Posts by Buster Hein

Hopefull the new Kindle is not like the Fire Phone. Photo: Amazon

Hopefull the new Kindle is not like the Fire Phone. Photo: Amazon

Looking for a new tablet but don’t need all the whiz-bang features that come with Apple’s pricey new iPad Pro?

Amazon may have just what you need when it reveals the 8th-generation Kindle next week. Amazon CEO teased the new tablet on Twitter today, giving readers a heads up on something wonderful coming their way.

Apple Music's competition might be changing owners. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Apple Music’s competition might be changing owners. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Tidal, the high fidelity music streaming service owned by Jay Z, has been struggling to compete with Spotify and Apple Music, but according to a new report Samsung is planning to throw the fledgling company a lifeline with a new acquisition deal.

No one sells more smartphones than Apple. Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr CC

No one sells more smartphones than Apple. Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr CC

iPhone owners are holding onto their smartphone a little bit longer than Samsung owners, and that appears to be helping the South Korean company catch up with Apple’s huge lead in marketshare.

Apple is still the world’s top manufacturer, but a new survey of smartphone owners found that 33% of iPhone users still have a device that’s more than two years old, while only 30% of Samsung owners are still using a two-year old model.

Apple wants Supreme Court to kill Samsung lawsuit. Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr CC

Apple wants Supreme Court to kill Samsung lawsuit. Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr CC


In a petition to the Supreme Court, Apple says the high court shouldn’t waste its time with Samsung’s high-profile appeal in the two companies’ long legal battle over patents.

Samsung filed an appeal in December asking for the Supreme Court to take a look at how the damages were calculated, but Apple argues that even though it was awarded $548 million, the case is “legally unexceptional.”

Apple's back on top again.

Apple’s back on top again.

Google is no longer the most valuable company in the world.

Earlier this week the search-giant’s parent company Alphabet overthrew Apple as the world’s top company in terms of marketcap, but it appears that the company’s reign is already after its stock price began trading way down this morning.

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