A smartwatch from Samsung Electronics, the Galaxy Note III from Samsung, an Acer smartphone that can shoot 4K video and a Sony one with a 20-megapixel sensor, plus a plethora of tablets and TVs are all expected at this year's IFA consumer ...
Tags: Smartwatch, Smartphones, Computer Products
Mobile browsing continued to post gains last month at the expense of personal computers, a trend that has put Google into the second spot behind Microsoft as the browser maker with the longest reach, a Web metrics company said Sunday. ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products, Mobile service
Microsoft is to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, and license the Finnish company's patents for a total of €5.44 billion (US$7 billion) in cash, the companies said ...
Tags: Microsoft, Nokia, Mobile Phones Business, Smartphones
Microsoft's plan to buy Nokia's phone business and have a larger presence in hardware devices has so far brought little response from PC and smartphone vendors in Asia. But the deal could end up bringing dividends to Microsoft's long-time ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft, Nokia, Mobile Device
We're in the "decade of data" and it will "dwarf the revolution that came from the internet" and change every part of society across the globe. That's what one of the world's top data scientists, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, founder and ...
Tags: Data, software, Computer Products
The overall Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) market in Western Europe achieved a sales volume of €44.3 billion in Q2 2013. This corresponds to a decrease of 3.8%. In the first half of the year sales volume amounted to €92.5 billion, ...
Tags: Telecommunication
White-box tablet shipments reached only 15.9 million units in the second quarter of 2013, down 26.3% sequentially due to weakening tablet demand in May and June. Many smaller white-box players were also forced to quit the market, according ...
Tags: White-Box Tablet, Electronics
The size of the Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market exceeded the region's portable PC market for the first time in the second quarter of 2013, according to IDC. IDC has announced that tablet shipments for the quarter were up 208% on ...
Tags: Tablet Market, PC Market
Worldwide PC shipments are now expected to fall by -9.7 percent in 2013, further deepening what is already the longest market contraction on record, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The ...
Tags: PC shipments, Computer Products
Smartphones with screen sizes of 5- to just under 7-inch, colloquially known as phablets, overtook shipments of each of the portable PC and tablet device categories in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) in the second quarter of 2013, according ...
Tags: Smartphones, Portable PC
Microsoft got some good news Sunday as metrics company Net Applications said Windows 8′s user share in August is now larger than Vista's at the same point in the latter's post-launch timeline. Windows 8′s user share of all PCs ...
Tags: Computer Products, Windows 8, Vista
Acer has dismissed rumor that certain investment banks plan to invite Lenovo or Asustek Computer to merge with Acer. The vendor said no investment banks have contacted its management to inquire about the possibility of a merger and Acer ...
Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Advil, has introduced its latest innovation in pain relief—fast acting Advil Film Coated tablets. This first-to-market formulation marks the debut of Advil Ion Core Technology in the United ...
Phoenix Software has revealed that public sector enquiries about purchasing Microsoft Surface hardware has "surged" since Microsoft gave the licensing, software and infrastructure solutions firm permission to sell the devices only two weeks ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Belgium-based pharmaceutical contract manufacturer Sanico has installed four Insight PH metal detectors from Lock Inspection Systems at its Turnhout facility in Belgium, to boost tablet inspection capability with 100% accuracy. The drug ...