by Adre's IT | 1 August, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Asia, bilibili, Boeing, CNBC, Hardware, iRobot, Kreditech, luckin, May Mobility, Northern Light Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital China, software as a service, TC, The New York Times, Toyota, vista equity partners, Welight Capital, working remotely
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The tech industry in China has had quite a turbulent week. The government is upending its $100...
by Adre's IT | 30 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Copenhagen, grocery delivery, Hardware, pennsylvania, PhotoMath
Last quarter, Chromebooks saw 275% year-over-year growth up to 12 million units. The figure isn’t quite as unwieldy for Q2, but a 75% year-over-year growth is still extremely respectable, with the category hitting 11.9 million shipments, per the latest figures from...
by Adre's IT | 29 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Amazon, consumer electronics, Fire TV Stick, Hardware, Joel Neidig, Media, microphone, roku, SMS, telework, usb, video conference, wi-fi, zoom
Late last year, Amazon launched support for two-way calling that worked with its Fire TV Cube devices. The feature allowed consumers to make and receive calls from their connected TV to any other Alexa device with a screen. Today, the company is expanding this system...
by Adre's IT | 23 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, Hardware, pc sales, playdate, playstation, TC, wireless speaker
Playdate, the adorable whimsy-and-nostalgia-box/handheld game system built by Panic (with some help from Teenage Engineering), has taken one more big step toward reality: it has an official preorder date. And it’s soon! The company announced this morning that...
by Adre's IT | 22 July, 2021 | accessibility, Adre's IT Blog, autograph, Boeing, ftc violation, Gadgets, Hardware
As phones and other consumer devices have gained feature after feature, they have also declined in how easily they can be repaired, with Apple at the head of this ignoble pack. The FTC has taken note, admitting that the agency has been lax on this front but that going...
by Adre's IT | 15 July, 2021 | Adre's IT Blog, charging, Cloud, Hardware, Ministry of Economy, PhotoMath, semiconductor wafers, TC, Windows 10
When Microsoft announced that it was releasing a cloud PC service called Windows 365 this morning, it got me thinking. While Windows 365 is about packaging a virtual Windows business desktop in a cloud context, if you think about the announcement in a different way,...
