Asustek Confirms Eee PCs for Premium Market Segments |
The president of Asustek Computer, Jerry Shen, has confirmed at a news-conference in Taipei, Taiwan, that the company plans to launch Eee PC-branded mobile computers for higher-end market segm... |
Portugal to Buy Classmate PCs for Use in Schools |
Intel Corp. and Portugal have signed a memorandum of understanding under which the former will sell and help to deploy 500 thousand of Classmate PCs to the latter. The Portuguese government is... |
Lenovo Eyes Market of Inexpensive Netbooks |
Lenovo, one of the world’s largest makers of personal computers that is mostly known for its ThinkPad-branded business user-oriented premium-class laptops, is considering to enter the ma... |
Dell and HP Attempt to Fix Nvidia GeForce Issues with New Firmware |
Dell and HP, two of the world’s largest producers of personal computers, have released new firmware versions in order to try to fix the issues with potentially faulty Nvidia GeForce grap... |
Asustek Preps 23 Asus Eee PC Devices |
Even though Asus Eee PCs are positioned as easy-to-use everyday devices, the actual product lineup is from being easily understandable for a typical end-user now that there are about ten Eee s... |
Gartner Doubts that $100 Laptops will Emerge in Three Years |
One Laptop Per Child non-profit organization has failed to develop a laptop that would cost $100 to manufacture and Gartner market research firm believes that prices on components in the next ... |
Foxconn May Manufacture Low-End Laptops for Sony ?Rumours |
Even though Sony called ultra low-cost personal computers (ULCPCs) as “a race to bottom”, the company, along with other leading Japan-based computer suppliers, now to get int... |
Hardware Makers Also Pessimistic Regarding MIDs |
Not only customers in the U.S. are skeptical about mobile Internet devices (MIDs), but also hardware makers from Taiwan do not appear to have any optimistic feelings about the future of MIDs.C... |
Gigabyte Jumps on Netbook Bandwagon with M912V Tablet |
Gigabyte Technology, a leading maker of various computer components, this week announced its low-cost small form-factor mobile computer that will compete against systems like Asustek’s E... |
Intel Atom Chips to Find Home Inside Apple iPhone Handsets |
Even though Apple has acquired a chip designer and can now develop its own processors for its devices, some analysts believe that next-generation Apple iPhone handsets will be powered by Intel... |
Toshiba's New Laptops to Upscale DVDs to Nearly High-Definition Quality |
As expected, Toshiba Corp. has formally announced details about its Qosmio laptops that feature the company’s SpursEngine multimedia processor that is supposed to upscale standard-defini... |
Industry Leaders Team Up Against Apple, Google, Microsoft |
Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, on Monday said it would acquire stakes in Symbian, a leading developer of operating systems for mobile devices, that it does not yet ow... |
Voodoo Announces First Intel Metro-Like Notebook |
Voodoo, a high-end personal computer business unit of Hewlett Packard, has announced the world’s thinnest notebook to date. The Voodoo Envy 133 is among the first laptops which resembles... |
Divx Video to Play on AMD Imageon 250-Based Consumer Electronics |
Advanced Micro Devices and Divx on Wednesday said that they would enable playback of Divx-encoded video on mobile and consumer devices powered by AMD Imageon A250 processors. The agreement wou... |
Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel, Samsung, Sprint Ally to Form WiMAX Industry Patent Pool |
To accelerate the widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Clearwire, Intel Corp., Samsung Electronics and Sprint have announced the formatio... |