At US$99, the mini PC developed by thin-client expert Young Song is meant to be affordable. In fact, the price is so low, most consumers won't hesitate to buy one, he said Wednesday. But unlike other mini PCs that run Windows, this one ...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- While premium cable and satellite television channel Starz has through trial and error evolved its mobile device strategy over the past five years, one technology that employees rejected was dual persona smartphones. ...
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The trusty old laptop is being kicked to the curb, with PC makers trying to spice up their offerings by pushing a variety of hybrids, tablets and smaller-screen devices at the Computex trade show in Taipei this week. Asustek Computer, ...
Nvidia's CEO showed an updated version of the company's Shield portable gaming device at the Computex trade show Tuesday, and said it will start shipping the device later this month to customers who pre-ordered it. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang ...
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ARM is targeting mid-range smartphones and tablets priced between US$200 and $350 with a new low-power Cortex-A12 processor the company announced Monday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The company's processors are used in most of ...
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Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, has become the latest company to back Mozilla's Firefox OS and is developing more than five devices running the mobile operating system for its customers. The Taiwanese ...
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Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. The ...
While Google Glass is currently being viewed as a consumer technology, IT shops and mobile workers are likely already champing at the bit to be able to use a hands-free technology to do their jobs. "The same way that tablets followed ...
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Taiwan's MediaTek has launched a new quad-core ARM processor for tablets that is slated to be used in an upcoming IdeaTab device from Lenovo. The MT8125 chip features a quad-core processor built with ARM's Cortex A7 CPU and can run at up ...
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Users in the U.K. and France will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on the HTC First. The first smartphone to come preinstalled with Facebook Home has been delayed in those countries while Facebook updates the software to address ...
Samsung's mobile division seems to have let another device slip through the spoiler net, with a new leak revealing what appears to be an 8-inch variant of the Galaxy Tab. If confirmed, the new model will sit alongside Samsung's existing ...
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Google’s Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in ...
VMware today announced that its dual persona mobile device software is now available on some Android OS-based mobile devices sold by Verizon. Dual persona technology creates two OS instances, one for business use and the other for ...
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Google's Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event began in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in ...
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Hewlett-Packard has given the "Android treatment" to its latest laptop-tablet hybrid, which is called SlateBook X2 and has a detachable 10-inch screen that can independently function as a tablet. The X2 is HP's second device with Android. ...
Tags: HP, Computer Products, Laptops, Slatebook X2