Hewlett-Packard is more serious about its newly acquired webOS platform than we ever thought before. It will soon be available on every new HP PC – that's what the recently appointed HP CEO, Leo Apotheker, is claiming, according to BusinessWeek:
Posted February 15, 2011, 1:07 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
Asus expects to ship between 1.5 million and 2 million tablet PCs in 2011, a spokesperson said during the company's February 11 investors conference, according to DigiTimes. In fact, the OEM's Q4 2010 Investor Conference slides reveal that it is…
Roughly a week after announcing a design flaw in the "Cougar Point" chipset tied to its Sandy Bridge processor platform, Intel has announced it is resuming shipments of the defective part to manufacturers that plan to use it in systems…
Posted February 7, 2011, 10:51 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
HP has unveiled its first touchscreen desktop PCs that feature a 60-degree reclining display. The new HP TouchSmart 610 Consumer PC (available on February 9, 2011 starting at $900) and HP TouchSmart 9300 Elite Business PC (available in May 2011…
Posted January 17, 2011, 11:04 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
The UK government wants to offer low-cost computers as part of a 12-month trial during Race Online 2012. The scheme, which aims to reach out to the 9.2 million adults that are not yet online, 4 million of whom are…
Posted January 9, 2011, 11:47 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Hardware
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has promised that the company will support Kinect for PCs sometime in the future. This is news that should make Bill Gates a very happy man. The motion controller is currently only officially supported for the…
Posted December 7, 2010, 2:45 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware
With CES 2011 only a few weeks away now, it's becoming apparent that Toshiba is planning to debut three tablet computers in the next quarter. One will run Windows 7, one will be powered by Android, and one will feature…
Posted November 3, 2010, 7:02 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Windows XP is still powering 75 percent of business computers in North America and Europe, according to Forrester Research. Compared to the world at large, where Windows XP just fell under 60 percent, this number is quite high.
Posted October 22, 2010, 6:00 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Today is a very important day for Microsoft: it's the first day that Windows XP can no longer be bundled on new PCs and it's also the first anniversary of the release of Windows 7. Either Microsoft planned for these…
Posted October 22, 2010, 9:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Without fail, boutique system builders like Maingear are quickly updating their desktop offerings to include AMD's freshly launched Radeon HD 6800 series graphics cards. The Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 are now configuration options on the company's Vybe and X-Cube…
Posted October 14, 2010, 4:23 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Microsoft has released its ninth Security Intelligence Report, providing a detailed look at botnets over the first half of 2010. Botnets controlled almost 2.2 million computers in the US during the second quarter of 2010 -- nearly identical to the…
Posted October 7, 2010, 4:02 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in IT Security, The Web
In its effort to tackle botnets, Microsoft has offered a potential solution that would prevent botnet-infected computers from accessing the Internet. In a blog post this week, Redmond's Scott Charney described a "global collective defense" and compared his vision to…
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