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Apple's iPhone 5s brought two significant features that most rival phones running Google's Android lack: a 64-bit processor, and a fingerprint scanner. Samsung's next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, could replicate both features, but not in the manner...

Microsoft is currently working on an "Update 1" for Windows 8.1, but the company has bigger plans for the future of Windows as part of a "Threshold" wave of updates. Windows watcher Paul Thurrott reports that the company’s Threshold plans will involve...

Despite receiving support from nearly all of its hardware partners, Microsoft's Windows 8 has yet to catch on as a tablet operating system. Last July, Microsoft took a $900 million writedown on its Surface tablet. Though sales have improved, Windows tablets...

The Windows Phone mobile platform may be looking to have an even better 2014 after showing some encouraging momentum this year, at least according to a Windows Supersitearticle written by Paul Thurrott. While Windows Phone is still trailing in third place...

It's been a close battle, but the war is just beginning. Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has sold more than 2 million Xbox One units in the new gaming platform's first 18 days of availability. This isn't a figure that merely covers the number...

The November NPD report on the videogame industry is out, and while we don’t have specific numbers, Sony says that its PS4 beat out Microsoft’s Xbox One in total sales. It’s unsurprising because the PS4 came out one week earlier, giving it a little more...

According to the L.A. Times, Walmart will start a big holiday sale for one of Apple's new iPhones on Friday. The iPhone 5c will be sold for $27 on a two-year contract, down from its selling price of $99. While Walmart's Black Friday sale which dropped...

Often called the Steve Jobs of China – a title he publicly said wasn’t appropriate – Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun said in an interview with Beijing News that Apple’s iPhone is still the best smartphone in the world, even though his company sells popular smartphone...

Sony has sold more than 2.1 million units of its new gaming console, the PlayStation 4, Sony Computer Entertainment Group CEO Andrew House announced last night. The PlayStation 4 is now in 32 countries, but more than one million of those sales came from...

As Consumer Electronic Show (CES) nears, more and more number of rumours and sneak peeks regarding the proposed Samsung smartphone, Galaxy S5 are doing the rounds. The handset reportedly features a multi-party video conferencing service, which is not...