Computerworld-The new iPad Mini costs Apple just under$200 in materials and manufacturing,an analyst said today,putting an exclamation point on the company's devotion to high profit margins. IHS iSuppli,which regularly tears apart ...
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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 ...
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Usually, when we reference the offices of yesteryear, we’re pointing out how much better things are today than they used to be. After all, who among us would trade a flexible work schedule and wireless networking for the 9-to-5 grind ...
Tags: wireless networking, office furniture, office furnishing, furniture
The first teardown of an iPad Mini showed few surprises, but the team that took apart Apple's new smaller tablet said it was "extremely difficult" for do-it-yourselfers to repair. iFixit.com, which regularly rips apart devices sold by ...
The Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a program to certify products that support TDLS (Tunneled Direct Link Setup), a technology that allows devices to automatically create a link between each other after accessing a wireless network, removing ...
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Computerworld - Tablets seem to be heading in two directions: There are those primarily designed for consumption of books, movies and other content, and those intended for content creation as well as consumption. That distinction is ...
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c, forcing U.S. and Canadian customers who want one Friday to head to the company's permanent and special holiday "pop-up" stores. As of Saturday, the $599 32GB and $699 64GB models packaged with a Touch Cover were shipping one to two ...
Tags: Microsoft, Surface RT, tablet, delay-before-shipping
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to start using 450-millimeter wafers to build its processors in 2018, following delays in the development of the new manufacturing technology. TSMC, a contract manufacturer of smartphone ...
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Dell is back in the tablet market after laying low for a few months, announcing the XPS 10 tablet, which has an ARM processor and Microsoft's upcoming Windows RT OS. The XPS 10 is intended for work and play, said Alison Gardner, director ...
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Apple's App Store had the top score among mobile application storefronts ranked by ABI Research, but Microsoft's Windows Store narrowly beat the field for its degree of innovation. The rankings point to a central issue with application ...
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Unity Opto revenues hit 24-month high in June Siu Han,Taipei;Steve Shen,DIGITIMES[Friday 6 July 2012]LED packaging firm Unity Opto Technology saw its consolidated revenues grow 20%on month and 40%on year to hit a 24-month high of NT$710 ...
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Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company, has submitted a new drug application (NDA) to the FDA for HIV integrase inhibitor elvitegravir for the treatment-experienced patients. The company provided 96-week data from a pivotal Phase ...
Cisco Systems posted a small sales gain of 4 percent and a larger boost in profit for its fiscal fourth quarter on Wednesday. The company's revenue hit$11.7 billion for the quarter ended July 12,up 4 percent from a year earlier.Its net ...
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Visa said Tuesday that it has expanded its digital wallet service V.me to an additional 53 banks and 23 merchant partners. About 55 million cardholders now can use V.me for their online shopping. V.me is a wallet service that aims to make ...
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Facebook users can use the storage service Dropbox to share content stored in the cloud with Facebook groups, the two companies announced today. "Now you can share notes with your study group, add the latest game schedule to your ...
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