Acer has started shipping the C7 Chromebook netbook starting at$199 with Google's Chrome OS and Intel's Celeron processor. The low-power laptop has an 11.6-inch screen,and is for those who do most of their computing on the web,Acer said ...
Tags: Acer, C7 Chromebook, Google's Chrome OS, Intel's Celeron processor
Taipei, Oct.24, 2012 (CENS)--Acer Inc. recently issued an unexpectedly dismal financial report for the third quarter, with consolidated revenue dropping 5.6% quarter on quarter (QoQ) to NT$104.4 billion (US$3.48 billion) and earnings per ...
Microsoft today announced a new scheme to sell discounted Windows 8 devices into UK schools. The project, called Shape the Future, will see the company team up with Intel and classroom IT specialists RM Education with the goal of getting ...
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Microsoft makes more than$300 on each Surface RT tablet it sells,showing that the company has adopted the business model of its rival,Apple,analysts said yesterday. According to IHS iSuppli,which disassembled a 32GB Surface to estimate ...
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Microsoft will"die and disappear"within the next few years,futurist and ex-CTO of BT,Peter Cochrane,has told Computing. "Microsoft will die and disappear in the next few years.There is no convergence in IT–what we see is ...
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Acer,one of the big-five PC vendors,has put back the launch of its own Windows RT tablets following the launch of the Microsoft Surface and the mixed reviews that it has received. The company is unlikely to release a similar product ...
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The name Foxconn has become shorthand for the human costs of building the iPhone in China, linking Apple to bad publicity about worker suicides, deaths from a plant explosion and rioting factory workers. But many other companies besides ...
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Along with the long-awaited iPad Mini announcement today,Apple revealed what it called its Fusion Drive,which combines the high performance of NAND flash memory with the storage capacity of a hard disk drive(HDD). The Fusion Drive will be ...
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IDG News Service-Come Oct.26,when Microsoft is set to stage a release party in New York City,consumers may have to choose between a tablet with Windows 8 or Windows RT.The operating systems look and feel the same,but devices will differ on ...
Tags: Windows Tablet, Microsoft, performance, price, battery life, usage
Lenovo's highly anticipated ThinkPad Tablet 2 with Windows 8 will be priced starting at$629,the company said. The tablet will have a 10.1-inch screen and become available on Oct.26,alongside Microsoft's launch Windows 8 for PCs and ...
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Taipei,Oct.4,2012(CENS)--With ever more people choosing all-in-one(AIO)personal computers(PC)instead of traditional desktop PCs in recent years,shipments of AIO PCs will likely outstrip 20%growth year on year(YoY)in 2013,driving up revenues ...
Intel has unveiled its chip focused on tablet systems,the Atom Z2760,revealing it'll launch after Windows 8 becomes available next month. Formerly known as Clover Trail,the system-on-a-chip design of the Intel Atom Z2760 is said to offer ...
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Some of the tablet makers at a launch event for Intel's "Clover Trail" processor emphasized the business smarts of their products as a way to distinguish them from Apple's market-leading iPad. Dell, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Acer and other ...
Tablets running on Intel's upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail could come with the Android OS,adding another OS option for the processor platform in addition to Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows 8 OS,Intel said on Monday. ...
Taipei,Sept.17,2012(CENS)--To assist Taiwanese information and communication technology(ICT)industry to tap the market in eastern China,the institute for information industry(III),Taiwan's semi-official IT industry think tank,recently led ...
Tags: Taiwanese Firms, Nanjing, 8th Cis, Communication Technology(ICT)