According to Gartner, over 2.4 billion devices will be sold worldwide during 2013, marking a 9 percent increase from 2012. In its latest report, the research firm used the term “worldwide devices” to mean the combined ...
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Intel's upcoming "Bay Trail" Atom processor is aimed at the low-end market, and promises to deliver convertible PCs and notebooks with all-day battery life at budget prices, the company said on Wednesday. "We think this is going to ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its AWL9581 front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) is being used in the latest WiFi module of Murata Manufacturing Company Ltd ...
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Ever have a random encounter with a co-worker in your office (no, not that kind…we’re pretty sure there’s a company policy against those sorts of shenanigans) that resulted in a great idea? Maybe a conversation about a ...
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SALES of traditional desktop and mobile personal computers are expected to drop 7.6 per cent this year as consumers shift to tablets and other devices, a market tracker says. The report by research firm Gartner said all connected devices ...
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LCD panel makers in Taiwan, Japan and Korea have been suffering. Despite the growing demand for LCDs the high number of panel makers and new competition from China has resulted in tough price competition for panel makers, to the point that ...
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Microsoft could rake in more than $1 billion in revenue in the first year after launching Office for Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms, an analyst said today. Gerry Purdy, principal of MobileTrax, did a back-of-the-envelope ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) yesterday awarded Microsoft 13 design patents for its Surface line of tablets, including their innovative Touch keyboards-slash-covers, according to published documents. The baker's dozen were ...
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Zinio today announced a strategic partnership with Nokia to launch the world's largest digital newsstand exclusively to Nokia Lumia smartphone customers. The Zinio Windows Phone 8 app debuts a new look and feel that has been optimized ...
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Microsoft today announced it would start pushing updated versions of several long-criticized Windows 8 apps, including Mail, Calendar and People, the "Modern"-style program for keeping track of contacts, to the Windows Store tomorrow. ...
Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a net loss in last year's fourth quarter, weighed down by a US$120 million write-off related to its Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell product brands. Acer said on Tuesday its fourth quarter loss reached ...
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Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a net loss in last year’s fourth quarter, weighed down by a US$120 million write-off related to its Gateway, eMachines and Packard Bell product brands. Acer said on Tuesday its fourth quarter loss ...
As PC sales remain sluggish, analysts expect Taiwanese vendors Acer and Asustek Computer to try to seize today's changing tech market with low-end Android tablets, for which consumer demand is high. Acer hopes to ship up to 10 million ...
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The average annual growth of DRAM content per PC will decline to a record low of 17.4% this year says IHS. This is some way down from the peak growth year for DRAM content growth in PCs which was 56% in 2007 followed by 50% in 2008. ...
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Although the average amount of DRAM shipping with PCs has continued to grow since its peak in 2007, the annual increases are getting smaller, which indicates a historical drop in what PCs need, according to a report by IHS iSuppli. While ...