Asustek Computer has fired another shot in the Android tablet price war, putting the starting price for the Asus Memo Pad FHD7 at $129. The MemoPad weighs 302 grams and has a 7-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, a ...
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When it comes to tablets, Microsoft and its OEMs don't know where they're going, an analyst said today. "There's still the idea that they don't quite get it," said Carolina Milanesi of Gartner in an interview. "And I don't think the ...
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MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, today announced that Acer Inc. has selected MediaTek quad-core solutions to power its first "phablet", the Liquid S1, and ...
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After months of teasers, Intel kicked off shipments of fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell, with the first batch being quad-core chips for laptops and desktops. The Haswell chips, which also include dual-core chips to be ...
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PCs that are cooler, smaller and faster were announced by computer makers Sunday in advance of Computex, with the new machines featuring Intel's speedier fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell. Asus, Cyberpower and ...
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Want to find out what's next in smartphones, tablets and PCs? The latest trends in hardware will be on display at the giant Computex trade show, which kicks off in Taipei next week. The 2013 Computex kicks off in Taipei next week ...
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Taiwan's MediaTek has launched a new quad-core ARM processor for tablets that is slated to be used in an upcoming IdeaTab device from Lenovo. The MT8125 chip features a quad-core processor built with ARM's Cortex A7 CPU and can run at up ...
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Lenovo, the world's second-largest PC maker, has recorded a 90 per cent hike in net profit for the March quarter compared to a year earlier. The Chinese firm beat analysts' expectations by reporting a quarterly net profit of $127m ...
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Advanced Micro Devices hopes to regain share in the PC processor market with its upcoming chips based on the Jaguar core, which will bring console-like gaming and wireless displays to laptops with Windows 8 and its successor, Windows Blue. ...
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AMD today launched three new additions to its 2013 A-Series and E-Series Mobile Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) lineup – delivering solutions ideally positioned to address today’s evolving PC market with dramatically increased ...
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PC shipments in Western Europe declined by 20.5% during the first quarter: The only vendors to see shipments grow were Lenovo and Apple, which returned to the top five. Shipments during the quarter dropped to 12.3 million, compared to ...
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In March 2013, Chile rebar exports were 49,269 tons, annulus comparing fell 6.4%, down 6.6% year-on-year. The first quarter of this year, Chile's total rebar exports amounted to 161,367 tons, an increase of 3.4% compared with the fourth ...
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Apple supplier Pegatron has said it will increase its workforce in China by up to 40 per cent in the second half of 2013, suggesting that it could be working on assembling a new cheaper model of the iPhone. Pegatron, which is based in ...
Change is in the air for Microsoft in response to?ho-hum sales of Windows 8, and it sounds like PC makers couldn't be happier. Citing various PC industry executives in Asia, the?Wall Street Journal reports?that Microsoft is being more ...
A standards organization has created a boot environment for tablets and PCs that could potentially run a 64-bit version of Windows RT. The UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Forum on Wednesday announced that its boot firmware ...
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