Intel will get a strong indication at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show whether its decision to bet heavily on ultrabooks …
Intel starts shipping new Atom processors
Intelhas announced the availability of the latest mobile Intel Atom processor-based platform, formerly codenamed “Cedar Trail.” Designed to provide small, compact, …
Intel tries to keep netbooks alive with new Atom chips
Intel yesterday started shipping the latest Atom chips for netbooks, an important step to sustain growth of the low-cost PCs …
Impact of hard drive shortage to linger through 2013: IDC
Hard disk drive supply shortages in the wake of Thailand flooding will continue to affect consumers, computer system manufacturers and …
Microsoft delays Windows Phone 7 OS launch in China
Microsoft expects its Windows Phone 7 mobile OS to launch in China during the first half of 2012, rather than …
HP, Dell overtake Nokia in Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics
While some consumer electronics manufacturers have cleaned up their act, making more energy-efficient gadgets with fewer toxic materials, others are …
Spinning off PC group would have cost billions: HP
Spinning off its PC unit would have been too costly for Hewlett-Packard (HP), and that was one of the reasons …
H.H Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum open GITEX Shopper 2011
GITEX Shopper was officially opened today by His Highness Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the …
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire, its entry into the tablet fray
Amazon unveiled its tablet computer, the US$199 Android-based Kindle Fire, yesterday during a Manhattan launch event. The Wi-Fi-only tablet has …
AMD’s product chief Bergman departs
Just under a month after appointing a new CEO, AMD said that Rick Bergman, the company’s senior VP and GM …
Dell Latitude 2120- rugged and overpriced
Dell touts the Latitude 2120 as the ideal netbook for business. That engenders the question: is an old-school, underperforming, under-screened …
Perfect storm
Google’s Motorola mobile takeover and HP?s PSG spin off are game changers and signs of the gathering storm Nowadays a …
New AMD CEO faces challenges in mobile
Newly minted Advanced Micro Devices CEO Rory Read faces a challenge in turning around the company’s mobile strategy to wage …
AMD aims for growth with appointment of new CEO
With a new CEO finally at the helm, AMD can begin to move forward in what has become an Intel …
HP allays fears around PC business uncertainty
Business continues as usual for Hewlett-Packard’s PC unit, which will continue to support and sell products as the company explores …
Revisions galore for HP
Six months after laying out his “strategic vision” for HP, CEO Leo Apotheker took the actions to realise it and …
HP’s PC unit could be a tough sell
Hewlett-Packard (HP) may struggle to attract buyers for its Personal Systems Group (PSG), which might carry too high a price …
Shades of Blue in HP’s dramatic reshuffling
HP’s plans to get out of the PC business, acquire software maker Autonomy and retreat from its webOS device investments …
IBM declares the end of the PC era
Are we living in a “post-PC” world? Steve Jobs thinks so, and he often refers to the iPad as a …
Samsung aims to drive up tablet storage with new SSDs
Tablet users may need more storage capacity in the future, and Samsung Semiconductor announced it is now making its fastest …