Prime Music a decent perk for existing Amazon subscribers – no threat yet to Spotify

Amazon enters streaming music fray with Prime Music, a modest service featuring only a million tracks. But, once again for CEO Jeff Bezos it's the potential that counts most.

What is Amazon Echo?

With Echo, Amazon guns for Google (Now) and Apple (Siri) in the battle for cloud supremacy. But there's a problem with that strategy.

Blackmagic $teals NAB with URSA Mini cinema camera

Once again Blackmagic Design drummed up buzz aplenty at NAB in Vegas. This time with a new, compact Super 35 camera called the URSA Mini. A direct threat to the Canon C100 Mark II and Sony FS7?
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV 20.2 MP Digital Still Camera

Sony RX100 IV Cyber-shot shoots superb video (Test)

Sony has the mirrorless world abuzz these days. It seems when it comes to camera innovation in recent years, and especially in 2015, all roads point to Sony. I've been testing Sony's latest version of its compact point-and-shoot camera, the RX100 IV. Per the name it's in its fourth incarnation....
Huawei Watch - 2015 Sales

Android Wear has surprise leader according to latest smartwatch report

The top maker of Android Wear watches is not Motorola, LG, Fossil or even discount player Asus...
Ex Machina - Why machine-learning will enhance, not replace, human creativity

Yes, the machines will rise… to a point

"When machines become more intelligent, humans are freed to become more creative. That opens the doors to completely new possibilities." In my latest article, over on The Next Web, I propose this theory and argue, perhaps not as dramatically as some, that machines of the future are far more likely to...
Google Pixel smartphones

Google refreshes smartphone brand, launches “Pixel” phones starting from $649

Consumers are accustomed to paying a premium for an iPhone, but will it work for a Google phone?
Google TPU pods - AI and machine learning battlefront

Google places big bets on AI and machine learning

Now that we're wired into the cloud with smartphones and tablets, that data is about to be used to build an army of machine learning-based neural networks. What exactly does that mean for us mere mortals... ?
Tapping into the opportunity of the streaming boom

New Report: Cable TV continues to lose ground to Netflix, cord cutters

The long, slow -- and somewhat agonizing and predictable -- decline continues. A new report "I stream, you stream" from PWC's consumer intelligence series suggests that streaming services like Netflix continue to chip away at the once formidable Cable TV providers. 73% of survey respondents (1,986 people) said that they subscribed...