Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
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Apple's iPad has lost ground in the tablet market,with Android devices gaining momentum during the third quarter,according to a report by IDC. Q3 saw worldwide tablet shipments reach 28 million,up 50 per cent on the same period last ...
Tags: iPad, tablet market, drops, smartphones, iPad Mini
Microsoft will"die and disappear"within the next few years,futurist and ex-CTO of BT,Peter Cochrane,has told Computing. "Microsoft will die and disappear in the next few years.There is no convergence in IT–what we see is ...
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Apple has announced the departure of two high profile executives in the firm's biggest management shakeup since co-founder Steve Jobs stepped down as chief executive. The announcement comes after embarrassing accuracy problems with ...
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The imminent arrival of Hurricane Sandy has caused Google to cancel an event in New York today where it was to show off new Nexus devices. The"super storm"has seen US authorities shutting down much of the Atlantic seaboard,putting the ...
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Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 8, has been welcomed by a security expert, who cites a raft of tweaks and new features as beneficial for the protection of computers running the software. The most significant change, according to ...
Apple has blamed rumours about the iPad Mini for lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal fourth quarter. The profits of $8.2bn (£5.1bn) are slightly lower than analysts expected, but up on the $6.6bn (£4.1bn) the firm made in ...
Amazon made a net loss in the third quarter,its first loss in nine years,even as revenue increased by 27%year on year. The$274 million third-quarter loss compared with a net profit of$63 million a year earlier.Net sales grew to$13.8 ...
Apple disappointed analysts with its iPad sales figures when it announced its fourth quarter results for 2012. The numbers were dominated by the iPhone,selling 26.9 million in the three months to 29 September,which equated to a 58%rise ...
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Along with the long-rumored iPad Mini, Apple yesterday also refreshed its two best-selling Macs, the 13-in. MacBook Pro and the iMac. The MacBook Pro got most of the attention, as it followed its larger sibling, the 15-in. notebook by the ...
IDG News Service-Sharp said Tuesday that mobile devices using its new IGZO display technology,which can triple battery life while offering higher touch sensitivity,are about to surge. The company decline to provide specific details,but ...
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IDG News Service-A workers'rights group has slammed what it called the"iPad mini manufacturer"for maintaining poor working conditions at a factory in China. On the eve of an Apple event at which the company is widely expected to launch a ...
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Along with the long-awaited iPad Mini announcement today,Apple revealed what it called its Fusion Drive,which combines the high performance of NAND flash memory with the storage capacity of a hard disk drive(HDD). The Fusion Drive will be ...
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Taipei,Oct.15,2012--AU Optronics Corp.(AUO),a major maker of thin film transistor-liquid crystal display(TFT-LCD)panel in Taiwan,has replaced old photo masks to overcome problems in production of display panels for Apple`s new iPad ...
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Claims by a German website that Apple will price the iPad Mini starting at€249 were met today with skepticism by an analyst who two months ago projected the opening price would be$299 in the U.S. In a screenshot published by the ...