Size (and mobility) matters. As desktop PCs lose ground to tablets and smartphones, and the cloud becomes a more mainstream means for software deployment, desktop applications are being elbowed aside by mobile apps and Web services, ...
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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, ...
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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Facebook could charge UK users over £10 to message people who are not within their social sphere, including celebrities. The site is likely to charge between 70p and £10 per message to those who aren't "friends", with the ...
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Taiwanese foundry TSMC has 'taped out' production of ARMs 64-bit Cortex-A57 using a 16-nanometre process. Taping out is the final stage before fabrication and mass production. The microprocessors could mount a growing challenge to Intel ...
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Almost 2.4 billion computers, tablets and cell phones will ship this year, according to estimates from Gartner. That's a jump of 9% on 2012, and the industry has plenty more growth ahead. By 2017, Gartner expects just under 3 billion of ...
SALES of tablet computers will surpass sales of both desktop and portable PC sales by 2014. A report by the research firm IDC said worldwide shipments of these devices -- personal computers, tablets and smartphones -- grew 29.1 per cent ...
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Burgeoning markets in developing countries are favouring simpler hardware providers like Nokia over more high-end producers like Apple. While Apple's dominance in western markets is set to be tested today (14 March) by the launch of ...
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Seven years after the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony has disclosed details about its new PlayStation 4 gaming console, which it said will be out by the end of this year. Sony introduced its latest console at an event in New York City ...
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Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...
Microsoft reported a drop in profit for the second quarter of its fiscal year, though revenue increased, thanks partly to a 24 percent jump in sales from its Windows division. Microsoft's revenue increased 2.7 percent to US$21.46 billion ...
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Unit shipments of PC microprocessors to rise 3.2%. Worldwide revenues for microprocessors designed for mobile PCs, desktop PCs, and PC servers are expected to increase by 1.6% to $40.7bn in 2013, according to a new forecast report from ...
Tags: PC microprocessor, mobile PCs, desktop PCs
Led by new sound bars, docking speakers and connected Blu-ray Disc players, LG Electronics (LG) today unveiled its 2013 audio and video lineup. Previewing the official launch at next month's International CES in Las Vegas, LG announced a ...
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Online retailer, Americal.com, is offering affordable prices on all DVD burners just in time for the holiday season. While burners can be found in countless laptops and desktop PCs, those that will be duplicating DVD and Blu Ray will want ...
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