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This week, Apple is expected to announce a refresh of several iPod products (including the touch) and possibly the Apple TV. The real drama remains with its higher-profile offerings -- the iPhone and iPad -- and last week, Qualcomm gave a credible look at their compelling future. However, with phone...
Intel on Monday announced that 12 new netbooks based on its dual-core mobile Intel Atom processors, code-named "Pine Trail," are now available. These are available from eight vendors, including Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba. Other vendors will announce their new netbooks running the N550 soon, Inte...
Google will launch a Chrome OS tablet on the Verizon network Nov. 26, know to retailers as "Black Friday," according to the Download Squad. The device is being built by HTC, a company that's made several Android devices in the past. If true, the move will fulfill Google's announcement earlier this y...
I spent last week on Mark Hurd's firing, er involuntary resignation, and watched the backstory develop, and it isn't pretty. Hurd was likely the third-hardest guy to fire in Silicon Valley behind Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison -- and yet, at least initially, he seemed to be fired as a result of a fals...
Microsoft rekindled its on-again, off-again love affair with tablet PCs late last month, as CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts that it's giving top priority to its tablet project. However, he was vague about the details. The tablet would run on Intel's forthcoming Oak Trail processors, he sai...
Satellite television provider Dish Network plans to release a load of apps this fall that will allow its subscribers to watch its program offerings on Apple's iFamily of mobile devices -- the iPhone, iPad and iPod -- as well as Research In Motion Blackberries and smartphones running Google's Android...
Motorola and Verizon may be working on a new tablet device on which users will be able to watch TV. The Android-based tablet will feature a 10-inch screen and will be closely linked with Verizon's FiOS digital pay-television service, according to "people briefed on the plans," the Financial Times re...
Amazon's new, slimmed-down Kindle devices are notable for several things, not the least of which are the upgrades to their experimental WebKit browser. It's faster and easier to navigate, says Amazon, and its new "article mode" feature extracts the main text-based content from Web pages for easier r...
Microsoft recently announced record revenues of $16.04 billion for its fourth fiscal quarter of the year, which ended June 30. This was 22 percent up year over year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were up 49 percent, 48 percent and 50 percent, respectivel...
India's Ministry of Human Resource Development has unveiled a prototype of a touchscreen computer that will initially cost $35. Eventually, Minister Shri Kapil Sibal said, the price will drop to $20 and then $10. In photos, the device looks much like the sleek tablet-style PCs coming on the market a...
HP says it has begun customer evaluation of a Windows 7 tablet that appears to resemble the Windows-based touchscreen device that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer trotted out in January at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. The device, apparently called the "HP Slate 500," will run Windows 7 Premium. It...
HP has delayed the launch of its Android tablet device, All Things Digital reported on Thursday. The tablet had been scheduled for release at the end of the year. It's believed HP is pushing back work on the Android device in order to focus on a tablet running webOS, the operating system it acquired...
Research In Motion on Monday announced BlackBerry Protect, a free service that will enhance the security of both enterprise and private BlackBerry device owners. BlackBerry Protect will enable remote wipe and wireless backup and restore, among other things. It is being launched in limited beta this ...
Microsoft will roll out multiple Windows 7 slate devices "over the course of the next several months," company CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed in a keynote speech on Monday. "This year one of the most important things that we will do in the smart device category is really push forward with Windows 7-bas...
Toshiba on Monday unveiled the Libretto W100, a limited-edition ultra-mobile concept PC. It has dual touchscreens and runs Windows 7. The W100 is the latest in Toshiba's Libretto line of subnotebooks. It has two 7-inch diagonal multitouch displays with a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels and a six-mo...
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