Don Reisinger

Amazon Prime Day Offers Big Deals for Fast-Acting Customers For the third consecutive year, Amazon is holding its Prime Day July 11. The 30-hour event is the biggest shopping day of the year for Amazon and offers special deals on tens of thousands of products, giving shoppers access to Black Friday-like prices in midsummer. But […]

How Red Will Draw Buyers to Its $1,600 Hydrogen Smartphone Red is a company best known for making some of the world’s most expensive and visually stunning digital video cameras. But now the company is turning its attention to smartphones. In an announcement July 6, Red said it is planning to release a handset called […]

Microsoft Laying Off ‘Thousands’ to Focus Resources on Cloud Business Rumors started circulating a week ago that Microsoft was preparing to lay off employees, but the scale of dismissals was unclear. On July 6 Microsoft announced that it was carrying out a major restructuring that would result in the layoff of “thousands” of sales personnel, […]

Features to Look for in Lenovo’s Rumored Moto X4 Midrange Smartphone Years ago the Motorola X line was among the top smartphone models on the market. However, the X models have been supplanted by the Moto Z as the high-end option in Lenovo’s smartphone product line. While some industry watchers have questioned whether Moto X […]

Amazon Echo Show Touch-Screen Helps Improve Smart-Home Functionality The Amazon Echo Show is the latest entrant into an increasingly crowded smart-home market. Over the past several days, I’ve had the chance to try it out and see whether the device’s touch-screen integration really adds more value to the smart-home hub experience. I’ve found that it […]

New Processor, Big Screens Planned for Google Pixel 2 Smartphone In 2016 Google surprised the mobile market by introducing the first Android smartphone it both designed and engineered. That handset, called the Google Pixel, is now just months away from being replaced by an updated model, to be known logically as the Google Pixel 2. […]

New File System Biggest Improvement to Apple’s macOS High Sierra Apple’s desktop operating system macOS is getting an update. But arguably the most important feature in that update is what’s running in the background with the operating system. At the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, Apple announced it will release macOS High Sierra as a […]

How the Apple iPhone Defined What Makes a Great Smartphone It’s been 10 years since Apple released its first iPhone, on June 29, 2007. At the time, the smartphone market was dominated by entrenched competitors such as BlackBerry, back when it was still known as Research in Motion and delivered smartphone designs with physical keyboards […]

Why Samsung Is Selling Refurbished Galaxy Note 7 ‘Fandom Edition’ Samsung has made the rather surprising—and perhaps even ill-advised—move to release refurbished models of its Galaxy Note 7 big-screen smartphone. This is the same Galaxy Note 7 that cost the company billions of dollars when it had to recall all examples of the handset because […]

What the EU $2.7 Billion Antitrust Fine Means for Google Global Search Business Google now has the dubious distinction of incurring the largest fine ever imposed on a company by the European Union. The EU’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager announced June 27 that Google had been slapped with a $2.7 billion fine on the grounds […]