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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Shares of PC-related companies have slumped as IDC said PC sales fell 14% in Q1 compared to Q12012. IDC called the magnitude of the decline "surprising and worrisome." "The Windows 8 launch not only didn't provide a positive boost to ...
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Entrust, Inc. today announced industry-leading updates to its popular mobile smart credential. In addition to offering a multi-purpose digital identity for secure physical, logical and cloud access, the Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart ...
Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console is going to use AMD processors. Bloomberg reports that sources close to the "Xbox 720" games system say it will use an AMD computer chip instead of the IBM Power PC, as Microsoft looks to reduce ...
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Microsoft has sold its Mediaroom IPTV platform to Ericsson in order to solely focus on the Xbox. For Ericsson, the deal will make it the largest provider of "IPTV and multi-screen solutions," it said onMonday. The two companies didn't ...
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Microsoft today kicked off a new promotion aimed at Windows XP customers, who have just one year to ditch the 12-year-old OS before it's retired from support. Small- and medium-sized businesses still running Windows XP and Office 2003 -- ...
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Facebook could charge UK users over £10 to message people who are not within their social sphere, including celebrities. The site is likely to charge between 70p and £10 per message to those who aren't "friends", with the ...
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The easy upgrades to Windows XP have already been done, migration experts said, predicting that a large number of enterprises will still be running the aged OS a year from now. Microsoft plans to retire Windows XP from all support, ...
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The move would reduce the cost of building machines Microsoft will incorporate processors manufactured by AMD in its next Xbox gaming console as part of its efforts to reduce the cost of building machines and attract developers to create ...
Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals at a rate of 20Gbps. This is the first big speed boost for the interconnect, which has ...
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PCs and mobile devices connected to peripherals via USB ports will in the future be able to transfer data at twice the speed possible today. A new specification that doubles the data transfer over USB to 10Gbps is in the works, said the ...
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The more information that leaks about Windows 8's expected summer upgrade, dubbed "Blue" by Microsoft, the more questions that pop up, analysts said today. And with very few exceptions, customers don't have answers. The latest tidbit ...
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As Samsung seeks to challenge the dominance of the?BlackBerry Enterprise Server platform in the business market, it has now struck a mobile device management technology deal with Absolute Software. Absolute's technology is used to deliver ...
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Taiwanese foundry TSMC has 'taped out' production of ARMs 64-bit Cortex-A57 using a 16-nanometre process. Taping out is the final stage before fabrication and mass production. The microprocessors could mount a growing challenge to Intel ...
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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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