The global notebook market will face more uncertainty in 2016 as Xiaomi Technology and Huawei will debut in the mature market, and Samsung Electronics has also renewed its interest in it, according to industry sources. As the global ...
Tags: notebook market, Xiaomi, smartphones
The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
Tags: ARM Servers, 64-Bit Processors
The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
Tags: 64-Bit, Computer Products, ARM
Wind River has introduced its first Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) profile for its Linux OS software offering. Formally registered for the CGL 5.0 specification with the Linux Foundation, the profile is the first delivery of Carrier Grade ...
Tags: Wind River Linux, Yocto Project
Smartphones running on a mobile version the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system could arrive as early October this year, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Linux OS vendor Canonical, told the ...
One Laptop Per Child is back in the tablet race, announcing a new 7-inch tablet with the Android OS that will be sold commercially and include its learning software. The XO Tablet was announced at the International CES show in Las Vegas. ...
Tags: OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, tablet, Android OS, learning software
IDG News Service-Samsung plans to launch its first cell phones this year based on Tizen,a Linux-based operating system that will principally rival Google's Android OS. Tizen is being developed by Samsung and Intel in part to reduce their ...
Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based servers, the companies announced Thursday. Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Micro, ...
Tags: ARM-based servers, Linux OS, Linaro
A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time,charges the CTO of DataStax,a company that manages the open source Cassandra ...
Tags: Linux, Leap-Second Lapses
IDG News Service - China will take the wraps off its latest 8-core Godson processor early next year to show its chip-making ability compared to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ARM. Loongson Technology, partly funded by the Chinese ...
Tags: PCs, Servers, 8-core Godson processor, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, ARM
Microsoft today said that a free Windows 8 and Windows RT Skype app will be ready for downloading from the Windows Store on Friday, Oct. 26. The long-rumored app -- bloggers have been posting leaked screenshots of Skype for Windows 8 for ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8, Windows RT, Skype app
Despite precautions by system providers, an extra second added to the official timekeeping record Saturday triggered several popular Internet services to crash over the weekend, including LinkedIn, Reddit and Quantas airline's reservation ...
Tags: ystem providers, Internet services, LinkedIn, Reddit, Quantas
After months of heralding its Clover Trail processor for Windows 8 tablets, Intel on Thursday unveiled the chip that it believes is its ticket to success in the ARM-dominated market. Tablets with Clover Trail, aka the Atom Z2760 chip, ...
Tags: Intel, tablet, Windows 8, Clover Trail
Novosoft, one of the leading providers of data backup and recovery solutions worldwide, announced the release of Handy Backup 7.3.1. The new version of the acclaimed software backup platform features an enhanced versioning engine, ...
Tags: Novosoft, data backup, data recovery solutions, software backup platform
After almost a year of preparation, The OpenStack Foundation has launched as a stand-alone nonprofit organization, freeing its namesake stack of open source cloud hosting software from the management of hosting provider Rackspace. ...
Tags: OpenStack Foundation, nonprofit organization, open source, cloud, software