Intel is betting big on small, announcing a deal with Google to get future Android-based devices running on Intel chips, along with a plan (not involving Google) for much more efficient power management features for thin-and-light ultrabooks that’ll be hitting the market soon.
The company has been chasing after the mobile segment for …
After rolling out new models in February, Apple is reportedly planning a marginal speed bump to its line of MacBook Pro notebooks before the end of the year.
That’s according to a rumor from Apple Insider, which quotes not the standard “people familiar with the plans” but “people with proven insight into Apple’s future product plans.” …
On Tuesday, Microsoft showed off the first tablets running Windows 8, and provided a bunch of new details about the operating system. I’ve already ogled the hardware, so now let’s look at the big takeaways from the Windows 8 software, at least from what Microsoft has disclosed so far. Here’s what you need to know:
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After a trickle of Windows 8-related information, Microsoft officially opened up the floodgates during the keynote of its 2011 “Build” conference. Here are 50 images of the recently-revealed Windows 8 user interface, features and related hardware devices.
All images from Microsoft unless otherwise noted…
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The Internet really isn’t as pornography-filled as you might think. In fact, according to one expert, only 42,337 of the one million most-trafficked websites online are offering sex-related content, which translates into somewhere around 4% of sites on the Internet.
That surprising figure—am I the only person who expected it to be …
Microsoft is getting serious about tablets with Windows 8, and we’ve got hard proof. Pictured above, and in the slides that follow, is the first tablet running Windows 8, built by Samsung. It’s just a prototype, and may never hit store shelves in its current form (a version of this hardware will launch as a Windows 7 tablet), but it …
We know a little bit about Windows 8 already, but only a little bit. Today at 12pm ET, Microsoft is holding a keynote at its BUILD conference in Anaheim—and by the time it’s over, odds are that we’ll have a pretty good idea of the operating system upgrade’s overarching aims, feature highlights, and potential pitfalls.
We’ll …
During the Mobile Forward Future event in Seattle, HTC America acting president Martin Fichter walked onstage and told the audience that kids don’t think Apple’s iPhone is “cool” anymore—according to the dorm mates of his daughter at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, anyway. He notes that he saw plenty of college students carrying …
Today’s Intel Developer Forum fastest processor in the world gold star goes to Int—I mean, AMD?
That’s right, AMD, Intel’s least-favorite chip-making rival, who apparently managed to jam prototype processing tech, incantations from a book of magic, a sacrificial dove and a bag of gilded runestones into a box to coax an AMD FX …
Your next Android tablet may well be dedicated to video games, and the company behind it’s arguably the one you’d least expect: GameStop. That’s right, the monster-sized video games retailer we’d probably have long since bid farewell, but for the company’s prescient move into the used games market, now responsible for over half its …
AT&T will be one of the first carriers out of the gate with phones running the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system—Windows Phone 7.5, also known by the codename “Mango”.
The nation’s second-largest wireless carrier announced that the Samsung Focus S, the HTC Titan, and the Samsung Focus Flash will all be available …
Microsoft’s got a big week ahead at its Build conference, where the company is expected to drop lots of new details about Windows 8. Ostensibly, the conference is a place for application developers to learn about Microsoft’s new software, but for the rest of us, it’ll hopefully be a place to get some key details and hands-on time with …
