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Posted February 7, 2013, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft
Microsoft recently took to social news and entertainment website Reddit to field a number of questions regarding the upcoming Surface Pro tablet. Specifically, Redmond’s Panos Panay with the Surface Windows 8 Pro engineering team as well as a number of…
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Posted November 30, 2012, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Mobile Computing
Results from a recent study by wireless testing and measurement firm Spirent Communications reveals that voice calls over LTE (VoLTE) consume up to two times as much power as a standard 2G call. This isn’t exactly great news for phone…
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Posted June 14, 2012, 12:25 AM by Steven Walton | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
Instead of breaking new ground in performance, Ivy Bridge improves efficiency, marking the arrival of Intel's 22nm design process which uses new 3D transistors. This allows the flagship quad-core 3.5GHz Core i7-3770K to consume less power than the more modest Sandy Bridge i5-2500K.

Granted, the 19-watt power savings we recorded in our tests probably won't excite desktop users, but it does present a tangible benefit for battery-bound mobile machines. Ivy Bridge's improved fuel efficiency should grant laptops a little more mileage away from wall chargers.
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Posted April 6, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Software
Internet Explorer isn't the fastest or most featured-packed browser around, but it might be the most power efficient. Hoping to determine which software would give his aging desktop replacement the longest battery life, Ciprian Adrian Rusen put IE9, IE10, Chrome, Firefox and Opera to the test...
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Posted March 20, 2012, 6:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Mobile Computing, Industry News
According to a study by (PDF) Purdue University and Microsoft, free mobile applications aren't without a catch after all: you're paying for them in battery life. Abhinav Pathak and two of his colleagues designed an energy profiling tool called eprof to analyze…
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Posted November 2, 2011, 6:30 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Apple, Mobile Computing
Shortly after the iPhone 4S launched, customers began reporting about unexpectedly poor battery life. Those complaints escalated last week as various media outfits picked the story up, prompting more users to step forward about their experiences with Apple's latest handset…
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Posted October 30, 2011, 4:03 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Apple, NATW
iPhone 4S battery life problems: bug in location services suspected A flaw in Apple's location services system in its new iOS 5 software is increasingly suspected of being the cause of rapid battery drain for some owners of the iPhone 4S. A…
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