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It’s a lovely day when I get to incorporate a pun into the weekly newsletter, but not so lovely for Samsung who has faced a series of setbacks on a variety of issues with their smartphones. The latest problem has actually prompted the Korean manufacturer to recall all the review units of the Galaxy Fold,

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Facebook is in the headlines again, and once again, not for anything redemptive. I’d say I was almost feeling sorry for Facebook, but it would probably be more correct to say that I feel sorry for the thousands of people it employs and the millions of people for whom the social media platform is their

When Windows 10 was first announced Microsoft touted the new architecture and forced, scheduled updating as a means to keep the world’s largest computing platform secure, relevant and consistent across the myriad hardware configurations on which it is used. Many of us who had been around the block more than few times with Microsoft viewed

Lest you think political turmoil caused by social media is purely a US-based phenomenon, the world’s biggest election starts next week in India as over 800 million people prepare to vote. And as it goes in any modern country with a relatively internet-savvy voting population, propaganda, fake news and misinformation campaigns from every political party

Microsoft isn’t playing around this time: support for Windows 7 will be ending in less than a year, and a recent round of updates include a pop-up on all Windows 7 machines reminding the user that the clock is now ticking down to January 14, 2020. If you haven’t seen pop-up already, you will probably

One would think that nothing could be more awful than the violent mass murder that happened last Friday. Until you learn that the shooter live-streamed his monstrous rampage on Facebook. And surely nothing could be more depraved than that, right? But consider this: even after the live-stream was taken down by Facebook, over the course

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