Taiwanese PC maker Acer reported a net loss in last year’s fourth quarter, weighed down by a US$120 million write-off …
Android, iOS benefit from tablet sales surge, but not Windows 8, says IDC
Improving Windows 8 is Microsoft’s best bet for grabbing a larger share of tablet sales over the next four years, but there doesn’t …
Samsung exec hits out at Windows 8
The grumbling of PC makers is getting louder with Windows 8 doing little to spark laptop sales. The latest complaints …
Cortado presents MDM and virtual printing solutions
Cortado presented its mobile device management (MDM) and virtual printing solutions at this week’s CeBit trade fair in Hanover, Germany. The …
Smartphones, tablets set to spark Asia-Pacific telecoms growth, says Ovum
The telecoms industry is set for huge growth over coming years, thanks to the protracted maturation in the smartphone and …
The Pirate Bay owns up to North Korean hosting hoax
You’ve got to hand it to the IT wizards at The Pirate Bay–they certainly know how to have fun with their …
Windows 8 uptake sluggish despite healthy touch notebook sales, says Asus
Touch-based Windows 8 notebooks have been selling well for Taiwanese PC maker Asus, but overall Microsoft’s new operating system has …
HP Envy 23 Touchsmart
HP’s TouchSmart series is one of the more widely available, long-standing models of all-in-one. We tested the latest entry-level Envy …
Windows 8 uptake slows again
Windows 8’s uptake pace slowed in February for the third straight month, an analytics company said today. According to Net …
Microsoft releases IE10 for Windows 7
After nearly two years of testing, Microsoft has officially released Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7. Internet Explorer 10 for Windows …
Nokia unveils new smartphones
Nokia today unveiled a new range of smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and announced plans to extend the …
Ericsson, Mozilla and AT&T demonstrate WebRTC at MWC
Ericsson, Mozilla and AT&T will demonstrate a Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) proof of concept at Mobile World Congress 2013 this …
Adobe Reader exploit ‘part of cyber espionage operation’
The head of the malware analysis team at antivirus vendor Kaspersky said last week that a recently found exploit that …
Samsung tops 2012 smartphone sales list
Global smartphone sales went up by 38 percent in the fourth quarter year over year, Gartner reported on Wednesday, with …
Symantec unveils super-secure SSL certificates
Symantec on Wednesday began offering multi-algorithm SSL certificates for Web servers that go beyond traditional crypto to include what’s known …
Are 8 Windows more shatterproof than 7?
So far, the evidence suggests Windows 8 has hardly been the gleaming success that Microsoft no doubt hoped it would …
Linux now available on Windows 8 machines
The Linux Foundation has released software that will allow Linux to work with computers running the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware …
Windows Store app releases all but halt
A picture is worth a thousand words; the grey line in a graph from MetroStore Scanner, a site that keeps unofficial …
Windows 8 to create tablet shift – analyst
A research firm on Friday said that more than a third of surveyed consumers who once used personal computers to …
Gartner: IT pros will warm up to OS X
According to Gartner, by the end of next year, Apple laptops and notebooks will be just as accepted by IT …