Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner, describes the rise of the PC as the “revival of the global PC market”, as he remarks that, while 2013 has seen a 9.5% dip in ultraportables, desktops and hybrids, such as the Apple Macbook Air, or the Microsoft Surface, this year Atwal expects the PC market to suffer barely a 2.9% decrease in sales.

No announcement has been made by either China Telecom or Apple, in this regard, yet Chinese users have been experiencing faster speeds, due to proximity with the local data centers.

According to The Inf​ormation, the concept behind this partnership is to enable corporate employees to use Google Now to retrieve company information, such as inventory data, sales statistics, invoices, and other internal information, the same way a regular user would “OK Google” a nearby restaurant, or the cheapest gas station.

According to Yole Developments, a French market research firm, there is a chance the iPhone 6 screens might not get even a micron of Sapphire Glass, although fingerprint scanners and camera lenses are still likely to get the Sapphire treatment.