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Article | 23/05/2013 Powerful thin clients may be alternative to PCs
Thin clients introduced this week by Dell and Hewlett-Packard have faster processor than existing thin clients as well as high-definition graphics cap...
Article | 23/05/2013 Evernote can now remind you to update your notes
Evernote has unveiled a new update for the Web, iOS, and Mac versions of its note-taking service: a new reminders function, which prompts users to mak...
Article | 23/05/2013 Amazon Kindle Fire HD tablets to go on sale in 170 countries on June 13
Amazon.com is expanding the distribution of its tablets in a big way with the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 now available for preorder in over...
Article | 23/05/2013 Windows 8.1 laptops with AMD's new chips to support wireless display
Advanced Micro Devices hopes to regain share in the PC processor market with its upcoming chips based on the Jaguar core, which will bring console-lik...
Article | 23/05/2013 HP $399 touchscreen laptop breaks price barrier
Hewlett-Packard has introduced a new wave of Envy and Pavilion thin and light laptops, including an 11.6-inch touchscreen model priced aggressively at...
Article | 23/05/2013 HP's Envy Rove 20-inch 'tablet' tackles Windows 8 desktop PC woes
Windows 8 has not found wide adoption among desktop users, so HP has announced a new portable all-in-one and lowered the price of touch PCs so users c...
Article | 23/05/2013 AMD willing to embrace Android
Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcom...
Article | 22/05/2013 HP profit falls 32 per cent as PC and server sales decline
Hewlett-Packard reported a 32 per cent drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers.
Article | 22/05/2013 Study ranks US least risky place to open data center
Last year the U.S. was the least risky place in the world to open a data center, according to a study released this week.
Article | 22/05/2013 Nvidia, Citrix crank up virtual desktop delivery
Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could s...
Article | 20/05/2013 Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 to contain Intel Atom chip, source says
Samsung will soon release its first Android tablet based on an Intel Atom processor, according to a source familiar with the plan, in what would be a ...
Article | 17/05/2013 Dell's thumb PC, Project Ophelia, to ship in July
Dell's thumb-sized PC called Project Ophelia, which is the size of a USB stick, will start shipping in July for around US$100.
Article | 17/05/2013 Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative
Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happeni...
Article | 17/05/2013 New iPhone: Sapphire crystal fingerprint scanner 'to be embedded in home button'
There have been plenty of rumours circulating that Apple is planning to incorporate fingerprint readers into the new iPhone, and now confirmation that...
Article | 16/05/2013 Lawmakers press Google on Glass privacy
Members of a U.S. congressional group on privacy wrote Thursday to Google CEO Larry Page requesting information on how the futuristic device handles p...