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Advanced Micro Devices is confident that its upcoming microprocessors code-named “Beema” and “Mullins” designed for low-power laptops and tablets, respectively, will outperform Intel Corp.’s existing Atom system-on-chips that belong to the code-named “Bay Trail” platform. AMD claims that its upcoming “Beema” and “Mullins” accelerated processing units for various low-power devices …

Despite of the rather high price, Apple’s latest Mac Pro cylindrical workstation is still very hard to get. Previously it was reported that Apple’s retail stores would only start selling the new PCs in March or April. Now it turns out that even online Apple store in will not be …

Technical specifications of the world’s first media tablets based on Mozilla’s FirefoxOS platform have been published. As expected, Mozilla and its manufacturing partner Foxconn Electronics, plan to initially address emerging markets with tablets featuring FirefoxOS. As a result, the hardware that powers the slate is hardly impressive. The first tablet …

Hampoo may not be a brand that everyone is hugely familiar with, but it's certainly gaining a name for itself after its recent CES showing, where its new fleet of touch screen devices offered built in gaming controls and glasses free 3D for the gamers and media viewers out there …

SK Telecom on Monday said it had developed a new wireless broadband technology that aggregates bandwidth from three bands and can support speeds up to 300Mbps. The South Korean company may commercialize the technology in late 2014. SK Telecom has successfully developed LTE-Advanced 3 Band Carrier Aggregation, which aggregates 3 …

Sharp Corp. this week announced a new tablet for business and professional users that has 15.6” display with 3200*1800 resolution and runs Windows 8.1 Pro operating system. The slate could be an ideal solution for plethora of specialists who require high-quality display, but do not need to type a lot. …

T-Mobile is in a bit of trouble with its UK customers today after a glitch wiped the credit off of many pay as you go customer accounts. Upon finding out that their credit had disappeared, an army of angry customers made their way to the EE customer support forums to …

Intel Corp. reiterated plans to start volume production of its next-generation microprocessors code-named “Broadwell” using 14nm process technology this quarter. Manufacturing yields of the chips have improved, according to the company. Commercial introduction of the new chips is expected in the second half of the year. Intel’s code-named “Broadwell” central …

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Thursday said it had begun mass production of chips using 20nm process technology ahead of its own schedule. The new fabrication process will help fabless chip designers (e.g., AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, etc.) to create processors with higher transistor count, lower power consumption and improved performance. …

Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, has been trying to make a comeback to the market of phones for some time now. In the U.S., the firm got some success with Moto X and Moto G handset; the former is set to hit European markets in the coming weeks . …

Hewlett Packard on Wednesday returned to the market of smartphones and introduced its highly-anticipated handsets. The new “Slate VoiceTab” family of devices offers large displays and promising performance. Unfortunately, those hybrid smartphones will be initially available only in India and, perhaps, some other developing countries. The line of HP’s smartphones …

When it comes to smartphones, Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S-series provides almost unbeatable performance and feature-set, in many cases these handsets are more impressive than Apple’s iPhones. But when it comes to media tablets, then Galaxy Tab family has a limited amount of advantages compared to the iPad. This year, the …

The Moto X smartphone had a lot of hype surrounding it leading up to its US launch late last year, it was the first Motorola device to be released under Google's ownership and it certainly shows. The phone focuses heavily on software improvements and the user experience rather than the …

At the Consumer Electronics Show this year tens of companies revealed their smart wearable gadgets designed for various use cases. However, market analysts believe that the actual revolution on the market of wearable computing devices will start after Apple says its word and releases its highly-anticipated iWatch gadget. Last year …

Amazon, the world’s largest online store, is working on a new hardware project that is supposed be a bigger revolution than Kindle e-book reader or Kindle Fire media tablet. What will it be? The only thing known is that it will deliver media content to Amazon’s customers and is currently …

Jason Chen, a former executive from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. who recently became chief executive officer of Acer Group, has failed to impress investors who attended his press conference in Taiwan early on Monday. The new head of the company did not present a lot of ideas regarding the future …

Samsung Electronics has traditionally released its flagship smartphones in the first half of the year around March – April timeframe. In cases of Galaxy S III and Galaxy S4, their launches were surrounded by loads of teases, leaks and rumours months ahead of formal announcements. But while everything seems to …

Until now, Intel Corp.’s success on the market of Google Android-based smartphones and tablets has been pretty mediocre since x86 microprocessors could not bring a lot of advantages to mobile devices. However, Intel’s latest system-on-chips support 64-bit processing capability, something no one else can offer for Android. Moreover, Intel has …

Apple and Samsung this week agreed to hold mediation talks ahead of the third trial between the companies in two years that starts in March. The companies proposed to discuss possible settlement by chief executive officers of the two firms as well as their senior legal counsels. The talks do …

In an attempt to make devices based on its chips more competitive, Intel Corp. plans to bring human-like senses to a broad range of personal computers, the company outlined at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. To make this possible, the chip giant has developed a combination of software and …

Panasonic on Tuesday introduced the world’s first and yet the only tablet PC with 7” display that is based on Intel Core i5 “Haswell” microprocessor as well as Microsoft Windows 8.1 operating system. The tablet not only sports high-performance central processing unit and fully-fledged Windows, but is also rugged and …

Google Android is slowly, but surely, becoming the most popular operating system for media tablets thanks to support from various hardware makers. But in addition to Apple’s iOS and Microsoft Windows, Android may face competition from an unexpected rival – Mozilla’s Firefox OS – now that it is promoted by …

At the Consumer Electronics Show the world’s largest maker of microprocessors – Intel Corp. – demonstrated what looks to be the world’s smallest personal computer based on an x86 microprocessor. Intel Edison is a new Quark-based computer with built-in wireless connectivity housed in a Secure Digital card form-factor. Intel Edison …

Nvidia Corp. on Monday introduced two Tegra K1 system-on-chips (code-named Logan) for mobile devices that feature the company’s Kepler graphics architecture as well as 32-bit or 64-bit general-purpose processing engines. As expected, the new chips not only improve graphics performance of mobile gadgets like smartphones and tablets, but also bring …

Nvidia Corp. on Friday confirmed plans to demonstrate its new-generation Tegra application processor for mobile devices at the Consumer Electronics Show 2014 that begins next week. The fifth-generation Tegra system-on-chip (SoC) will bring new levels of performance to high-end mobile devices. The company mostly known for its GeForce graphics cards …

Microsoft Corp. has quietly started to ship an updated version of its Surface Pro 2 tablet with a new microprocessor inside. The new CPU works at higher clock-rate and provides better performance compared to the one that Microsoft used initially with its latest slate. When Microsoft first introduced the Surface …

Intel Corp. plans to demonstrate all-new wearable computing devices it designed in-house at the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show that begins next-week. The chip giant will also introduce a new version of Quark chip aimed at various types of electronics that need to be small and have very low power consumption. …

If your young one wants a tablet, you don't have very many options as not many tablets are designed with kids in mind but film studio, Dreamworks, is looking to change that as it plans to release its own tablet, the ‘Dreamtab', later this year. For this release, Dreamworks will …

Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of microprocessors, has been selling various system-on-chips for mobile devices for years now. Unfortunately, it hasn't been that successful with the smartphones and tablets market. But the company remains optimistic and has given itself some pretty aggressive targets. This year Intel plans to sell …

Without doubt, Apple’s new Mac Pro workstation is impressive both inside and outside. Unfortunately, its availability is pretty scarce at the moment even in the U.S. According to a media report, the product will be available for purchase in Apple’s own stores sometime in March or April. At present Apple …