When it comes to Apple Maps, it’s like a big fight
between Google an Apple of who has the better
Maps app. For now, Google still leads the race due
to it’s early start and implementation of new features.

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According to some interesting news about a pending
supercomputer update it seems as if there’s something
fast in the pipe of NVidia’s GPU releases. The University
of Indiana has delayed their second upgrade stage.

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Ever wondered how expensive smoking in
Australia is? Since 2011 the government in
Australia has raised the price for cigarettes
constantly. Now here’s an impressive story.

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New year’s start is through and the
next month comes a-kiockin’. Carnival
takes place in many places mid February yet
it’s quite cold but spring is around the corner…

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This is what happens if you try to piss off a customer.
While the USA has started to ban Huawei products for
national security risk reasons (and the import tax war,
of course!), Huawei has devoloped it’s own ecosystem.

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When it comes to smartwatches, Apple is in the lead even
though there are a lot of Android-based smartwatches on
the market. In general, Apple has a domination with their
smartwatches with an estimated 120 million sold units so far!

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Seems as if Apple has ironed out some nasty glitches and
bugs with their newest iOS release. Among the security flaw
of the parental control app to allow children to add new
contacts without the security code they also solved audio issues

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Still annoyed that your credit card issuer (normally your
primary bank serivce provider) still has no VISA or
MasterCard that can be used with ApplePay? Well then
this card might be interesting for you.

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It seems that some services (especially update delivery)
don’t run flawless today. If you tried to update your iOS
or Apple tvOS to a newer version you might have found
yourself left with an error message that the update failed.

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Can you believe it? The iPad is 10 years old if we take a look
back at the original iPad that has been officially shown by
Apple on January 26th, 2009. By then hardly anybody thought,
the iPad would be a success story of it’s own next to the iPhone.

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If you think you’ve seen it all, then here’s a
new one for the weekend. Google has put up
an experimental project to make your smart-
phone calmer. Yeah, you’ve read right!

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Being member of the Ionity charger network? Well
then you should pay attention to this news! While
charging a car was about 8€ for a complete battery
charge (no matter what car!), it’ll change soon.

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It seems as if Intel has finally noticed that keeping
the prices for their processors artificially high for
more profit is cotraproductive especially with AMD
being in pole position even with server CPUs!

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If you thought, you’ve seen it all, think again. A theme
park in the south of China has opened a new attraction
(Bungee jumping tower, 70m height). To open the tower
officially, they decided for a rather doubtful event.

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The WEF is currently taking place in Davos, Switzerland.
Despite the media presence of some persons the main
topic will be again how to save the climate and how to
reduce the ecolgical footprint of each of us.

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No good times for Intel at the moment. AMD still going
to take the lead in desktop processors while the 3990X
is going to invade Intel’s server and workstation market.
And now there’s a production shortage just ahead.

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The Nintendo Switch is still a remarkable mobile
console and it has good games to play on it. How-
ever the controllers (called Joy-cons) aren’t without
doubts when it comes to ergonomics.

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It took a while until Apple finally brought the
Mac Pro to stores. Now even the rack-mount
version is available in the Apple online store.
There’s one catch: It costs 700 dollars more…

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The next-gen Playstation is still a mystery as there’s
not much known about the console’s specs. However
Sony wants to outdo it’s worst enemy: Microsoft. The
fight about the best console is still present.

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The iPhone 11 Pro is the flagship from Apple when it
comes to smartphones. Apple has invested a lot of
brainpower to equip it with a remarkable camera as
well which is used for professional movie shots.

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Windows 7 support officially ended yesterday and
with it a truly good time of one operating system as
reliable as good ol’ Windows XP. Since today only
customers with ESU subscription will receive updates.

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Yesterday the official support for Windows 7
ended and with it the official support for an
OS that served us well for over ten years. But
Microsoft delivered one last important patch!

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As AMD has already announced the Ryzen
Threadripper 3990X, a 64core beast that has
a lot of power inside and will definitely change
the CPU market, Intel has a counterattack.

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It is well-known that eReaders with eInk displays
today are as flexible as tablet pcs when it comes
to apps and all the stuff they come with. What
hasn’t changed though, is the eInk display…

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Now personally we’d say, we’ve seen it all. But a
gold-plated keyboard? Well, that new to us even
knowing those fancy smartphones that come
covered in gold and cost as much as a house.

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Cherry is well known for producing high-quality
keyboards and key switches. As gaming gets more
and more important for the keyboard industry the
demand for these and the key switches have raised.

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While Windows 7 will soon receive no more updates
(January 14th, 2020), Google has announced yesterday
that they will deliver updates for Chrome browser at
least for the next upcoming18 months.

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USB4 is on the road and has just been presented at
the CES. While USB3.1 Gen2 is limited to 10Gbps,
USB4 starts at 20Gbps and will also have 40Gbps.
Thunderbolt 4 will be USB4 but with all features.

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2019 was already challenging for Intel when AMD
announced the 3rd Gen Threadripper series. Intel
hoped that this would have been the only attack
from AMD. But AMD shifts the next gear…

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After a few tests, we can say that the blog now runs again
as desired. The scheduler for posting blogs on certain dates
works as intended after some trouble. We had to set up the
scheduler from scratch as something went wrong somewhere.

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The CES is fully running till January 9th and there are
already a number of questionable IoT gadgets out there.
For example the toilet and shower head with integrated
Alexa connectivity built by Kohler (a U.S. brand).

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We’re sorry for any inconvenience. A lot of posts haven’t
been automatically posted during our absence. Lots of
Missed schedules occurred leaving the posts in Scheduled
state. We need to investigate more into this.

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