Denon vs. Sonos reaches settlement, HEOS line will go on unchanged

Denon’s parent company Sound United has announced it has reached a settlement with Sonos over potential patent infringement by Denon’s HEOS wireless speakers. Sonos sued Denon back in 2014 as it said the HEOS lineup was too similar to Sonos’ own and infringed on at least four of its patents. “Our direction with HEOS is unchanged, and we’ll continue providing …

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Apple drops the price of its USB

Apple quietly dropped the price of its Lightning to USB-C cable in the Apple store, which is sure to please some iPhone fans, and some people think it may hint at what’s to come for future Apple products too. When it was released in 2016, $25 for the one-meter Lightning-to-USB-C cable was a hefty price to ask. Now, at $19 …

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Net neutrality champ Mignon Clyburn: FCC is hurting consumers

Mignon Clyburn is concerned the Federal Communications Commission is prioritizing corporations over consumers, according to Ars Technica.  Before leaving the agency this month, the former commissioner told the publication that the FCC’s top priority is to ensure all Americans have “affordable, efficient, and effective” access to communications services. If the agency doesn’t work to make affordable services a reality, “our …

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Wi

Facebook and Qualcomm are teaming up to bring super-fast Wi-Fi to built-up urban areas, the two companies announced  Monday. Qualcomm said it will integrate Facebook’s Terragraph technology, which uses high-frequency radio waves to speed up networks where populations are dense, into its upcoming chipsets. Terragraph is a millimeter-wavelength, 60GHz wireless system that serves as an alternative when laying fiber becomes …

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You can now play Boggle in your Oculus goggles

Hasbro’s first VR game just arrived in Oculus Rooms, the shared social space on the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go platforms. Boggle is now something you can play with your VR friends, if you have VR friends (I find it hard to make any). Facebook announced that Hasbro games were coming to Oculus at the F8 conference a few weeks ago, …

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Amazon’s new Marketplace Appstore connects sellers to software

Amazon is creating another app store, but it’s not for consumers. Instead, the online retail giant will for the first time put its seal of approval on a bunch of third-party apps intended for professional sellers with its new Marketplace Appstore. It launches to sellers starting Monday, the company said. CNET reported on plans for the app store earlier this …

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Inside an Amazon warehouse that ships your supersized purchases

Rich Hanna stands amid a seemingly unending series of long gray metal shelves loaded with a random assortment of items, including trash barrels, stacks of Kibbles ‘n Bits dog food, a stuffed-animal chipmunk sealed in a plastic bag, an LED-glowing underwater stool for a pool and a 35-pound tube of Safe Paw Ice Melter. That’s just the start. “You wanna …

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Alexa coming to Acer Spin notebooks from May 23

Acer’s quick to grab the credit for shipping out Alexa-enabled laptops, but the reality is more complicated.  The manufacturer sent out a press release Monday morning declaring “First!” on shipping laptops with Amazon’s voice assistant preinstalled. That’s fine, but the first notebook to ship with it installed will be the Acer Nitro 5 Spin, which won’t be shipping until next month. …

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Mark Zuckerberg’s European Parliament meeting will be streamed live

Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing at the European Parliament on Tuesday will be livestreamed for all the world to see, the Parliament’s president, Antonio Tajani, said in a tweet on Monday. The Facebook CEO last week agreed to talk with European lawmakers about potential impact of his mammoth social network on elections in Europe, as well as about personal data protection.  The …

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2019 Subaru Ascent: A bigger Subie to love

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How Amazon ships its biggest and bulkiest stuff

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Samsung, here’s what the Note 9 needs

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Galaxy S9 vs. Pixel 2 camera showdown

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The Australian town ditching the power companies and going off

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