Articles by Quinten Plummer

Amazon last week said it planned to stop selling streaming devices from rivals Apple and Google A pillar of its Prime ecosystem, Prime Video, was incompatible with Apple TV and Google's Chromecast, the company suggested....

Following a successful series of talks, Google and Microsoft on Thursday announced they had come to an agreement to close about 20 lawsuits fired off by both sides Microsoft and Motorola Mobility had been at each other's legal throats since 2010, with claims of unpaid royalties and unlawful reneges on agreements thickening the air between the two.

Logitech on Wednesday announced a new monitoring system that links users to live feeds of their homes via an app Called "Logi Circle," it picks up Nest's Dropcam model and expands it with mobility....

Google on Tuesday introduced a pair of new phablets, a couple of Chromecasts and the first tablet it built by itself. The unveilings took place at the company's Nexus event in San Francisco Months of leaks drew very accurate portraits of the US$499 Huawei Nexus 6P (pictured above) and $379 LG Nexus 5X and other Android hardware, but Google filled i...

Americans are expected to spend US$4.6 billion on fantasy sports this year, while vying for a payout of around $107 -- the average prize for winning the biggest fantasy league games, according to American Express Driving that spending and risk taking are a passion for sports, the promise of purses, the push of new platforms, and the pull of camarad...

Sprint on Saturday announced that it will sit out the next FCC spectrum auction Instead of bidding for the low-band spectrum that will be on offer, Sprint -- which is running neck-and-neck with T-Mobile, the self-styled "Un-Carrier" -- will focus on improving its network....

Samsung last week unveiled a consumer version of a virtual reality headset adapter that converts Samsung smartphones into head-mounted displays. The move represents a first strike -- ready or not -- as top tech industry players begin to push virtual reality hardware into consumer markets....

There's a rough road ahead for consumers strapped into Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars, the ones revealed last week to have been kitted out with software to fool emissions testing About half a million of the suspect cars likely will be recalled in the U.S. alone, though there are about 11 million of the questionable vehicles on the road around the ...

Google on Tuesday announced new block and unsubscribe features for Gmail that will make it easier for users to manage their in-boxes and harder for marketers to creep out of the spam folder "Sometimes you get mail from someone who's really disruptive," said Sri Harsha Somanchi, product manager at Google. When that happens, "you should be able to sa...

Groupon on Tuesday announced plans to cut 1,100 jobs and close operations in seven countries and said it has filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to that effect. The biggest cuts will hit its customer service and international deals centers, as the company regroups to leverage new efficiencies.

GameStop has signaled resistance to the trend of bundling game consoles with digital downloads rather than physical copies of games. The company ships more than half of all PlayStation 4 and Xbox One software....

Microsoft on Monday confirmed that network issues crippled the consumer version of Skype Some users reported no success in logging in. Others managed to log in, but weren't recognized as being online.

Amazon last week confirmed and detailed the bare-bones Fire tablet (pictured above), which will sell for just $49 -- and it announced five other Fire family additions while it was at it Flanking the Fire tablet are the refreshed Fire HD, the Fire TV with 4K, the Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote and the updated Fire Kids Edition. Amazon announced two...

Weeks away from the launch of Halo 5: Guardians, 343 Industries and Microsoft on Tuesday revealed some of the technical ingenuity behind what's expected to be the biggest Xbox One game of the 2015 holiday season The game's developers have been raving about their playtime with the upcoming sci-fi shooter. For starters they're promising first-class d...

Tatsumi Kimishima emerged as president of Nintendo, following a meeting of the board on Monday Kimishima, 65, has taken up the positions of representative director and president, and he has shed the roles of managing director, general manager of corporate analysis and administration, division and general manager of general affairs, and head of huma...

Muffled by the rumors Apple TV had gone Hollywood and the giggles the Apple Pencil provoked, the latest additions to Apple's core product line -- the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus -- had to settle for a smaller share of the headlines coming out of last week's Hey Siri event. Although the iPhones received less media attention this year, it was not due to a...

The refreshed Apple TV, tvOS and the Siri Remote Apple presented during Wednesday's "Hey Siri" event may not have been game changers, but the people pushing Apple's renewed focus on gaming are Television's future lies in apps, proclaimed Apple CEO Tim Cook as he drew the curtain on the Apple TV's new iOS 9-powered operating system: tvOS. That line ...

Amazon plans to offer a US$50 tablet in time for the holiday shopping season, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people privy to the company's plans. The 6-inch tablet would sell for half the price of the Fire HD 6. A $50 price point would make a tablet disposable to some and finally affordable to others -- points apparently not lost on Amaz...

Apple has been mulling a move to commission original programming for its Apple TV, and some of Hollywood's top decision makers have been helping the company plan its strategy, Variety reported last week The Hollywood executives who tipped Variety didn't paint a cohesive picture of Apple's plans. Some described the conversations with the company as ...

Intel on Tuesday introduced its long-awaited 6th Generation Core family, which will include 48 processors. The launch coincides with the migration to Windows 10, which became generally available at the end of July With Moore's Law in question, Intel finally made a breakthrough in transitioning from 22nm dies down to 14nm. It took the company about ...