WEF: Cyber Attacks are a Top Five Threat, Secure Systems Don't Exist
In case ending the work week on Friday the 13th wasn't enough of an ominous way to head into the weekend, consider this: for the first ever, the World Economic Forum (WEF) identified cyber attacks on...
View ArticleReport: Users Call Personalized Search A "Bad Thing" Due To Privacy,...
Google raised a lot of eyebrows when it introduced the Google+-infused Search Plus Your World personal results to its bread and butter Search results, but the most publicized criticisms have come from...
View ArticleReport: Windows 8 To Launch In October With Limited ARM Availability
In case you haven't heard, Windows 8 is coming. To be a little bit more specific, most analysts think it's coming later this year -- sometime in the fall, actually. Now we've got something more than...
View ArticleCedar Trail Successor Could Be a 22nm SoC with Ivy Bridge Graphics
Once abuzz with plenty of activity, the netbook segment wears a deserted look nowadays. PC vendors don’t seem to be interested in netbooks anymore and have turned their attention elsewhere. But Intel,...
View ArticleGartner Reportedly Lowers PC Shipment Forecast for 2012 and 2013
As with each new version of Windows, Microsoft is not the only one counting on the success of Windows 8. The entire PC industry is hoping that the next iteration of the world’s most popular PC...
View ArticleReport: Patent Trolls Cost Economy $29 Billion In 2011, Often Target The...
Don't feed the trolls; the axiom may work well for avoiding Godwin's Law in forum postings, but it isn't working so well in courtrooms around the globe. In fact, a new study from the Boston University...
View ArticleDigiTimes: AMD Trinity's Desktop Launch Pushed Back to October
So far today, I've talked about Nvidia and Intel -- let's work AMD into the mix. Remember how earlier reports pegged October as the likely release window for the company's next-generation "Vishera"AM3+...
View ArticleReport: Universal Stylus in the Works at Microsoft
A universal stylus capable of interacting with all kinds of displays, and not just touch-sensitive ones, is said to be in the works at Microsoft. According to the venerable MIT Technology Review, the...
View ArticleIn wake of Inane Speculation, Swedish E-tailer Clarifies Its 'High' Microsoft...
Will Microsoft’s Surface tablet really start at over $1,000? That is the question that has been on everyone’s mind ever since a listing for the upcoming Microsoft-branded tablet surfaced on Swedish...
View ArticleIntel Responds to 'Unsubstantiated' Reports of CEO's Anti-Windows 8 Remarks
Together Microsoft and Intel have ruled the PC industry for a ridiculously long time, but with smartphone and tablet sales going through the roof, they now have a lot to think about. While both parties...
View ArticleGlobal PC Shipments Continued Downward Trend in Fourth Quarter
Gartner and IDC blame poor Windows 8 uptake, bad economy and competing devicesWhile Microsoft’s recent claim that Windows 8 is following a similar sales trajectory as its predecessor may or may not be...
View ArticleNvidia Posts Financial Results for Q4, GPU Revenue up Nearly 50 Percent
PC gaming drives Q4 revenueNvidia has posted its fourth quarter financial results of fiscal 2014. Ending on January 26, 2014, the manufacturer revealed its reported revenue was $1.14 billion, an...
View ArticleWindows 9 Will Reportedly Have a Notification Center
A basic version said to be already present in early buildsAs September 30th, the day Microsoft is widely rumored to release a “technical preview” of the next version of Windows — codenamed "Threshold”...
View ArticleMicrosoft Exec: Windows 9 to be Free for Windows 8 Users
‘Threshold’ will be officially unveiled on September 30, 2014Microsoft has scheduled a special invite-only event for Tuesday, September 30, 2014, where it is widely expected to introduce the next...
View ArticleReport: HP to Split Into Two Companies
Announcement said to be imminentHewlett-Packard came extremely close to selling or spinning off its PC business during the disastrous year-long reign of CEO Léo Apotheker. It was around six months...
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