Apple wins top score for App Store
Apple's App Store had the top score among mobile application storefronts ranked by ABI Research, but Microsoft's Windows Store narrowly beat the field for its degree of innovation.
View ArticleUltra-hyped ultrabooks ultra-flopped in 2012
Just 12 months ago, the ultrabook was widely regarded as the PC market's savior. Since then, it's become more of a punch line.
View ArticleAnalyst pegs 'iPhone Mini' price at between $299 and $349
Apple may be able to build a cut-rate iPhone for $144, which would let it price the device between $299 and $349, hundreds less than the unsubsidized price tag of its flagship smartphone, an analyst...
View ArticleSSD market revenue set to more than double
Just as MP3 players, and in particular iPods, boosted NAND flash sales from the mid-2000s through last year, ultrabooks are expected to lead a more than doubling of global shipments of SSDs in 2013.
View ArticleApple doubles down on iPad by doubling max storage to 128GB
Apple today doubled the maximum storage space of its fourth-generation iPad to 128GB, and announced it would start selling the new tablet next week.
View ArticleDRAM trends herald a slowdown in PC uptake
With accelerating growth in tablets and smartphones and a maturing of OSes, PCs are seeing far less growth in DRAM use.
View ArticleChina's unique PC buying trends revealed in survey
China took the title of world's largest market for PCs in 2012, and a survey by IHS iSuppli revealed that computer buyers in the country had unique preferences compared to counterparts worldwide.
View ArticleGalaxy S4's U.S. version needs added image processor for eye-tracking
Samsung has built several different Galaxy S4 smartphones, including a U.S. version running a Snapdragon processor that requires an extra image processor to enable heavily promoted user functions such...
View ArticleApple's Mac move could spur PCIe flash flurry in other notebooks, desktops
With Apple's announcement that it'll bypass a SATA SSD in its Mac Pro and MacBook Air and go straight for the stratosphere of flash with a PCIe card, some pundits are speculating other laptops and...
View ArticleUltrabooks give SSD shipments a boost
Shipments of solid-state drives (SSDs) rocketed in this year's first quarter and the technology is now becoming the storage of choice in thin and light laptops.
View ArticleHow Apple could have built a cheaper iPhone 5C
Apple could have built a much less expensive iPhone, a move most analysts expected before Sept. 10, but that would have risked destroying intangible advantages the company has accumulated over decades,...
View ArticleHefty price premium awaits early DDR4 memory adopters
With new DDR4 memory, computers will be faster next year but users will likely pay a premium on the price of the technology.
View ArticleApple customers downsize iPhone, iPad storage in March quarter
U.S. iPhone and iPad sales skewed more toward devices with less storage space in the March quarter compared to the final three-month period of 2013.
View Article5 reasons why Google can catch Amazon in the Cloud
Google, according to industry analysts, is positioning itself to take on Amazon's dominance as a cloud provider. While it's lagging today, Google could catch Amazon and some day supplant its top...
View ArticleSuper-fast Wi-Fi coming to a public hotspot near you
Wireless hotspots that can deliver hundreds of megabits per second in real-world bandwidth will become more common as operators increase their investments in Wi-Fi networks.
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