https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/rss en-us The iPhone XR's release date is October 26 and you can't preorder the phone until October 19. But it's still the 2018 iPhone that I think most of you should pay the closest attention to before buying a new smartphone this year. I've already reviewed the iPhone XS and XS Max, the other two new iPhones this year. In fact, here are my early reviews of each of them... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5413 Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:25:00 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5413-iphone-xr-why-this-october-iphone-is-worth-waiting-for Qualcomm's Toq smartwatch was so big it dwarfed my wrist. Rectangular and thick, it weighed down my arm and almost restricted my motion. I had to cut the wrist band, which contained the battery in the clasp, to precisely fit my wrist. It was a watch that only an engineer could love. And I sure wasn't an engineer. That, in a nutshell... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5375 Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:00:23 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5375-we-re-finally-getting-the-smartwatches-we-wanted-five-years-ago Google and Mastercard formed a secret partnership to track whether online ads led to a sale at a physical store, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Neither company has publicly announced the business partnership, which gave Google an invaluable tool for measuring retail spending, Bloomberg reported. Google paid Mastercard... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5336 Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:10:45 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5336-google-reportedly-had-deal-with-mastercard-to-track-retail-sales An Australian teen has pleaded guilty to hacking into Apple's secure network, but Apple says no customer data was compromised. The boy accessed Apple's mainframe from his suburban Melbourne home several times over a year because he was a fan of the US company and dreamed of working there, The Age reports, citing his lawyer. During these intrusions... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5303 Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:24:38 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5303-apple-reassures-customers-after-teen-is-busted-for-hacking-its-secure-network Opera, an underdog in a browser market dominated by Google's Chrome, raised $115 million in an initial public offering Friday. The company sold 9.6 million American depositary shares at $12 each, the high end of the $10-to-$12 range it expected for the IPO. When the stock started... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5269 Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:08:09 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5269-opera-browser-raises-115-million-in-initial-public-offering When you sign up for Facebook on your phone, the app isn't just giving you the latest updates and photos from your friends and family. In the background, it's utilizing the phone's gyroscope to detect subtle movements that come from breathing. It's measuring how quickly you tap on the screen, and even looking at what angle the phone is being held. Sound creepy... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5243 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:59:25 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5243-inside-facebook-twitter-and-google-s-ai-battle-over-your-social-lives It's been one year since Uber added tipping to its app. And, Uber said, it's been good for drivers. Drivers have earned more than $600 million in tips through the app in the US and Canada over the last year, the ride-hailing company said Thursday. Uber said that... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5200 Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:34:32 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5200-uber-tipping-hits-the-year-mark-drivers-made-600m Last Friday, the FBI issued a report recommending that everyone reboot their routers. The reason? "Foreign cyber actors have compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and other networked devices worldwide." That's a pretty alarming PSA, but also a somewhat vague one. How do you know if your router is infected... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5148 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:49:29 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5148-the-fbi-says-you-should-reboot-your-router-should-you tp-link-router-11 Yahoo's cybersecurity failures continue to haunt the company -- now to the tune of $35 million. The US Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that Altaba, the company formed from the ashes of Yahoo's sale to Verizon, has agreed to pay a penalty of that amount to settle charges that Yahoo failed to disclose a massive data breach from December 2014. That breach... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5088 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 04:54:05 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5088-company-formerly-known-as-yahoo-to-pay-35m-over-massive-breach Apple on Thursday will start alerting you if you have old Mac apps hanging around. If you have the latest version of Apple's MacOS software downloaded, you'll get a warning when you open older apps that run on 32-bit technology. Apple has been pushing developers to update their apps to 64-bit technology. That enables faster apps that can... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5058 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:58:19 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5058-apple-now-will-warn-you-if-your-mac-has-old-32-bit-apps With the addition of Pencil support and a faster processor, the new entry-level 2018 Apple iPad edges that much closer to its premium siblings. Apple will look to redefine the iPad Pro line -- and justify its higher price -- with a big-time update later this year, according to the rumors. And... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5023 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 06:52:11 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/5023-ipad-pro-2018-all-the-rumors-on-specs-price-release-date Go big or go cheap? That is the existential question Apple may tackle in 2018. The company is said to be tinkering with its 2018 iPhone lineup in an effort to goose adoption of the three models released in 2017 and three new ones reportedly coming later this year. The ultrapricey iPhone X may have... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4976 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:47:33 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4976-iphone-11-and-iphone-x-plus-specs-price-release-date-rumors iphone-x-plus 5G will bring higher speeds to our phones than ever before, and it's ready and raring to go... Well, almost. The advent of 5G, the next generation of cellular technology, comes loaded with promises. It will enable... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4915 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:59:15 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4915-5g-will-be-less-sizzle-more-substance-at-mwc If dropping your phone and cracking the screen is your worst phone nightmare, you're not alone. Phonemakers use chemically strengthened Gorilla Glass, shatterproof coatings and sometimes sapphire crystal toppers to help ward off cracks should your phone take a tumble. Now... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4881 Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:23:55 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4881-the-first-phone-with-a-diamond-screen-will-come-in-2019 Apple squirmed a little after it was revealed that it was secretly slowing older iPhones to protect their batteries from excessive degradation. Cupertino subsequently apologized and instituted a battery replacement program for a mere $29. On Wednesday, however... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4849 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 04:39:00 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4849-tim-cook-people-didn-t-pay-attention-to-iphone-battery-update I came home late from my first day of testing the iPhone X. My wife sent me audio clips over iMessage from the kids after I sent them pictures of myself, now beardless. "O-M-G. I can't even recognize Daddy!" I couldn't recognize myself either. In the mirror... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4742 Mon, 20 Nov 2017 09:03:38 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4742-iphone-x-review-the-best-iphone-challenges-you-to-think-different For years, China has claimed the top spot on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. Now it dominates the overall list, too, pushing the United States into second place. For the first time, China has the most systems on the Top500 list, 202, up from 159 six months ago. The US dropped from 169 to 144. And in terms of the total performance of those machines, China also... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4723 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:59:55 -0500 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4723-china-s-supercomputers-race-past-us-to-world-dominance Facebook, Google and Twitter came to Capitol Hill to argue they're ready to fight back against the scourge of fake news and the Russian misinformation campaign that influenced the 2016 US presidential election. The senators were left unimpressed. "You showed a lack of resources, commitment and a lack of genuine effort," said... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4686 Thu, 02 Nov 2017 06:56:29 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4686-congress-grills-facebook-twitter-google-over-russian-influence Apple's iPhone X goes up for preorders on Friday Oct. 27 but members of the iPhone Upgrade Program can get an early start Monday. No, you won't be able to preorder before Oct. 27. Apple told CNET that in order for iPhone Upgrade members to get their new phone, they'll have to fill out a loan application and be approved. The process takes a couple of minutes, but... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4654 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:21:03 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4654-upgrading-to-an-iphone-x-get-a-head-start-now Microsoft's fall update to Windows 10 ($199.99 at Dell Home) is out. Dubbed Fall Creators Update (aka Windows 10 Version 1709), this latest edition of Windows 10 brings a subtle design change and introduces a number of new features to improve Cortana, Edge and Photos. It also embraces mixed reality, makes Windows more secure and throws some emojis at you. Let's have a look... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4638 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:28:36 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4638-windows-10-fall-creators-update-10-new-features-to-try What started with my wife and me looking for an escape from digital overload has completely changed the way we take vacations. I'd been pulling all-nighters. Endless calls with my colleagues made me late for dinners with friends, tied me to my phone nearly all hours of the day and left me frazzled. Then I read a survey by... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4615 Mon, 09 Oct 2017 11:21:35 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4615-digital-detoxing-is-a-thing-really About 10 million Facebook users saw Russian-linked ads placed on its service during the 2016 US election campaign, the social media giant said Monday. About 44 percent of the ads were seen before election, while 56 percent were seen afterward, Elliot Schrage, the company's vice president of policy and communications, wrote in a blog post. The figures were among the... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4604 Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:05:36 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4604-russia-linked-facebook-ads-seen-by-10-million-users In the few brief moments we spent with the new iPhone X, we got a sense of its truly game-changing potential. Since then, we've taken a close look at the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus and found them to be incremental, high-quality updates to last year's models. They're safe and sensible phones that, for now, remain... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4591 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 08:28:27 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4591-iphone-x-absolutely-everything-you-need-to-know iPhone-X Hackers stole a treasure trove of financial data from a top credit-reporting company, potentially exposing the personal information of roughly half the US population. Equifax said Thursday that thieves stole customer names, Social Security numbers, birthdates and addresses in a hack that stretched from mid-May and July. The data taken affected as many as 143 million people. The number of affected people is... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4530 Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:08:19 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4530-equifax-data-breach-may-affect-nearly-half-the-us-population Tracy Chou wanted to see the numbers. In 2013, fresh off the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, an annual conference focused on the advancement and professional development of women in the field, Chou wrote a post on Medium asking for numbers on just how many women were in technical roles in the industry. Then... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4460 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 12:25:53 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4460-the-problem-with-tech-diversity-reports What kind of flier are you? I like the window seat. Once I'm sitting on a plane with my seatbelt fastened, I rarely get up again. This is mostly because I'm usually asleep before the plane even reaches the runway. But it's also because when turbulence inevitably hits, it's much better to be... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4330 Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:26:59 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4330-adios-turbulence-pilots-have-a-new-way-to-outfox-you Amazon is getting into the grocery business in very big way, though with a less Amazonian approach than expected. The online retail giant, which has toiled for over a decade trying to make online grocery deliveries work, said Friday it has agreed to acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion in cash. The deal, expected to close in the second half of the year, is by far Amazon's biggest acquisition. The addition of... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4310 Fri, 16 Jun 2017 11:54:45 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4310-why-amazon-wants-to-own-whole-foods-and-sell-you-groceries Bye Project Scorpio, hello to the new Xbox One X. The console, revealed by Microsoft at its E3 2017 conference on Sunday, is promising better graphics for players, whether or not they have a 4K television. They do this by using a technique called "supersampling," where the computer creates images at a quality far higher than the TV can show, and then shrinks it down. This, Microsoft said, makes games look that much better. The new console is... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4283 Mon, 12 Jun 2017 11:56:29 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4283-microsoft-reveals-xbox-one-x-its-most-powerful-console-ever X-Box One X Apple's annual WWDC conference is less than a day away, but you may not have to wait until then for some saucy Apple news. A trio of people who work within Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that makes many of Apple's products, did an... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4265 Mon, 05 Jun 2017 11:41:05 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4265-iphone-8-could-bring-you-wireless-charging-face-recognition The Hilton Union Square Hotel in San Francisco was busier than normal as people hustled to grab boxed sandwich lunches. The food was provided by Samsung, which played host to a developer conference last week to promote its homegrown Tizen operating system. With a turkey sandwich in hand,... http://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4221 Wed, 24 May 2017 07:48:57 -0400 https://www.businesswatchnetwork.com/articles/4221-samsung-s-android-rival-wants-some-respect-finally