In just one year, on April 8, 2014, Microsoft will stop delivering security updates for?Windows XP, the second most popular operating system in the world. Microsoft issued several?blog posts?Monday urging businesses to get out before it was ...
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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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MICROSOFT is moving to bolster its new tablet fleet as declining sales of PCs create concerns around sales of Windows 8. The Wall St Journal reports Microsoft is developing a fresh range of its Surface tablets, including a 7-inch screen ...
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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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Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones, and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today. But it's ...
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To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers. The architecture, announced on Tuesday, calls for decoupling ...
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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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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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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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At the 14th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON 2013) in Orlando, FL (7-9 April), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA launched three ...
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 ...
SOMETIMES we run into brick walls making them sync with mobile devices. MANY of us use standard email calendars, tasks and notes to manage our lives, but we sometimes run into brick walls making them sync with mobile devices. Those walls ...
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Weiber thermal cyclic chamber is ideal for test requiring quick changes in specimen temperature. It features new technologies, such as a specimen temperature control function maintaining linear specimen temperature change rates during rapid ...
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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