BARCELONA—PCMag witnessed a small footnote in telecom history this week at Mobile World Congress: the first Skype call over a light fidelity (LiFi) connection. The call was made using an old Samsung Galaxy S5 housed in a custom-built case that was adapted to fit a modified LiFi-XC dongle.
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are going coming online in 2018 with Google expected to make a big push mid-year and Microsoft with native support in Windows 10 Redstone 4 in the coming weeks. If you have an Android phone and are using the Microsoft Edge browser, you can start to use many of the …
Back during wind-up to embedded Linux you saw Microsoft and Nokia fighting mightily to become de facto standards. They created smarter and smarter phones, bolting on worse and worse experiences onto a platform that should have been running on ATMs rather than mobile phones. In about 2000 I …
Microsoft sells a new license for Windows to refurbishers for about $25. With the restore disc, a new license isn't needed. Lundgren believed that providing restore discs, which come with a new computer but are not otherwise easily obtainable, would allow people to extend the lives of their machines.
It is very obvious that beta releases of any software are obliged to have issues here and there. Windows Insider builds are no exceptions. But the new Windows 10 Build 17110 that was released yesterday, has one never seen before issue that could be a fix and the wildest dream for many Windows 10 …