Samsung announced an ambitious line of Windows 8 mobile devices using the ATIV name on Wednesday, including an ATIV S smartphone with a 4.8-in. HD display and three tablet PCs. The lineup, unveiled in Berlin, Germany during a webcast, ...
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Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be lagging far behind Windows 7 in its usage uptake, but it’s easily topping the low bar set by Windows Vista, according to data from Web metric firm Net Applications. Windows 8 accounted for 0.45% of ...
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Upcoming smartphones and tablets will charge much more quickly with new micro-USB 3.0 ports, the USB standards-setting organization said on Tuesday. A majority of smartphones and tablets today are charged via micro-USB ports, with a cable ...
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Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 will mark “the end” of the computer industry’s dominant OS due to increasing competition and choice sparked by alternatives, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff predicted Friday. Windows ...
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Infoworld - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is concerned that Apple's smartphone prowess could be threatened by rival products coming to market. Speaking at an Avaya event in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, Wozniak said when iPhone ...
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Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. “We’re so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs,” said Steven Sinofsky, ...
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HP has no plans to launch a smartphone next year but will need to sell one eventually to avoid missing out on “a huge segment of the population,” CEO Meg Whitman said Wednesday, clarifying remarks she made last month. Whitman ...
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Lenovo on Wednesday announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, which has a 10.1-inch screen and kicks off a new generation of the company's PCs and devices with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system. The tablet will weigh less than 600 ...
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Samsung Electronics said today that net profit nearly doubled in the third quarter on strong sales of its Galaxy S III and Note 2, which also boosted results in its component business. The world’s largest maker of mobile handsets ...
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Plasco Energy Group Inc. will build a 150,000 tonnes/year waste conversion facility in Ottawa, Ont., which will produce about 15MW of net electricity for the grid. The facility will be built to the Plasco Conversion System (PCS) design ...
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Voice interaction will be available in ultrabooks starting in the fourth quarter, an Intel executive said Tuesday. Ultrabooks will come with Nuance's Dragon Assistant Beta voice recognition software, which will enable direct interaction ...
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HTML5 tools vendor Sencha unveiled today Sencha Complete Team, which bundles existing tools with an Eclipse plug-in, a desktop application packager, and data connectors. Developers using the suite can build HTML5-based business ...
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HP on Monday announced the new ElitePad 900 tablet, with Windows 8, which the company says can be easily disassembled to replace components in order to save hardware and support costs. The tablet, targeted at businesses, has a 10.1-inch ...
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Downgrade rights will be critical to Windows 8's acceptance in the enterprise, but if they're exercised by consumers, it's a sign Microsoft's newest OS has pulled a "Vista," analysts said today. For consumers, downgrade rights, which let ...
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HP is planning to "aggressively" seek recompense for alleged accounting fraud related to the acquisition of its Autonomy unit, which resulted in the vendor taking a non-cash impairment charge of US$8.8 billion. HP acquired Autonomy in ...