Taipei,Sept.20,2012(CENS)--The launch of the Win8 from Microsoft on October 25 will likely drive demand for medium&large-sized touch panels,with production value of OGS(one glass solution)touch panels to exceed US$2.8 billion next ...
Tags: Taiwan, panel suppliers, computer products, boom
IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced new Pavilion Sleekbooks, which the company is pitching as laptops that are cheaper than ultrabooks but competitive in weight and thickness. The new Pavilion Sleekbooks will come in ...
Tags: Sleekbooks, Cheaper, Ultrabook Alternatives
The wireless standard dubbed WiGig is set to launch in products in 2013, enabling users to connect all mobile and desktop devices without wires. The Wireless Gigabit Alliance formed in 2009 to create the WiGig standard, which will run ...
Tags: WiGig, desktop devices, Wireless Gigabit, Wi-Fi
Intel on Thursday showed off technologies for the future that are designed to improve the computing experience by extending the battery life of PCs, making devices smaller and enabling always-on communications. In a keynote with the theme ...
Tags: Intel, US, computer technology, Processors
IDG News Service-Intel has ported Google's Android 4.1 OS,called Jelly Bean,to work on smartphones based on the low-power Atom chips code-named Medfield. "I'm running it,"said Mike Bell,Intel's vice president and general manager of the ...
Tags: Intel, Android, Google, smartphones
Bill Moggridge, the British industrial designer credited with inventing the modern laptop, has died from cancer at the age of 69. In 1979 Moggridge designed the Grid Compass, the first computer to attach a keyboard to a folding screen. ...
Tags: Bill Moggridge, PC brigade, Grid Compass, industrial designer
Intel said it has improved performance and graphics in the upcoming version of its Core chip line,while also slashing power consumption by a whopping 41%. That,say industry analysts,could help laptop manufacturers build and sell,thinner ...
Thin film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel manufacturers, AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) and Chimei Innolux Corp. (CMI), of Taiwan attended the just-ended International Touch Panel and Optical Film Exhibition (Touch Taiwan) 2012, ...
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced an Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid device with the Windows 8 OS,signaling the company's re-entry into the consumer tablet market,which it abandoned after the highly publicized failure of its TouchPad ...
Details of Intel's upcoming Atom platform have been leaked,with the next-gen system taking firm aim at rival manufacture ARM and representing the biggest evolution of Atom since its 2008 arrival. Codenamed Bay Trail and scheduled for a ...
Microsoft's new Windows RT tablets will cost up to$300(£191)less than their Windows 8 counterparts,PC maker Lenovo has said. Microsoft will launch its latest operating system on 26 October and in order to gain traction in the ...
Microsoft's new Windows RT tablets will cost up to$300(£191)less than their Windows 8 counterparts,PC maker Lenovo has said. Microsoft will launch its latest operating system on 26 October and in order to gain traction in the ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows RT tablets, Windows 8 counterparts, PC maker, Lenovo
Dell has dropped two places to fourth largest PC supplier in Western Europe as it strives to transform from PC manufacturer to services organisation. According to Gartner's latest PC shipment figures, a total of 13.6 million units were ...
Tags: Dell, PC, HP, Acer, market share, mobile PCs, desktop PCs
IDG News Service-After more than 25 years the venerable VGA port is finally disappearing from computers,but the interface is proving tough to phase out completely and will linger for years in projectors,monitors and TV sets. The VGA(Video ...
Tags: VGA Ports, VGA hardware, home computers, Digital Flat Panel
AU Optronics (AUO) president Paul Peng has indicated plans to mass produce 4.3-inch AMOLED panels in the third quarter. The product has resolutions up to 257ppi, the highest AMOLED resolution in the industry. Peng said the company ...
Tags: AMOLED panel