IDG News Service - Perhaps taking a leaf from Apple's book, Nvidia kept its greatest surprise at CES for the end of its news conference: an Android-based portable gaming device based on its new Tegra 4 chip. A working prototype of the ...
Tags: Nvidia, Android, flat panel display, PC games
Sony has faced up to its recent failures and admitted it's forgotten how to "wow" an audience at the first official day of CES 2013 in Las Vegas today. "We used to make people say 'wow' all the time," announced a voiceover before the ...
Tags: Sony, USB 3.0 products, Computer Products
Day one of the Consumer Entertainment Show(CES)2013 in Las Vegas has seen a couple of reveals to potentially bend the rules of the existing mobile technology market. First up was the unveiling of Nvidia's Tegra 4 mobile chip,which the ...
Tags: CES 2013, Lenovo, 27in'table'PC, Nvidia, Tegra 4 mobile processor
You can always find some gaming news at CES. And this year, that news isn't minor: Nvidia has announced a new hand-held gaming console called Project Shield that can run both Android and PC games. How does it do this? First, it's an ...
Tags: Nvidia, Consumer Electronics, Handheld Games
IDG News Service-Lenovo is challenging Google's Nexus 7 tablet with a new range of affordable IdeaTab tablets,which start at$299 and have the Android 4.0 OS. The US$299 IdeaTab A2109 comes with a 7-inch screen,while the$399 IdeaTab S2110 ...
Tags: Lenovo, Google Nexus 7, Android Tablet
Samsung is building a tablet based on Windows RT for release sometime in October, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Bloomberg news service. Samsung joins Acer and Asus, among other device makers, to build the touchscreen ...
Tags: Samsung, Windows RT, Microsoft, ARM chips
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday launched new FirePro processors that include CPUs and graphics processors, a change from previous FirePro chips that only had graphics processors. The new FirePro A300 series processors combines CPUs and ...
Tags: AMD, FirePro processors, CPUs, GPUs
Nvidia plans to integrate CPU cores alongside graphics cores in Tesla high-performance chips, which is a change from current Tesla chips that have only graphics processors. Tesla is targeted at supercomputing and enterprise applications. ...
Tags: Nvidia, CPU cores, graphics cores, Tesla chips
Here's how the iPad Mini's announced tech specs stack up against popular 7-inch tablets from Google and Amazon. (Of course, while the specs are important, there's more to a tablet than a data sheet. Computerworld will have a hands-on review ...
Tags: iPad Mini, Google, Amazon, Nexus 7, Kindle Fire
Acer on Thursday announced a low-cost tablet starting at $230 with a 7-inch screen and Google's Android 4.1 OS, code-named Jelly Bean. The Iconia Tab A110 weighs 453 grams and provides up to 7.5 hours of battery life. It joins a growing ...
Tags: Acer, tablet, Google, Android 4.1 OS, Nexus 7
Google's new $199 Nexus 7 tablet takes advantage of Nvidia's Kai reference design, a proprietary technology that allows for a cheaper display and memory components that work in concert with a high-performance quad-core Tegra 3 processor. ...
Tags: Google, Nexus 7 tablet, Nvidia, Kai, proprietary technology
Asustek is shipping its upcoming Vivo Tab RT tablet starting at US$599, which will cost more than Windows RT tablets from Microsoft and Dell, which have an entry price of $499. Asus is shipping the tablet with a dock accessory. Buyers ...
Tags: Asustek, Vivo Tab RT tablet, Windows RT tablets, Microsoft, Dell
Prices are dropping on tablets running Android 4.1 OS, with Indian company Karbonn Mobiles announcing a tablet priced at around $125 and using Google's latest OS, code-named Jelly Bean. The Smart Tab 1 tablet is the second with Android ...
Tags: tablets, Android 4.1 OS, Google, Jelly Bean
IDG News Service - New Windows RT tablets announced at the IFA trade show in Berlin have intensified competition among ARM-based chip makers, which are adding unique capabilities to processors so tablets become more attractive to buyers ...
Tags: Windows RT tablet, Qualcomm, chip, tablet
AT&T confirmed Thursday it will carry two HTC smartphones, the One X+ quad-core smartphone and the dual-core One VX "in the coming months." Pricing was not announced, however. The HTC One X+ AT&T also confirmed it will have the ...
Tags: HTC, smartphones, One X+