New 60TB SSD from Seagate is the biggest in the world Seagate has just announced the largest SSD in the world with a capacity of 60-terabyte. Pricing is unknown for the moment, but the company says the drive will provide “the lowest cost per gigabyte for flash” memory today. The drive is expected to launch in 2017...
Category: Weekly tech news
NTW: Instagram and Facebook copy SnapChat’s Stories, macOS Sierra beta available, Pokemon Go update
NTW = New This Week Tech news that happened this week and caught my eye and interest. Hopefully you also find it interesting too. This week Instagram added a new feature that has an eerily resemblance to Snapchat, macOS Sierra beta is out and so is a Pokemon Go update. Instagram and Facebook rip off...
NTW: 1 billion iPhones sold, Microsoft smartphones step back, VR industry grows and more
New This Week: pretty big changes for Microsoft as they fire yet another batch of employees from their smartphone division. Not totally unrelated, iPhone number 1 billion got sold. Microsoft cuts another 3000 jobs in its smartphone division Microsoft plans to lay off nearly 3,000 more jobs over the next year across its smartphone hardware business...
New This Week: No more Flash on Firefox, KickassTorrents goes offline, iPhone 7 announced for September
Let’s take a quick look at what this week has brought new on the tech scene. So, we’re looking at Mozilla that announced they are planning to eliminate Flash support, the iPhone 7 is announced for September 12 for this year and another big hit to online torrents as KickassTorrents alleged founder gets arrested resulting...
New This Week: Pokemon Go Crazy, Google Play Indie Game Fest, Cloud9 IDE is now Amazon
Not too much happening on the tech scene, probably also due to summer holidays in. Still, there are a few things that caught my eye. Pokemon Go is setting new usage records, coming up is the Android Indie Games Festival held by Google and Amazon acquired Cloud9 IDE. Pokemon Go – more daily users than Twitter,...
New this week: Android Nougat, the future of VR, the future of Java and more
Android Nougat is delicious Google announced on June 30th that the name of Android 6 N is officially Nougat, in line with the naming tradition using deserts. So, it’s not Nutella and it’s not Namey McNameface like mentioned humorously 2 weeks ago. A lot of people were rooting for Nutella, however probably there would have...
New this week: YouTube down, Huawei homegrown OS, iPhone stylus and one handed sensor
Here are the latest and greatest things that happened this week. Users reported YouTube down for a few hours, Huawei builds its own OS and iPhone registers a few new patents. YouTube down It doesn’t happen too often, actually it hasn’t happened for a really long time, but on June 22nd 2016 YouTube website went down. It...
New This Week: Apple WWDC, LinkedIn is now Microsoft, Android N not Namey McNameface, Google Springboard
Last week I started a new category on the blog and we looked at what was new tech wise last week. Exciting week this week with the Apple WWDC and a lot of annoucements made by Apple regarding changes to it’s platform, new apps, etc. Also, other interesting things happening on the IT stage, so we’ll...
New this week: Facebook 360 Photos, Liferay 7, PlayStation 4k Neo
I’m starting a new type of post with tech news of the past week. I will try to make it a weekly thing just to give you an idea of what happens on the tech stage. I will for sure miss on things, but I will at least catch main tech events. Facebook 360 Photos...