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At Microsoft’s Ignite conference this month, the company announced a new vision for its personal productivity assistant, Cortana — one which aimed to make it more useful in your day-to-day work, including email, but one which also saw Microsoft scaling its ambitions back from Cortana as a true Siri, Alexa …

  Google Maps will soon begin testing a new feature that’s more common to social networks like Facebook, rather than a maps app: the ability to find and follow other users. In Google Maps’ case, it’s specifically rolling out the ability to follow top “Local Guides” — its community members …

  Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all. What are developers talking about? What do app publishers and marketers need to know? How are politics impacting the App …

  The age of foldable phones is upon us, whether you like it or not. Just a few days after Motorola unveiled its revived foldable Razr, Huawei has finally launched its first foldable phone, the Mate X. However, it’s only on sale in China without Google apps. Any plans to …

  Google’s Chrome browser has always had a very quick update cycle, but there are multiple release channels if you don’t want to live on the cutting edge and deal with bugs. Google also lets IT administrators control updates on their networks. However, the browser maker ruffled some feathers this …

  Google has decided to deploy the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol on its own after waiting for years for carriers in the US to do so instead. While SMS has been a phenomenally successful message protocol, it dates to the mid-1980s. RCS is intended to be a replacement, but …

  When Motorola started teasing the idea of a retro foldable phone based on its iconic Razr, it seemed more like a tease than an actual product. Motorola hasn’t been a major competitor in the high-end phone market for years, but the company was going to ship a foldable display …

Apple in September announced its plans for a research app that would allow U.S. consumers to participate in health studies from their Apple devices. Today, that app has gone live for both iPhone and Apple Watch for customers in the U.S. From the new app, Apple Research, users can currently …

  Today, IBM published the results of an internal experiment that undoubtedly sent Apple’s sales team leaping for joy. Since launching its Mac@IBM program, which allowed users a choice in which computer platform they preferred, the company has tracked the results. Said results have been quite favorable for the Mac-using …

  When Intel released its report on 77 CPU bugs and security issues that it recently patched, it didn’t mention anything about any of the security fixes causing performance issues. As far as we know, there aren’t any performance implications for any of the patches we discussed in our previous …