Varjo’s new software updates, professional services, and higher pricing reflect more military use cases and less concern about competition from Apple.
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At its annual developer conference, NVIDIA justified its position as the premier AI silicon provider, showed a vision of AI transforming robotics, and expanded further onto the desktop.
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Apple’s MacBook Air is its best-selling laptop with enormous industry impact. I have been testing Apple's latest MacBook Air M4 for a few days, long enough for first impressions and analysis.
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Just ahead of the weekend, Apple quietly announced that it is delaying adding more genAI into Siri until later this year. This is a marketing black eye, but it isn’t clear if competitors can take full advantage.
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Amazon’s long gestating genAI version of Alexa, Alexa+, is coming with all the capabilities you’d expect and more integration than you might think. The key is that it will be part of Prime (for now).
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Apple is updating its core iPads and MacBooks this week with new, aggressively priced, higher performance models. Here is some quick analysis from the road (out at Mobile World Congress)
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With the iPhone 16e launching at just $600, that should give carriers room to heavily subsidize it for subscribers who want a good iPhone without all the bells and whistles. Are they?
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Apple visionOS 2.4 was announced today, bringing some Apple Intelligence and quality of life improvements to the Apple Vision Pro.
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Apple was widely expected to launch a new iPhone SE. Instead we we got a single-camera iPhone 16 with a new modem at a big discount and vertical integration brought to the modem.
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Analyzing the tech ads: Winners include Google, T-Mobile, and Meta; others may have raised visibility but at a staggering cost.
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Verizon held a small lunch yesterday to promote its latest Consumer Connections Report. Here are five highlights from Verizon's market research with some quick analysis:
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TCL initially ignored the surge of portable projectors out of China but it is now dipping its toes into the market. TCL is late to this trend; while the A1 is respectable, TCL needs to take more risks.
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Samsung’s Galaxy S25 family is notable not for new hardware or design – though the design improved and the specs are great – but for the integration of useful AI features that can be transferred in the future.
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There was a lot of silicon news at CES 2025; Qualcomm’s may be the most impactful by targeting the volume segment of the laptop market and pushing on-device AI to all.
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After teasing at various events that it was working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a VR headset, Google announced Android XR for all types of devices. This report covers both Android XR and the state of the market in general.
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HP bought HyperX to help it in PC gaming, a key industry growth area. However, the gaming keyboard market segment is under extreme pricing pressure, so it was with that in mind that I tested HyperX’s latest mechanical keyboard with its in-house switches.
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The ergonomics of Apple’s front-heavy Apple Vision Pro have left an opening for companies to try to come up with alternative straps. I looked at one from a little-known Chinese brand and a global medical devices company.
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LG is planning a major reorganization. The structural changes tie ThinQ and robotics directly to the home and suggest further investment is being made in webOS, but major challenges remain.
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At Microsoft’s annual IT conference, the company focused on security and AI, but also made an intriguing VR announcement and launched a small cloud client PC
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LG’s MyView Smart Monitor is a true hybrid work product – attempting to be a PC monitor, light computing platform, and a smart TV for entertainment. It’s a great concept; 2 out of 3 isn’t bad, right?
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