Taiwanese PC maker Asus plans on getting behind Google's Chrome OS and will launch a notebook running the OS in the second half of this year, said company CEO Jerry Shen. The Google-developed OS is still in its early stages, but "market ...
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Taiwan-based Radiant Opto-Electronics shipped 8.143 million LED backlight units (BLU) in April, dropping 22.68% on month and consisting of 7.008 million units used in notebooks, 1.023 million units used in monitors, 62,000 units used in TVs ...
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Retailers share part of the blame for poor Windows 8 sales and the ensuing decline of PC shipments, analysts contended today. Microsoft's radical overhaul of Windows has been cited by some to explain plummeting PC shipments, but the very ...
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Google's move this week to make it easier for Chrome browser users to find "packaged apps," Chrome OS's souped-up Web apps, is part of its strategy to turn any Internet-capable device into a Chromebook wannabe loyal to the company's ...
Asana has beefed up its workplace task management software to make it viable for enterprises with thousands of users. Specifically, the product now features more comprehensive views across team projects for both business managers and ...
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Founded in 1941, the Carolina Blueberry Association is the oldest farmer-owned cooperative in North Carolina. Based in Garland, N.C., the co-op’s 24 growers bring fresh and frozen blueberries to stores across North America. In an ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday defended the company's iconic Mac line, which saw a second consecutive decline in sales last quarter, and promised that Apple would continue to crank out personal computers. "I don't think this [personal ...
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Microsoft's Surface Pro will finally be available in the UK next month, with the announcement that the tablet will be shipped to 19 countries, mostly across Europe and Oceania before the end of May. It will also launch in Korea, Malaysia, ...
Intel's outgoing CEO took a few parting shots at Microsoft's Windows 8 Tuesday as he explained a slump in both revenue and profits for the first quarter. Paul Otellini, who will retire from Intel next month, joined a chorus of others, ...
Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android today, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Speaking at a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal's All Things D, ...
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Microsoft's top executive for mobile phones took shots at both iOS and Android on Tuesday, calling Apple's operating system "boring" and claiming Google's is "a mess." Speaking at a conference hosted by the Wall Street Journal's All ...
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Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst said today. "It wasn't about Windows 8, it was much more about the price challenges facing OEMs," said Stephen Baker of the NPD Group, citing U.S. retail sales data the firm ...
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China-based LED chip packaging houses have been extending their presence from small-size LED BLUs (backlight units) to large-size models in the China market, posing potential competitive pressure on Taiwan-based fellow makers in the China ...
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Once a white-hot PC product that sold in the tens of millions of units annually, netbook computers are now marking their final days, with the rise of tablets causing their shipments to wind down to virtually zero after next year, according ...
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing a 128-gigabit (Gb), 3-bit multi-level-cell (MLC) NAND memory chip using sub-20 nanometer (nm)-class process technology. The flash chip will be used to create Samsung's ...
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