Apple today dropped prices of its Retina-equipped 13-in. MacBook Pro by as much as $300, and lowered the price of its top-end MacBook Air by $100. Some models of the company's laptop line also received processor speed increases, with the ...
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For those who call tablets personal computers, Apple Inc. is the world's top PC maker, according to research firm Canalys. Canalys reported Wednesday that one in five PCs shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012 was an Apple device, and most ...
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Surface RT finding a place in the tablet market "is not going to happen" while Surface Pro isn't "going to make a dent either". So said ex-Microsoft senior vice president Joachim Kempin when asked to assess the company's chances of ...
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The release of Microsoft's Windows 8 touchscreen-enabled operating system in October saw manufacturers scurry to release a spate of new notebooks, all-in-one computers and tablet devices capable of using it. With Windows 8 you can open ...
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Apple Australia says it is making some MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models more affordable with faster processors and lower starting prices. In Australia,the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display will now cost from $1,649 for a device ...
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Touch control becomes the necessary specifications and NB Factories are trapped into capacity battle. The Wintel pushes touch notebook, NB’s brand factory discloses blueprint on the Intel platform that touch control will be necessary ...
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's low-end Surface Pro tablet, slated to start shipping Feb. 9, sports just 23GB of free storage space out of the box, Microsoft confirmed today. The 64GB Surface Pro, which will sell for $899, uses more than 60% of its flash ...
Lextar Electronics Corp says that its official merger with Wellypower Optronics Co Ltd - both of Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan and LED subsidiaries of Taiwan-based display panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) - is set to take place on 1 February. ...
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Lextar Electronics has announced that its official merger with Wellypower Optronics is set to take place on February 1, 2013. Upon the merger of the two LED subsidiaries of AU Optronics (AUO), Lextar will have a capital value of NT$5 ...
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U.S. market research firm NPD DisplaySearch (hereinafter referred to as "NPD") announced the Tablet PC market forecast on Jan.7. The report says, in 2013, global shipments of tablet PCs will reach 240 million units, exceeding ...
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In a move designed to enhance the use of the iPad professionally, Apple said the larger-storage iPad would suite users seeking to store large CAD files, X-rays, film edits, music tracks, project blueprints, training videos and service ...
Google today announced it would again host its Pwnium hacking contest at a March security conference, but boosted the maximum amount it will pay to $3.14 million and changed the target to its browser-based operating system, Chrome OS. ...
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Samsung's name for its upmarket Ativ tablet device - "Smart PC Pro" - is confusing. It is, after all, a tablet with an attachable keyboard, not a traditional PC as we know it. It is in the mould of the well-established ASUS transformer ...
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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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