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Article | 13/04/2011 HP sees GPUs taking more computing load

Graphics processors have always been popular in workstations, but are increasingly handling a larger computational load and bringing supercomputer-lik...

Article | 13/04/2011 Toshiba Introduces Svelte Tecra and Portege Laptops

Toshiba announced on Tuesday its new range of slim, high-performance laptops geared towards business professionals, the Portege R830, Tecra R840, and ...

Article | 13/04/2011 Tablet outlook: Apple iPad will dominate...or plummet

Gartner released a report predicting the state of the tablet market for the next few years. Depending on your perspective, and whether you choose to b...

Article | 13/04/2011 Gigabyte prices Windows 7 tablet PC to match iPad in Taiwan

Gigabyte Technology has begun taking orders for its S1080 Windows 7 tablet in its home market of Taiwan, and expects to start sales in other parts of ...

Article | 12/04/2011 Intel hints at another new tablet chip, called Cloverview

Intel has hinted that is developing another next-generation chip for tablets, called "Cloverview," as part of its ongoing strategy to make its Atom pr...

Article | 11/04/2011 Apple admits iPad 2 3G issues

Apple admitted on Friday it is looking into a Verizon 3G connectivity issue that some iPad 2 owners are reporting.

Article | 8/04/2011 New GNOME cuts the clutter

Five years in the making, the newly released version 3 of the GNOME Linux desktop interface has been radically redesigned.

Article | 8/04/2011 Microsoft goes after iPad search users with new Bing app

Microsoft will try to lure iPad users to its search engine with a new Bing application built specifically for the popular Apple tablet device.

Article | 7/04/2011 Quake unlikely to raise prices, say Taiwanese PC makers

Taiwanese PC makers said on Thursday that product prices would hold steady this year despite disruptions to raw material supplies after the massive Ja...

Article | 7/04/2011 Happy 20th birthday, Linux: The celebrations begin

The Linux Foundation on Wednesday kicked off what will be several months of celebrations in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Linux operating syste...

Article | 7/04/2011 Canonical commits to netbooks over tablets for Ubuntu

Canonical has not yet built an Ubuntu Linux distribution for tablets and will continue development of the OS for PCs and netbooks, company executives ...

Article | 6/04/2011 Judge tosses $625.5M patent judgment against Apple

A federal judge yesterday tossed a $625.5 million patent infringement judgment against Apple, discarding a 2010 jury verdict that said the company vio...

Article | 6/04/2011 Shocker: No Dell Windows 7 tablet until September

In news that should surprise no one, Dell's Windows 7 tablet may not be ready until September at the earliest.

Article | 6/04/2011 Microsoft Windows troubleshooter goes remote

Microsoft has expanded the capabilities of its Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) to allow administrators to troubleshoot ill-behaving desktop Wi...

Article | 4/04/2011 What Microsoft's IE9 moves mean for you

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has created some ripples in the browser sector lately, which could have implications regardless of whether you are in th...

Article | 5/04/2011 TI buys National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion

Texas Instruments on Monday announced it has agreed to acquire semiconductor company National Semiconductor for US$6.5 billion in an all-cash transact...

Article | 5/04/2011 iPad 2 supplies creep closer to demand

Apple's supply of the iPad 2 edged closer to demand today as the company's online store showed a two-to-three week shipping delay.

Article | 5/04/2011 Wozniak: Tablet is the PC for 'normal people'

Tablets are the culmination of what Steve Jobs wanted to create at Apple from the beginning, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said Monday.

Article | 5/04/2011 AMD's Llano chip to reach laptops this quarter

Laptops and desktops with Advanced Micro Devices' A-series chips will become available from PC makers this quarter, the company's CEO said on Monday.

Article | 2/04/2011 Japan disaster puts historic hurt on chip industry

No other disaster has hurt the worldwide computer chip industry more than last month's earthquake and tsunami in Japan, according to analysts.