August 15, 2012
You know how pessimists like to point out that if something is too good to be true, then it probably is? As much as we hate to admit it, that idiom most likely applies to a recent rumor suggesting Microsoft finalized plans to price its Windows RT-based…
Tags: microsoft, mobile, Surface, tablet, windows 8, windows rt
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August 9, 2012
With all due respect to Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, and any other mobile platform not named Android or iOS, you’re all just a bunch of also-rans in what’s becoming “unquestionably a two-horse race,” according to data and analysis by Internation…
Tags: android, Apple, Google, ios, mobile, operating system, samsung, Smartphone
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August 9, 2012
If you’re wondering how OEMs are going to compete with Microsoft’s own Surface tablet, here you go. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the ThinkPad line, Lenovo, which bought the brand from IBM in 1995, unveiled its first Windows 8 tablet, the Thi…
Tags: hardware, lenovo, maximum tech, mobile, News Worthy, slate, tablet, thinkpad tablet 2, windows 8, windows 8 pro
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July 17, 2012
In even more “future tech” news, Micron announced today that it has started mass production of a 45nm phase change memory solution for mobile devices. Phase change memory — so called because it uses heat from an electrical current to flip between vary…
Tags: Memory, micron, mobile, News Worthy, phase change memory
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July 11, 2012
Where there’s smoke, you’ll often find fire, which turned out to be the case when it was rumored Amazon was working on a low-cost tablet, a device that would turn out be the Kindle Fire. Now we’re hearing that Amazon wants to try its hand at the smartp…
Tags: amazon, hardware, mobile, Smartphone
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June 20, 2012
It’s been an exciting week for Microsoft, which just the other day unveiled its Surface tablet, a surprisingly promising device that just may have the legs to go the distance, if not with the iPad, then certainly against Android and ARM. But let’s not …
Tags: Acer, android, microsoft, mobile, slate, stan shih, Surface, windows 8, Windows tablet
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June 20, 2012
Chugga-chugga, chugga-chugga, choo-choo! That’s the Ultrabook train coming around the bend with yet another shipment of thin and light laptops, and this time it’s carrying a load of Acer Timeline Ultra M5 models throughout the U.S. Acer’s new Timeline …
Tags: Acer, hardware, laptop, mobile, notebook, rigs, Timeline, ultra m5, ultrabook
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June 19, 2012
If the latest rumors are true, Google is getting ready to attack the 7-inch tablet (or “tweener,” as Steve Jobs referred to them) market in a big way with a Nexus device it jointly developed with Asus. Word on the Web is that the two companies will unv…
Tags: 7 inch tablet, asus, Google, google I/O, hardware, mobile, nexus, slate, tablet
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