Acer reported fourth quarter profit of $2.4 million, a financial turnaround after the company faced back-to-back losses in the previous two quarters. …
Windows 8 on ARM to include Office apps for tablets
Windows 8 on ARM, dubbed WOA by Microsoft, could offer a platform for workers wanting to run Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint …
Apple beats HP in PC and tablet race
Apple has overtaken HP as the largest supplier of PCs in the global market, according to new figures from analyst …
Intel makes management changes
Intel has appointed a new chief operating officer and new heads to run the PC and data centre groups, it …
Intel reports strong Q4 revenue
Intel reported strong revenue and profit growth in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, overcoming a sharp drop in revenue …
Lenovo U300s
Lenovo, the world’s second largest PC maker has released its first UltraBook. Overview The first concept of an UltraBook was …
Acer to offer free cloud service
Acer kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday by previewing a free cloud service for storing images and other …
HDD washout in Thailand
October?s flooding of Thailand has knocked out close to half of the global hard disk manufacturing base. Normalcy will take …
Dell pulls back from netbook market
Dell has confirmed that it has ceased production of its Inspiron Mini netbook computer, in effect ending its pursuit of …
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 …
Microsoft quarter shows continued growth
Microsoft kicked off its first quarter of fiscal 2012 with solid growth, reporting a 7% increase in revenue compared to …
Intel CEO faults recent evolution of PCs
Intel CEO Paul Otellini came to the defence of PCs at an industry conference, while outlining his belief that the …
Intel ships a new generation of Atom chips
Intel yesterday started shipping new low-power Atom chips built on the platform code-named Cedar Trail, with numerous improvements to boost …
Intel boosts laptop battery, graphics with Ivy Bridge
Chip and system-level improvements that Intel is making with the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture will result in laptops out next year …
Thunderbolt with fibre optics years away: Intel
Intel’s Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology, which shuffles data between PCs and devices like displays and external storage, could be years …
Intel CEO outlines plans to lead future of computing
Intel Corporation today announced a new effort with Google that aims to accelerate Intel’s business in smartphones at the Intel …
Apple warned Intel to slash power consumption
Apple threatened to drop Intel as a component supplier unless it produced chips with drastically lower power consumption, it has …
Tablets making an impact on OS and PC designs: IDC
The post-PC era is not yet upon us, executives from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices insisted, when questioned about the …