Known for its high-end gaming rigs, Velocity Micro has begun to add more mainstream computers to its lineup, including an Ultrabook, a mini desktop, and an all-in-one. The NoteMagix U470 is a 14-inch Ultrabook, but what's most notable ...
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A quick look at our newest computer Ratings tells an interesting story: Despite the release of the new Windows 8 OS, many Windows 7 computers are still available from a variety of retailers, and several top our Ratings. If you're shopping ...
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The Lumia 920 and HTC Windows Phone 8X, two of the first Windows Phone 8 models, turned in some of best performances of phones in our newest Ratings—just a few points behind top-scoring Android phones from LG and Samsung, and the ...
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In our most recent lab reviews of smart phones, we finally got our hands on some of the newest Windows 8 devices. While we were all excited to put the new operating system through its paces in our labs, we noticed something before we even ...
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Ten years ago Monday, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs introduced Apple's first, and so far only, browser for OS X, according to the former head of the Safari team. Don Melton, who retired last year as Apple's director of ...
The general population might best know Asus for its work on Google's Nexus 7 tablet, but hardcore tech enthusiasts know the Taiwanese company for all its inspired--some may zany--reinterpretations of common computer formfactors. Next in the ...
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Microsoft has sold some 60 million Windows 8 licences since the OS's launch, according to the finance and marketing head of Windows business, Tami Reller. Reller was speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where ...
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Apple is developing a cheaper version of its iPhone, as it looks to expand its share of the smartphone market, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ said Apple could release this lower-end iPhone at some point in ...
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As the first wave of attendees stormed the gates of CES 2013 on Tuesday morning, RIM, in a hotel suite several miles away, gave a small group of journalists a glimpse of its upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system. This was a "hands-off" ...
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Computerworld - The holiday slump in PC sales -- down 11% compared to 2011 -- means that PC makers must raise prices, not continue a race to the bottom, an analyst argued today. Windows 8 failed to turn around slumping PC sales during the ...
IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard is rebooting its tablet strategy with the ElitePad 900, but faces challenges as it tries to overcome past tablet failures and deals with the slow adoption of the Windows 8 OS, analysts said. The ElitePad ...
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To review the year of 2012, we can see that both mobile phone products and mobile phone markets changed a lot. The configuration of smart phones developed much while the price dumped into thousand RMB. A year ago, the situation was beyond ...
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Advanced Micro Devices showed off a Windows 8 tablet running the company's upcoming tablet chip code-named Temash,which the company hopes will reverse a string of past failures and provide enough ammunition to compete with tablet chip ...
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IDG News Service - Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to better use larger servers through the introduction of virtual nodes and ...
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) turned things around in 2012, posting an annual usage share gain for the first time in the last eight years, according to data published earlier this week by a Web analytics company. Net ...
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