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The forty-eighth Consumer Electronics Show is almost upon us, and with it comes the next year of technology. Even though the show has died down a bit since its humble beginnings, hundreds of companies show off their latest and greatest in sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. There are many gizmos, gadgets, and vehicles shown off at CES, but here are the best. Acer Chromebook 15 Acer was making news even before CES started by unveiling the largest Chromebook in the world. The Chromebook 15, unsurprisingly, has a fifteen inch display to show off the latest build of Chrome OS. It comes with 1,366 x 758 or 1080p display, and comes with an un-specified fifth generation Intel Broadwell processor. This is the first Broadwell Chromebook to be announced, and we can't tell if there is a notable performance leap compared to last year's Haswell Chromebooks. Nothing else about the Chromebook 15 is worth writing home about, though. The keyboard is decent to type on, the trackpad is somewhat p...

CES 2015 is this week, and hundreds of thousands of people have traveled to Las Vegas to be a part of the madness. Everyone from tech reporters, to company executives, to small startups are there to see what the next year of tech will bring. Thousands of products are unveiled every day at CES, but there are a few you should definitely know about. We'll see game changers and complete failures, and they will all shape the next year of technology. We are here to show you the best of the best from CES 2015, and we will be reporting on it all week long. Stay tuned and get ready for CES 2015 at Tech & Company. 

If you have not been living under a rock for the past 365 days, you would know that a few things happened in 2014. Some of these events are more important than the others, so here is what you need to know from 2014. FCC and Net Neutrality Net Neutrality has been an issue for many years, but 2014 was the year more people started to take notice. If you are one of the many people that still do not know what net neutrality is, it is the issue of broadband providers wanting to treat internet traffic in different ways. This does not sound very important, but it can make the internet a complete nightmare to use. Broadband providers can slow down your internet when you visit certain websites, and even make you pay extra to use them. When you pay $8 a month for Netflix, Comcast or Time Warner Cable will be able to make you pay an extra amount on top of that just to use it. Time Warner can make Spotify stream so slowly that you are forced to use Rdio. We are not quite there yet, ...

As technology constantly evolves, older technology is phased out. Welcome to RIP, our dedication posts to slowly dying technology. The gaming industry has been the star of the technology industry for decades now. Before we had computers on our desks, and way before cell phones were in our pockets, there were video games. Whether it be going down to the arcade, playing Star Wars: Battlefront at home, or duking it out in MarioKart while on the go, almost everyone has played video games. Despite what you may think, people of all ages play some form of video games and that is not going to change anytime soon. I can say without a doubt that someone, somewhere, will always be a gamer. But the times, they are a changin'. Many people don't need a console or handheld to get their gaming fix. Why pay $500 for a Xbox One or $200 for a PS Vita when the iPhone you already have has  Infinity Blade III . And if you do buy a console, is it really worth the bag/purse/gigantic pocket s...

A little more than a week ago, Apple made some new things. The usual new iPhone came out, but it was also accompanied by a much larger iPhone and the long anticipated Apple Watch. Apple has always made great products, and that has not changed much with the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and the Apple Watch. The 6 and 6 Plus have bigger and higher resolution 4.7 inch and 5.5 inch displays, faster processors, improved cameras, and come optimized for iOS 8. The Apple Watch works seamlessly with the iPhones, the 5 and newer, and has a "Digital Crown". There's nothing wrong with these products, and they work quite well. Everything's fast, improved, and just works. Two big iPhones are nice, but they are just that. Apple made a good phone, but why didn't they make a great  phone? Apple has been making gorgeous, intuitive, and fantastic products for quite some time. There's no argument about it. Save for the 3G and 3GS, every iPhone has been a beautiful engineering feat...

In just this month we had Apple and Amazon already unveil some of their most exciting things of the year. Apple released their refreshed look and features for OS X Yosemite, and Amazon released another buying machine. This week, Google is strutting their stuff at I/O in San Francisco. Whether or not you believe that Google is making killer robots to wipe out mankind, Google did manage to show off some pretty neat non-lethal software. Let's dive in. Android One will probably have the biggest impact on the world. It is designed to be used in developing markets, and it will provide people with high quality and low cost smartphones, somewhat like the recent Nexuses but much cheaper. The reference hardware will have a 4.5 inch screen, FM radio, dual SIM card slots, an SD card slot, and it will be available for under $100. Micromax, Karbon, and Spice are the first hardware partners for Android One when it goes to India later this fall. Don't worry, it will go worldwide late...

Welcome to Gigabits, a new kind of post that gives you what you need to know. Earlier today Amazon released their much rumored smartphone, now known as the Fire Phone. It is essentially another method Amazon has to get you to buy their services. It has mid-range specs with a 4.7 inch 720p display, 13 megapixel camera, 2GB of RAM, and Snapdragon processor. Nothing will really wow you here, but it will not let you down either. Amazon claims that the camera does better in low light than the competition, but we'll have to wait for some full reviews to agree with that. What Amazon lacks in hardware, they somewhat make up for in software. The Fire Phone's operating system looks very similar to that on the Kindle tablets, but it has a few extra tricks. It uses special sensors and four front-facing cameras to add some gesture and 3D effects. Your wallpapers have realistic depth to them, you can move your phone from side to side to get more information, and you can have menus s...