The worldwide tablet market is exploding with demand as people jettison laptops for smaller, touch-based devices. But even as tablets become must-have personal computing devices, Windows, and particularly Windows 8 tablets, won’t be a ...
Tags: Apple, Microsoft, Surface tablet, tablet, Windows, Windows 8
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, ...
Tags: Apple, Galaxy, iPad, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Samsung, Steve Ballmer
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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While the Mars Curiosity rover is the most complex machine NASA has ever sent to another planet, the computer that runs it is no more powerful than the one in your smartphone. The robotic rover, which landed in the Gale Crater on Mars ...
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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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HP has announced new Pavilion Sleekbooks, which the company is pitching as laptops that are cheaper than Ultrabooks but competitive in weight and thickness. The new Pavilion Sleekbooks will come in two models. The Sleekbook 14 has a ...
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The battery life of ultrabooks will nearly double with Intel's upcoming processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture, which will succeed processors code-named Ivy Bridge, Intel executives said on Tuesday. The new Haswell chips will ...
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The Laptop Guy announces its upcoming summer Groupon Daily Deal offering savings on iPod, iPhone, iPad, and laptop screen repairs starting June 24th, with a special preview day on Saturday, June 23, 2012. Just in time for summer, Groupon ...
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The first round of Windows 8 tablets and laptops coming out later this year will be "just the beginning" of a range of form factors and styles that will evolve as the operating system matures, according to the president of a major Taiwanese ...
Tags: Acer, computer, form factors, highlightedpost, jim wong, laptops, tablets
Apple and Samsung have emerged as the global kings of smartphones, tablets and PCs even though the two vendors have very different product and pricing strategies, IDC said yesterday. On price, Apple’s average selling price (ASP) for ...
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Despite Intel's claim that 40 percent of all laptops sold this year would be ultrabooks the most popular, mid-tange priced ultra-portable notebook today is Apple's MacBook Air. Intel defines an ultrabook as an ultra-portable computer ...
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Gartner analysts have dubbed Microsoft’s Windows 8 as a “big gamble” that will see the operating system peak at just 20% to 25% of corporate PCs. “Microsoft is taking a big gamble over the next few months with ...
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About five years ago Genomic Health began to introduce cloud-based business applications. Ken Stineman, senior director of enterprise architecture and security, quickly became aware of the security risks these apps posed. CSO contributor ...
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The Windows Store, a new online marketplace for applications for Windows 8 and Windows RT computers, is now open to developers in 120 geographic markets, Microsoft said on Tuesday. Any developer can now submit applications for inclusion ...
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Tablets and smartphones -- and users' infatuation with them -- continue to pummel the PC market. Worldwide PC shipments were flat this past quarter, just like they were for the previous six quarters before that, according to a report out ...
Tags: tablets, smartphones, PC market, users'infatuation