Apple retained the top spot in a survey released by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which also found that the tablet market is spurring PC makers to improve the quality of their products. The satisfaction rate for computers, ...
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Built on 22nm processes using 3D Tri-Gate transistors Intel has officially launched its new processor design, Ivy Bridge, which features a three-dimensional "Tri-Gate" transistor array and more updates. The company said the ...
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Both the firms have formed partnership in June this year Chip maker AMD has revealed plans to develop server chips based on the low-power designs of UK-based Arm Holdings. Arm-based chips are currently used in most smartphones ...
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Computerworld-Given a choice,customers of a Pacific Northwest PC system builder overwhelming pick Windows 7 over the newer Windows 8,the company's president said Thursday. "Windows 7 is known,it has years of solid reputation behind it,but ...
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A senior Microsoft executive on Tuesday said the company has sold 40 million licenses for Windows 8,essentially matching the first month performance of Windows 7 in late 2009. "We have sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses so far,"said Tami ...
Lenovo,already China's top PC seller,is expected to take the title for the country's top smartphone vendor in 2013,Gartner said. It made the prediction as Lenovo's swift growth in China's smartphone market has exceeded the research firm's ...
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Hewlett-Packard is taking an $8.8 billion charge as a result of what it called serious accounting improprieties that occurred at U.K. software company Autonomy before it acquired the firm in 2011. Taking the charge into account, HP ...
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Looking beyond PCs and tablets,Lenovo on Monday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group,which deals in servers,storage,networking and software. The ThinkServer TD330 is a tower server based on Intel's ...
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Hewlett-Packard has outlined a turnaround plan that includes slashing the number of PC models it sells by 25 percent over the next two years. At its financial analyst day in San Francisco on Wednesday,HP also painted a weak financial ...
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HP has announced the appointment of Robert Youngjohns to run its Autonomy software arm,ending a search that began in June after the sudden departure of Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch. Youngjohns previously worked at Sun ...
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IDG News Service-Growth in the PC market is expected to be slower than last year,after mid-year shipments slowed as consumers were hit by weak economic conditions,and also postponed purchases to evaluate Windows 8 and Ultrabook products ...
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PC maker Dell has warned that it expects third-quarter revenue to be down between 2%and 5%on second-quarter levels because of the"uncertain economic environment". Dell also blamed"competitive dynamics"and"soft consumer business"for its ...
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Dell announced that former HP Networking Division head Marius Haas has joined the firm on the same day as it released disappointing Q2 financial results. Haas will succeed Brad Anderson, who has been Dell's Enterprise Solutions chief ...
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IDG News Service-Wi-Fi chip makers are lining up to add WiGig technology to their wireless LAN products,preparing the way for tri-band equipment that can deliver multi-gigabit speeds within a room. On Monday,Marvell Technology Group ...
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