Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Windows and other traditional PC operating systems are “torturing users” at Google’s Chrome OS launch …
Google Android OS going strong: Canalys
Market research firm Canalys has given Google’s Android OS a 35% share of the smartphone market for the first quarter …
Intel and Micron shrink NAND flash
Intel and Micron Technology said they had shrunk NAND flash memory in size, which could help add more storage and …
IEEE approves next WiMax standard
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has approved IEEE 802.16m, the standard for the next generation of WiMax, which …
Intel expects Oak Trail tablets to be available in May
Intel expects tablets running its power-efficient chip code-named Oak Trail to become available next month, the company said recently. Intel …
Google Android 3.0 needs more work
Google will not release the source code for Honeycomb, the version of its Android mobile OS optimised for tablets, until …
The choice illusion
Recently I went shopping for a laptop. As a family, we have owned and still call ours a couple of …
Android tops BlackBerry, iPhone
Google’s Android smartphones took the top spot in the U.S. for the first time, hitting 31.2% in the latest comScore …
SAP bets on in-memory, mobility in new BI release
SAP is hoping to gain ground in the increasingly heated market for BI (business intelligence) software, announcing a suite on …
Mobile heavyweights seek to finalise 1Gbps standard
The world’s top handset makers are meeting this week to finalise a version of an advanced mobile communication standard that …
Dell introduces server with 96 CPU cores
Dell yesterday introduced a server that can accommodate up to 96 CPU cores — a big boost in the computational …
Doing a Ratner
It may be known only in the UK, but people in business anywhere in the world can recognise ‘that Ratner …
Nokia-Microsoft: is this the path to success or continued failure?
The broad Nokia-Microsoft partnership announced yesterday in which the Windows Phone operating system would run on Nokia smartphones sounds like …
Nokia and Microsoft partner on smartphone future
Microsoft and Nokia yesterday announced an alliance that pairs the world’s largest phone maker with the software giant in a …
Android sales leap to second place: Gartner
Android in 2010 became the second best selling smartphone operating system after Symbian from Nokia, Gartner reported yesterday. Android sales …
Mobile app store revenue will surpass $15b in 2011: Gartner
Worldwide mobile application store downloads are forecast to reach 17.7 billion downloads in 2011, a 117% increase from an estimated …
Cisco invests in cloud chip maker
Founded in 2004, Tilera makes general purpose multicore processors for networking, wireless, and multimedia infrastructure applications. Tilera's processors are based …
90% of Microsoft software in China is pirated: Ballmer
While Chinese President Hu Jintao knew he’d face some tough questions when he came to the United States this week, …
What technologies can the UAE expect in 2011?
Whether it the flood of Apple iPad’s that made their way to the UAE or the Blackberry fiasco that ensued …
Galaxy Tab sales hit 1 million
Samsung has sold 1 million Galaxy Tab tablet devices worldwide just two months after putting it on sale outside the …