Intel's tablet adventure looking more like its netbook disaster
Intel's rise and fall in tablets are starting to resemble the company's misadventures in netbooks less than a decade ago.
Intel's rise and fall in tablets are starting to resemble the company's misadventures in netbooks less than a decade ago.
VMware will offer virtual desktop services for Google's Chromebooks, allowing them to run Windows applications on the pared-down laptops based on the Chrome OS.
Apple has removed a tethering app for the iPhone that let users share the smartphone's cellular connection to the Internet with a Mac or Windows notebook.
Apple will launch a 15-in. MacBook Air in the first quarter of 2012, according to a report from a Taiwanese publication that cited unnamed sources in the component supply channel.
Amazon's coming tablet could feature an annual library subscription model that would let readers access older books, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Online retailer Amazon.com is reportedly redesigning its Web site, which sells everything from books to electronics and handbags, with a focus on supporting tablet computer users.
Samsung has "no plans" to bring its new, stylish <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219654/Samsung_reveals_Android_based_notepad_updates_tablet">Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab 7.7</a> mobile devices to the U.S. market, according to a blogger reporting from the IFA event in Berlin.
Samsung, the largest manufacturer of NAND flash technology, has become the latest solid-state drive (SSD) maker to announce a SATA 3.0-compliant product that can serve data through a 6Gbit/sec pipe.
Google moved to push further into corporate IT shops when it unveiled the Chromebook netbook computer at its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco earlier this month.
Pharmaceutical sales reps are under pressure to find better ways to engage doctors during sales visits. Time-pressed primary care physicians typically give salespeople only 30 seconds per interaction.
Intel is facing increasing competition in the worldwide semiconductor industry -- but not from traditional <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215522/AMD_closes_in_on_Intel_with_move_to_32nm_chips">rival Advanced Micro Devices</a> .
ORLANDO -- The PlayBook tablet from Research in Motion, priced from $499, will go on sale April 19 at Best Buy stores, RIM and Best Buy announced Tuesday at the CTIA conference here.
ORLANDO -- Samsung Tuesday expanded its Galaxy Tab tablet line-up with a new device that has an 8.9-inch screen.
Production of Apple's iPad 2 may be hit with component shortages caused by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, an analyst said today.
Apple's iPad is leading an almost five-fold surge in NAND flash memory use this year as consumers gobble up tablets in increasing numbers, according to a report released today by HIS iSuppli.