Samsung Electronics plans to overhaul its smartphone strategy at the mid-range price point in order to appeal more to millennials, the company’s mobile CEO has told CNBC. From the report: DJ Koh said the South Korean giant is changing its smartphone strategy for its mid-priced Galaxy A series of smartphones amid a slowdown in the…

Apple will hold an event on Wed. Sept. 12 presumably to announce the new iPhone or three. …read more Source:: CNet

Class-action lawsuit plaintiffs claim US health insurer Premera Blue Cross intentionally destroyed evidence despite ongoing litigation. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The gift card platform of the retail chain has been targeted by a cyberattack. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Sometimes, we need devices to notify us of something. The oven timer is going off. Your phone has a push notification. The smoke detector battery is getting low. All of these problems can be solved with a buzzer or an LED. It’s a simple and cheap problem to solve. But what if you need to…

NetComm’s new IIoT device enables NB-IoT and Cat-M1 connectivity for low-power, low-bandwidth things. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Google first released its Chrome browser 10 years ago today. Marketed as a “fresh take on the browser,” Chrome debuted with a web comic from Google to mark the company’s first web browser. From a report: It was originally launched as a Windows-only beta app before making its way to Linux and macOS more than…

Free API will help reviewers remove illegal material quicker, Google says. …read more Source:: CNet

We sometimes wonder if designers ever actually use their own products, or even put them through some sort of human-factors testing before putting them on the market. Consider the mechanism that secures toolholders to the spindle of a milling machine: the drawbar. Some mills require you to lock the spindle with a spanner wrench, loosen…

‘Our largest win to date!’ squeaks excited IT consultancy IT consultancy Wipro has signed a monster tech servies contract with Illinois-based Alight Solutions that should see the Indian outfit trouser as much as $1.6bn over the next decade.… …read more Source:: TheRegister