As the PC desktop and laptop market slumps and the tablet market grows, it might seem obvious to tablet users why that's so. However, details shared by analysts dramatically highlight three reasons behind robust tablet growth. Tablets are ...
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Developed by nu desine, the AlphaSphere is a brand new electronic musical instrument and controller. With capabilities to revolutionize the way users interact with music technology, this sphere’s touch interface is made up of 48 ...
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Microsoft will launch a new line of Surface tablets later this year, including one or more smaller 7-in. devices, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report was published just hours after research firms IDC and Gartner spelled out a ...
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sjennings There’s no need to buy brand new office furniture for your small business when there are so many low-cost, high-end used pieces in need of a new home. Unlike home furniture, most likely your office furniture hasn’t ...
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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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The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report. The Android device will be made by Asustek, and Google hopes to ship 8 ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has provisionally denied Apple's trademark application for "iPad Mini" because the term is "merely descriptive" of the tablet's size. Notice of the rejection was mailed to Apple on Jan. 25, but ...
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Microsoft has relaxed a Windows 8 certification requirement to allow devices with lower resolutions, a move analysts said signaled Microsoft would soon join the accelerating shift to smaller, less expensive tablets. "The sub-eight-inch ...
According to the firm, they automatically detect direction and take highly accurate speed and length measurements of paper or plastic, even if the line stops or goes into reverse. Scantron said that this reduces scrap, increases uptime ...
Are we getting lazy - lazy enough to spur an entire industry dedicated to eliminating cables for transferring photos from cameras to our desktops? The work involved in plugging in a USB cable to a camera port, and the other end into a PC, ...
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Aggressive sales of smaller tablets triggered a revised tablet sales forecast today by IDC, which upped its projections by 11% for 2013 and said Android would supplant Apple's iOS as the dominant operating system this year. "The shift to ...
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2012. Accordingly, in the fourth quarter Severstal registered a net loss of $150 million compared to a net profit of $329 million ...
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US food group Campbell Soup Co. has recorded a drop in first-half profits as costs related to its acquisition of Bolthouse Farms hit earnings. Earnings in the six months ended 27 January fell to US$430m, a 7.3% decline on last year, the ...
Budget phones can be miserable affairs. Poor screen and camera resolution, terrible keyboards and hand-me-down technology can make a user feel like the character in Barbra Streisand's 60s hit Second Hand Rose. This isn't so with Nokia's ...
On February 3, Chongqing-based Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. (Group) Ltd announced that its output of crude steel amounted to 5.2225 million mt in 2012, while its sales revenue for the year reached RMB 25.916 billion ...
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