As good as the Galaxy Note 8.0 tablet is, a software choice by Samsung makes using it a certain way infuriating…….

Apple says Microsoft is “confused.” There’s some truth to that. But that doesn’t mean Apple has all of the answers either…….

John La Grou, founder and CEO at Millennia Music & Media Systems, forecast how recorded sound will evolve over the coming decades…….

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes “Tourists often marvel at the number of rich and varied bookstores along Paris streets. Right across from Notre Dame Cathedral is one of the city’s most famous independent bookstores, Shakespeare and Company. Inside, every inch of space is crammed with books and readers. The city buys buildings in high-rent districts…

In a surprise to no one, Apple continues to make its notebooks difficult to fix and upgrade…….

First time accepted submitter pupsocket writes “Yesterday the German newspaper of record, Frankfurter Allgemeine, reported that the President told German Chancellor Merkel that he would have stopped the tap on her phone had he known about it. Today, another German paper, Bild am Sonntag, quoted U. S. Intelligence sources that the President had been briefed…

An anonymous reader writes “Eugene Wei, a former employee at Amazon and Hulu, explains why Amazon continues to post quarterly earnings statements with lots of revenue but no actual profit. Many of Amazon’s retail businesses and platforms are quite profitable by themselves, Wei says, a fact that is hidden by large expenditures on investment for…

When Android first launched, it was widely panned by critics and consumers alike. Five years later, it takes up more than half of all U.S. devices. Despite its initial struggles, Windows RT could still strike it lucky, according to two of the chipmaker’s product executives…….

Raj Talluri and Stephen Horton, two of the chipmaker’s product management executives, also say partners are developing about 40 tablets using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors…….

blogologue writes “I have played the guitar for some years now, and these days I think it’s good therapy to be creative with music, learning the piano and singing as well. So far I’ve been using Audacity as the tool to compose improvisations and demos. I haven’t done much audio work before, but it is…