturday the federal flight ban on Samsung Galaxy Note7 phones went into effect in the United States. All four major Australian carriers have also banned the phone. We asked our readers how this was working out around the globe and from the replies we’ve received, it’s safe to say that, so far, this sucks. The US Transportation Department’s decision to ban the Note7 from all flights came just days after Samsung announced that it was killing the phone for good. That short window left little ..
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  • XG.Fast delivers 8Gbps over copper in NBN lab trials

    XG.Fast delivers 8Gbps over copper in NBN lab trials
    NBN has achieved speeds of up to 8 gigabits per second over 30 metres of copper using XG.Fast, the company announced today.The peak aggregate speed over twisted-pair was achieved during lab tests of the emerging standard. NBN has been trialling the technology in conjunction with Nokia. The two companies also achieved up to 5Gbps over 70 metres, which NBN says is about three times the length of the average copper lead-in to an Australian home.NBN chief technology officer Dennis Steiger said that..
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