Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. The company plans to market the OS to smartphone handset ...
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IDG News Service - Advanced Micro Devices announced Monday that its chief financial officer, Thomas Seifert, has resigned from his post and that a hunt is on for his replacement. AMD has appointed Devinder Kumar, senior vice president and ...
Lenovo Monday said that its lighter, quicker ThinkPad, unveiled last spring as part of an effort to attract buyers more interested in smartphones and tablets than PCs, will go on sale later this month. Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon. And ...
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IDG News Service - Despite Samsung Electronics' efforts to rectify labor violations at its factories in China, little has changed for some workers. "Samsung had its investigators come to the factory. When they came, they just walked ...
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Apple will manufacture one of its Mac lines exclusively in the U.S. by the end of 2013, CEO Tim Cook told NBC and BusinessWeek in interviews made public today. Analysts saw the move as primarily a public relations ploy, a reaction to ...
IDG News Service - Researchers at the User Interface Software Technology conference this week demonstrated unique projects that took advantage of a new, pressure-sensitive "forcepad" that could debut in ultrabooks as soon as next year. ...
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Dell will continue offering Windows 7 even after the release of Windows 8 at the end of October, the company said. The Windows 7 OS, which reached PCs in October of 2009, will be offered as an option to commercial and gaming customers, ...
Tablets are hot-- so hot that IDC just bumped up its global market forecast for the tablet market for 2012 and beyond. The proliferation of Android tablets of various sizes, the trend toward lower prices and the launch of the Apple iPad ...
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Apple will be the world's largest chip buyer this year because of the surge in demand for the company's products, enabling it to command lower prices and quicker delivery, IHS iSuppli said in research released on Wednesday. The company's ...
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If having to pay $7+ per gigabyte for secure flash drives makes you blanch, take a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad USB 3.0 Secure Hard Drive. At only $200 for 750GBwhich translates to about 4GB per $1and PIN-pad security, it's a lot more ...
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Dell, once the world's biggest PC maker, has seen its quarterly profits slump by 47 per cent year on year to $475m (£300m), with sales to both consumers and businesses down. Third-quarter revenues from consumers were hit ...
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Apple and Samsung have emerged as the global kings of smartphones, tablets and PCs even though the two vendors have very different product and pricing strategies, IDC said Monday. On price, Apple's average selling price (ASP) for all its ...
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The reported slow early sales of Microsoft's Surface RT tablet have raised a question among IT analysts -- does Microsoft truly want to produce boffo sales of the new device? Some analysts say that Microsoft can't afford to have smashing ...
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As Apple prepares to launch its iPhone 5 in China, some analysts expect the product to sell well in the country and possibly even top sales for Apple's previous iPhone models in the country. Apple will finally launch the iPhone 5 in China ...
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Google's new Samsung Chromebook sells for $249. Google today announced a new low-priced clamshell-style Samsung Chromebook computer for $249 that runs the Chrome OS. With an 11.6-in. display, a full-sized Chrome keyboard, overall weight ...
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