Taipei: Taiwan's Acer Inc said on Monday it would remain closer to US chipmaker Intel, even though Microsoft also embraces rival ARM for its new Windows 8 operating system. The world's No.4 PC vendor has given an upbeat outlook for the second half after delivering a quarterly net profit that lagged market expectations in April, betting on the launch of Microsoft's new Windows system and more slimline ultrabook computers. The...
03:46 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Taipei: Acer has introduced its Windows 8 Ultrabook devices - the Aspire S7 series - at Computex Taipei. Available in two sizes, 13.3-inch and 11.6-inch, these are touch-enabled ultrabooks. Both are said to have a sleek aluminum metallic unibody design. The larger model additionally sports a glossy, sculpted glass cover, thereby delivering a trendy and elegant appearance. With the aluminum unibody design, the S7 Ultrabooks are slim and light. The...
10:32 AM, Jun 04, 2012
New Delhi: Acer has unveiled its 2 new Windows 8 tablets - the Iconia W510 and the Iconia W700 - at Computex Taipei. It has a 10.1-inch touchscreen, and is said to provide a wider viewing angle with vibrant, consistent and accurate colors. The most unique part of the W510 tablet is said to be the tri-mode, thereby allowing users to touch, type and view. A detachable keyboard dock can...
09:36 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Redmond: Microsoft is nearly done with a much-anticipated overhaul of its Windows operating system. The software maker signalled the makeover is nearly complete with Thursday's release of the final test version of Windows 8. Windows 8 is considered to be the biggest change in decades to Microsoft's widely used operating system. The software displays applications in a mosaic of tiles and has been designed so it can run desktop, laptop...
01:25 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: While Nokia shrugged aside reports about a Windows 8 tablet, calling it 'misconstrued,' a Windows 8 tablet unexpectedly emerged from Dell. As per reports by Neowin, the image (as seen below) is of the Dell Latitude 10 Windows 8 tablet. It's a 10-inch tablet with HD capacitive multi-touch screen with 1366 x 768 resolution. The device is powered by Intel Clover Trail Atom Dual Core processor with 2GB...
10:39 AM, May 28, 2012
Bangalore: Global software major Microsoft will incubate 10 early-stage technology start-ups in cloud computing, internet and mobile using its Accelerator for Windows Azure programme to help them build businesses, a top official said Wednesday. "The start-ups will have access to our resources such as BizSpark programme and $60,000 in Azure credit through BizSpark Plus programme to take advantage of the cloud," Microsoft India (R&D) Managing Director Amit Chatterjee told reporters...
11:06 AM, May 24, 2012
San Francisco: Hewlett Packard Co plans to lay off roughly 27,000 employees or about 8 per cent of its workforce over the next couple of years to jumpstart growth and save up to $3.5 billion annually, sending its shares 11 percent higher. The company said the layoffs would be made mainly through early retirement and would generate annual savings of $3 billion to $3.5 billion as it exits fiscal year...
10:15 AM, May 24, 2012
Every year several domestic workers fall to their deaths from Singapore's apartment windows. This year alone, eight women have died while trying to clean apartment windows. ...
01:57 PM, May 22, 2012
Helsinki: Google's Android smartphone software stretched its market lead in early 2012, helped by new models from handset makers like Samsung and HTC and piling the pressure on rivals like Research In Motion and Nokia. Research from Kantar WorldPanel on Tuesday showed Android gaining share strongly in most of seven major markets - Australia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States - in the 12 weeks to mid...
04:21 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft has finally made available the full version of Skype app for Windows Phone platform. Using the Skype app for Windows Phone, users can engage in voice calls, video calls and texting with their contacts. This is in line with what Peter Wissing, director for Windows Phone at Microsoft, promised earlier this year. The Skype app v1.0 seeks permission from the user to access the device's phonebook and...
02:12 PM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Finnish mobile and smartphone manufacturer Nokia had announced the cheapest Windows Phone based Lumia 610 smartphone back in the month of February during the Mobile World Congress, and now the company is all set to make it available in India by as early as next month. The company has begun the roll out the Lumia 610 in certain Asian countries including China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan...
12:02 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Mumbai: Microsoft is expected to release the Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh aka the Tango update sometime later in June this year. The Windows Phone 7.5 Refresh update is meant for the low-end and entry level smartphones. First wave of the Windows Phone 7.5 Tango will be made available in China soon. A Windows centric Spanish blog, which quoted reliable sources, claimed that the Windows Phone 7.5 Tango launch will take...
01:48 PM, Apr 20, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft has now come up with information on editions that will be available for Windows 8, when it will be released. Windows 8 is the official product name for the next x86/64 editions of Windows. For PCs and tablets powered by x86 processors (both 32 and 64 bit), there will be two editions - Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro. According to the company, for majority, Windows 8...
12:15 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Helsinki: Nokia unveiled its Lumia 610 NFC model, first to take the emerging near-field communication technology that drives instant payment systems to Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, and promised more models in the future. "We're bringing NFC right across our portfolio," Ilari Nurmi, marketing chief at Nokia smartphone unit, said in a statement. Sales of NFC-enabled cellphones are expected to more than triple to 100 million handsets this year as manufacturers...
06:01 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Nokia has now officially announced the availability of the Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone in white colour in India. The phone was earlier available in three colours - Cyan, Magenta and Black. The company, in February, announced on its official blog that the white Lumia 800 will come out soon. And, today is the day when the company has officially rolled out the white Lumia 800 in the Indian...
11:42 AM, Apr 11, 2012
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