Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to improve by advancing chip and manufacturing technologies. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich ...
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Change is in the air for Microsoft in response to?ho-hum sales of Windows 8, and it sounds like PC makers couldn't be happier. Citing various PC industry executives in Asia, the?Wall Street Journal reports?that Microsoft is being more ...
Microsoft is retooling the latest version of its Windows operating system to address complaints and confusion that have been blamed for deepening a slump in personal computer sales. The tune up won't be released to consumers and ...
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Taiwanese PC maker Asus plans on getting behind Google's Chrome OS and will launch a notebook running the OS in the second half of this year, said company CEO Jerry Shen. The Google-developed OS is still in its early stages, but "market ...
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Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already releasing teasers that talk about their performance. The Haswell laptop chip will deliver ...
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Apple announced its fiscal 2013 second quarter results yesterday, which saw a net profit of $9.5bn (£6.2bn), a fall from the $11.6bn (£7.5bn) net profit in the same quarter last year. But while profits have fallen for the ...
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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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The looming retirement of Windows XP won't stem the dramatic drop in PC sales this year, but it may help bolster Microsoft's revenue, analysts said today. Although experts expect some business laggards to buy new hardware as they try to ...
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A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, IDC said. Worldwide PC shipments in the ...
Products based on a USB specification that will double the data transfer rates between host devices and peripherals will reach the market in late 2014, the USB Implementers Forum said on Thursday. The standards-setting organization is ...
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Intel's Atom processors designed for netbooks could be on their last leg, with analysts saying that the chip maker could be tweaking its product road map as PC sales tumble and tablet adoption widens. Intel's most recent Atom processor ...
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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MICROSOFT'S Windows 8 operating systems and new form factors such as ultrabooks not only have failed to lift the lift the PC markets, they've presided over a massive decline. Worldwide sales of personal computers slid 13.9 per cent in the ...
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THE ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it's starting to look like it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices reshapes the way people use technology. The latest evidence of the PC's infirmity ...
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A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8 and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, according to the latest report from research ...
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