Some transitions are seamless while others are disruptive. Moving from Google Play Music to YouTube was somewhere in-between those extremes.

Mobile chipmaking giant Qualcomm has petitioned the U.S. government to let it provide smartphone chipsets to Huawei.

Thanks to withering U.S. sanctions, smartphone giant Huawei this week said that it will have to halt production of its own chipsets.

A more suitable suitor for beleaguered social network TikTok has emerged: According to reports, Twitter has now spoken to the firm about a sale.

With Microsoft expected to formally launch the Surface Duo in coming days, some promotional renders have leaked via Twitter.

Toshiba this week confirmed that it has sold the remaining stake in its laptop business to Sharp and is formally exiting the PC market.

While I know that the Pixel 4a will never meet my needs, I can’t ignore what I feel is the single-best value in the smartphone market today.

Happy Friday, and welcome to August, such as it is. Here’s another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend.

On this live edition of First Ring Daily, Ignite turns into a Duo, xCloud splits for iOS, and there was a re-org.

On this edition of the Sams Report, there is a massive re-org at Microsoft, xCloud is fighting Apple, and Xbox Live Gold goes free - sorta.

Apple has been quietly waging war against its own developers for years in an effort to grab as many revenues as possible from its ecosystem.

Microsoft will still hold a virtual Ignite conference in September as planned, but it will now hold a second Ignite in early 2021 as well.

A new report claims that Microsoft is attempting to purchase TikTok’s entire global business and not just its U.S.-based assets.

Google today released the third and final beta of Android 11 and says that the final Android 11 release is coming very soon.

We have seen internal Microsoft documents describing a massive reorganization of its Windows business, which is now called Windows + Devices.

An Android blog has obtained what it says are Google internal documents that describe several upcoming Pixel handsets.

Leo, Mary Jo, and Paul discuss Microsoft's terrible plan to buy TikTok, Cortana getting dropped from everything but Halo, an Xbox newsapalooza, and much more.

Google is expected to announce the Pixel 5 in October, but the firm has taken the unprecedented step of discontinuing its predecessors months early.

Parallels is porting its Desktop virtualization solution to Chrome OS for Enterprise so that users can run Windows apps locally on Chromebooks.

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Apple stiffs xCloud, Android apps on your desktop, and a Tok of Tik. 

In the wake of its legal challenge to Google, Sonos has finally gone after the market leader, Amazon, albeit indirectly.

Nintendo is the latest beneficiary of the COVID-19 lockdown: Sales of Switch hardware and software has surged during the pandemic.

Testers who were using Microsoft’s Project xCloud received some bad news this week when the beta expired a month earlier than expected.

The HP Envy 15 is a beast of a laptop aimed at content creators who want an affordable no-compromises mobile workstation.

Razer has a new peripheral that is designed to make xCloud gaming better but it doesn't come cheap.

Google today announced the release of Flutter 1.20, the next major release of its cross-platform app development framework.