Computerworld-Apple's new 7.9-in.iPad mini will be a huge hit with business users as well as consumers,several industry analysts predicted Tuesday. Why? It starts with the$329 price tag for a Wi-Fi-only 16 GB version,making it ...
Computerworld-Late next year,consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone:one for personal use,one for work. The technology could ...
Tags: Dual-identity smartphones, app, the bring-your-own-device(BYOD)
Computer sellers have scaled back their expectations of the sales pop they'll get from Windows 8 this year,an analyst said today. Brian White,of Topeka Capital Markets,said that his checks of Asian computer manufacturers--the relatively ...
Tags: Windows 8 PC, sales weak
Nestle has won the latest legal spat in its chocolate war with Cadbury after it stopped its rival from copying the shape of its KitKat fingers. Nestle was protecting KitKat's four-fingered design Rowntree launched the KitKat in the ...
Tags: Nestle, legal spat, chocolate war, Cadbury, KitKat fingers
Samsung is building a tablet based on Windows RT for release sometime in October, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Bloomberg news service. Samsung joins Acer and Asus, among other device makers, to build the touchscreen ...
Tags: Samsung, Windows RT, Microsoft, ARM chips
Usually, when we reference the offices of yesteryear, we’re pointing out how much better things are today than they used to be. After all, who among us would trade a flexible work schedule and wireless networking for the 9-to-5 grind ...
Tags: wireless networking, office furniture, office furnishing, furniture
Google announced a new version of Android this week with some impressive new features, but it's unclear if it's done enough to solve a problem that has dogged its mobile OS: fragmentation. Even as it announced the imminent launch of ...
Tags: Google, Android, Jelly Bean, new features
Dell completed its acquisition of Wyse Technology just last month and is now hiring, and not cutting, employees. Over the next year or so, Dell plans to add more than 200 employees, from engineering to marketing, to the approximately 525 ...
Tags: Dell, employees, hiring, acquisition, Wyse Technology
The first teardown of an iPad Mini showed few surprises, but the team that took apart Apple's new smaller tablet said it was "extremely difficult" for do-it-yourselfers to repair. iFixit.com, which regularly rips apart devices sold by ...
A court in California said Thursday that it would consider Samsung Electronics' concern that the foreman of the jury deciding a patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Samsung had concealed information. A jury in California decided ...
Tags: Samsung, Apple, court, California, jury foreman
The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a program to certify products that support TDLS (Tunneled Direct Link Setup), a technology that allows devices to automatically create a link between each other after accessing a wireless network, removing ...
Tags: Wi Fi, Computer Products, tunnel technology, wireless performance
Amazon.com launched a free online tool that will help schools and businesses centrally control and distribute content on Kindle devices to their students and staff, it said Wednesday. The new service, called Whispercast for Kindle, can ...
Tags: Amazon.com, free online tool, Kindle
The next version of Microsoft Office is complete and will start to reach enterprise customers next month, with general availability planned for early next year, Microsoft said Thursday. The Office engineering team marked the "release to ...
Tags: Microsoft Office, Computer Products, RTM, Microsoft
Computerworld - Tablets seem to be heading in two directions: There are those primarily designed for consumption of books, movies and other content, and those intended for content creation as well as consumption. That distinction is ...
Tags: Nook Tablets, Camera, 7-in.Nook HD, processing power, display resolution
c, forcing U.S. and Canadian customers who want one Friday to head to the company's permanent and special holiday "pop-up" stores. As of Saturday, the $599 32GB and $699 64GB models packaged with a Touch Cover were shipping one to two ...
Tags: Microsoft, Surface RT, tablet, delay-before-shipping