Despite another strong quarter for chipmaker Intel in terms of revenue, the chipmaking giant couldn’t help but be disappointed by its continued failures to break into the mobile market and the decline of its low powered Atom chipset.
Intel posted Q311 revenue of $13 billion,...
Tablet maker Lenovo today announced a trio of new 10.1-inch tablet devices, with two that run on Android 3.1 and one that operates on Windows 7.
The Android-based tablets are marketed for consumers under the name IdeaPad Tablet K1 and for sold for business users...
Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc. (APPL) and its iPad 2 is still the most popular tablet around the globe, even after it’s been on the shelves for four months. In the last couple of weeks, Apple has finally chipped away at a vast backlog of...
Austin-based Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (FSL) announced a trio of new members to the company’s i.MX50 product family, placing a big bet on the thriving eReader device market while more powerful tablet computers threaten to unseat eReaders.
The family of i.MX50 chips launched in 2010 with...
Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) wants to dominate the sports stadium and entertainment industry by catering to the end user and wants to make flawless reception and especially smartphone and tablet use a pleasant luxury at large venues.
Cisco launched the company’s new...
Macheen Inc., an Austin-based mobile broadband service provider for retailers and device makers, announced that the company raised $10 million to put into product innovation, sales and marketing. Founded in 2009, Macheen has now raised a total $12.75 million to support expansion of the...
Paul Mansky seems confident in his assessment of Dell (DELL). The Canaccord Genuity analyst wrote that with sales of personal computers waning due to the rise of tablets, the Round Rock-based company needs to make a move into networking, and should do it by...
Poor PC vendors. If a new report by analyst firm IDC is to be believed, the world and his wife are conspiring to reduce PC shipment growth for the rest of 2011. At the beginning of the year IDC predicted 7.1% growth for the PC sector, however after a poor Q1 that forecast has now been revised down to just 4.2%.
Austin-based Macheen Inc., announced that the company formed an advisory board and now has a VP of marketing in Kent Libby.
While often quiet about the company’s business plans, CEO Richard Schwartz spoke with RCR Wireless at CTIA in Orlando in March, expanding on Macheen’s...
Taipei, Taiwan - Rumor on the showfloor has it that while Nvidia's Tegra 2 virtually cleared up in terms of design wins, Tegra 3 might not have the same luck.
Knock the PlayBook all you want, but by all accounts it appears to be doing what Motorola Inc.’s Xoom did in its first two months of availability, according to RBC Capital Markets.
“I’ll take your iPad and raise you 10” – seems to be Intel Corp.’s message to tablet hungry consumers, as the firm readies itself for the launch of almost a dozen new devices running on its own Atom chips at Computex, Taipei.
A little while ago we discussed how analyst predictions about Apple's iPad dominating the tablet market for the next four to five years seemed broadly plausible, despite the historical inaccuracies of those same analyst's long-term forecasts. Today numbers released by research firm Nielsen indicate the iPad's inevitable slide may have already begun.
Eye-Fi Inc., makers of memory cards with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities, is introducing “direct mode,” which allows the transfer of photos from a camera with an Eye-Fi card for a direct and wireless transition to an iOS or Android device, including...
Lord knows we've been waiting for this particular tablet long enough, since we first laid eyes (and hands) on it back in January at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Reuters | March 8, 2011 | Clare Jim
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's UMC, the world's No.2 contract chipmaker, posted a 4.3 percent rise in February sales, thanks to a surge in demand in new electronic products including smartphones and tablet computers.
Analysts said the sales came at the...
Reuters | March 8, 2011 | Clare Jim
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's UMC, the world's No.2 contract chipmaker, posted a 4.3 percent rise in February sales, thanks to a surge in demand in new electronic products including smartphones and tablet computers.
Analysts said the sales came at the...
Focus Taiwan | February 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Wu
Taipei, Feb. 22 (CNA) HTC Corp., the world's fifth-largest smartphone maker, plans to build an open platform for mobile video content on its smartphones and tablet PCs to create new value and strengthen ties with its...
PLANO, Texas— Dell Services recently announced a line of six new services and solutions that are designed to aid enterprise customers achieve benefits of mobile collaboration, computing and communications-enhanced business processes. The new “enterprise mobility services” comprise a portfolio of enterprise scale end-to-end solutions...
Kunekt | January 24, 2011 | Press Release
Kunekt to Design, Build and Market Quality Mobile Phones and Android Smartphones and Tablets in Developed and Developing Countries
HONG KONG, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Kunekt Corporation (OTCBB: KNKT), creator of the Kunekt global brand of affordably priced,...
Lenovo | January 18, 2011 | Press Release
BEIJING – January 18, 2011: Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced it is establishing a new business group, the Mobile Internet and Digital Home Business Group (MIDH), responsible for creating mobile Internet-focused devices, including tablets and...
