Bad news Nvidia Shield Tablet owners: thanks to a battery issue your slate may inadvertently set itself on fire. Nvidia has announced an official recall for every Shield tablet sold in the year since June 2014. The graphics card company also warns that users should stop using their tablets immediately because of the battery issues, which cause the device to overheat and potentially burst into flames. Ironically, to actually begin
Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens Update: We now have a release date for the second Star Wars Anthology film and some official plot points too. PLUS it looks like Netflix is going to be taking the reins of potentially three different live-action Star Wars TV series too. Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens is now just five months away, and we could not be more excited about what director
Just in case Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts aren’t convenient enough for you, accessory maker Satechi has brought out a Bluetooth button for calling up the services of Microsoft’s digital assistant whenever you need her. You can of course shout “hey Cortana!” at your computer but this new button is less of a drain on your laptop’s battery life and probably less embarrassing in a crowded office. It works with Windows
(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] will invest $1 billion in India in the next nine months, as the online taxi-hailing company looks to expand its services in its biggest market outside the United States. Uber said it would use the additional investment to improve operations, expand beyond the 18 Indian cities where it now operates, and develop new products and payment solutions. “We are extremely bullish on the Indian
China proposed new regulations on Friday that could force Internet companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Tencent Holdings Ltd and Baidu Inc to offer their rivals’ online payment services as well as their own. China has the world’s largest Internet population and Beijing is trying to better regulate the country’s rapidly-changing Internet sector, drawing up rules for everything from censorship to cybersecurity and e-commerce. “Payment institutions should fully respect
Sharp Corp on Friday said it would exit the TV set business in the Americas and consider more steps to shore up its finances, after reporting a deeper-than-expected quarterly loss on weak sales of smartphone displays. The Japanese electronics maker said it would sell its TV manufacturing plant in Mexico and license its brand in the Americas to China’s Hisense Group. In a separate statement, Hisense said it would pay
British electricals and mobile phone retailer Dixons Carphone has agreed to sell The Phone House Portugal, further streamlining its business as it focuses on markets where it has a leading position. Following completion, expected by the end of next month, Dixons Carphone will receive a small cash consideration. Earlier this year the group sold The Phone House Netherlands and The Phone House Deutschland.
By Michael Gold TAIPEI (Reuters) – The latest chapter in the miniaturisation of increasingly smart consumer electronics lies in the hands of chip packagers, an indispensable group of firms whose role in the supply chain alone is worth $27 billion. Packagers like Taiwan’s Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc (ASE) receive chips from manufacturers and prepare them for device assemblers by, for instance, encasing them in metal and resin. The advent of
By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Google Inc is refusing to bow to an order from the French privacy watchdog to scrub search results worldwide when users invoke their “right to be forgotten” online, it said on Thursday, exposing itself to possible fines. The French data protection authority, the CNIL, in June ordered the search engine group to de-list on request search results appearing under a person’s name from all
Introduction and key features The world has proclaimed the Samsung Galaxy S6 to be a stylish leap forward for the range following the somewhat drab Samsung Galaxy S5. But now that the initial bloom of gadget lust has passed, is Samsung’s latest flagship actually a better phone? Samsung found itself in an unusual position following the launch of the Galaxy S5 in April 2014. For the first time in five
