Apple has announced the iPad Air featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display. Weighed one pound, iPad Air is 20% thinner and 28% lighter than the fourth-generation iPad, and with a narrower bezel the borders of iPad Air are thinner. Apple has ...
Tesco's bargain-tastic Hudl 7-inch tablet seems to be going great guns, selling 35,000 units in its first two days alone after release in the UK. It's cheap - coming in at just £120 (or £60 if purchased with specific Tesco ...
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The limited launched of Google Glass earlier this year was greeted with a lot of hype and the inevitable backlash, but one thing this first version of Glass didn't show yet was the full potential of the platform. That's because developers ...
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After months of teasers, Intel kicked off shipments of fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell, with the first batch being quad-core chips for laptops and desktops. The Haswell chips, which also include dual-core chips to be ...
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The Khronos Group has announced plans to create an open and royalty-free application programming interface for controlling mobile and embedded cameras and sensors, giving developers access to features such as burst modes and flash. The ...
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Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already releasing teasers that talk about their performance. The Haswell laptop chip will deliver ...
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AMD says it is looking to grow its business in markets outside the PC industry, with an emphasis on embedded systems. The processor firm has announced its latest embedded system-on-chip (SOC) platform based on the AMD next-generation ...
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Renesas Electronics has announced the availability of a new member of the R-Car Series of automotive system-on-chip (SoC) multimedia processors. The multicore SoC is one of the first commercial chips to implement ARM's big.LITTLE ...
Microsoft's XNA development environment-a platform popular with independent videogame programmers for the Xbox 360 console-has been marked for retirement by the company. In an email sent to Microsoft MVPs(most valued professionals)on ...
Imagination Technologies has announced that it is among the first to submit PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ drivers for OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance with Khronos. OpenGL ES is a royalty-free, cross-platform API for full-function 2D and ...
Infoworld - When it comes to virtualization on the desktop, two products stand front and center: VMware Workstation and VirtualBox. The former is the long-standing original keeper of the flame, from the company that gave us PC-centric ...
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When Apple switched to Intel processors, Windows switchers as well as Mac users who needed to run the occasional Windows app rejoiced. That's because the chip switch was soon followed by the release of virtualization software that would ...
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MIT researchers have figured out a way to help developers more easily rearrange their image processing code so that it can execute faster and use fewer computational resources. Such a technique could prove especially beneficial for mobile ...
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Flex-ATX KTQ77/Flex is on the 3rd generation Intel Core processors Embedded computing technology applications provider Kontron has introduced new embedded motherboard, Flex-ATX KTQ77/Flex, which is built on the 3rd generation Intel Core ...
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AM4022 offers twice the processing performance and up to four times the 3D graphics performance of its predecessor, the company claims German-based embedded computer modules manufacturer Kontron has introduced AdvancedMC processor module ...
Tags: AM4022, 3D graphics performance, AdvancedMC processor, IPTV, media servers