Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market. ...
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BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins' prediction this week that tablets would decline in popularity flies in the face of widespread industry forecasting for an explosion of tablet shipments through 2017. But his comments also provoked debate on ...
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Apple and Amazon tables score with their users, according to a recent study by J.D. Power and Associates. The 2013 U.S. Tablet Satisfaction StudySM—Volume 1 released today notes that Apple ranks highest among manufacturers of tablets ...
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Net income declined to $2.04bn for the quarter Intel has reported a slight decrease in its first quarter revenue to $12.6bn, compared to $12.9bn for the corresponding period in 2011, partly due to PC sales slide. Revenue declined 7%, ...
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Intel, the world's largest chip manufacturer, has not adjusted its sales forecasts for 2013, despite a drop in first quarter revenue and a slump in PC sales. Revenue for Q1 2013 was $12.6bn (£8.2bn), down from $12.9bn (£8.4bn) ...
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MICROSOFT is moving to bolster its new tablet fleet as declining sales of PCs create concerns around sales of Windows 8. The Wall St Journal reports Microsoft is developing a fresh range of its Surface tablets, including a 7-inch screen ...
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The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report. The Android device will be made by Asustek, and Google hopes to ship 8 ...
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Yesterday, Samsung released its latest Tablet PC products GALAXY Note 8.0, which has been speculated that Samsung specifically launched to compete with Apple iPad mini. Last year, Samsung introduced a 10-inch flat-panel Note10.1 and ...
News Corporation has taken the wraps off its new tablet computer for the school market, saying the device would use "digital innovation to transform teaching and learning". Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate showed the Amplify device at ...
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Tablet phone is sweeping through the mobile world with lightning speed. On the 2013 Barcelona mobile pageant, handset manufacturers showed a series of large-screen smart phone, while new Tablet PC products significantly reduced. Some of ...
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Sony's Xperia Tablet Z will go on sale globally in the second quarter, priced from$499in the U.S. The 10-inch tablet will be just 6.9 millimeters thick, with an 1,920 by 1,200 pixel HD screen and a new quad core processor from Qualcomm, ...
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Hewlett-Packard has sold some of the rights to its webOS mobile operating system to LG Electronics for use in smart TVs made by the South Korean electronics firm. LG has agreed to acquire the source code, webOS engineering team and other ...
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HP has sold some of its webOS mobile operating system rights to LG Electronics, which will use the platform in it smart television sets. LG has agreed to acquire the source code, webOS engineering team and other assets from HP, in a deal ...
Canonical has introduced the Ubuntu tablet interface, which will compete with Android, iOS and Windows with its own take on multitasking and advanced security features. The launch is the next step in Canonical's quest to unify phones, ...
Apple may introduce the new iPad mini with resolution of 2,048 by 1536, and that would increase the device's production cost by more than US$12/unit. If the prices and specifications of all other components stay the same, the new iPad mini ...
Tags: Apple, iPad mini, Retina Display