Tag: Computer

November 12, 2015

Photo credit: fortune.com Early reviews of the Apple iPad Pro laud its screen and pen technology, but lament the Smart Keyboard and lack of app optimization. Apple is now accepting orders for the iPad Pro online, and the tablet is […]

November 11, 2015

Olivier Boireau, CEO of Design SHIFT, stopped by InformationWeek’s San Francisco office last week to demonstrate ORWL (pronounced Orwell), a small, tamper-resistant computer scheduled to ship around May 2016. He visited in advance of a presentation at Black Hat Europe […]

October 29, 2015

Microsoft’s Surface tablets are bucking overall market trends by meeting enterprise needs, even as Apple iPad and Google Android-based tablets continue to fight for market share. Here’s why CIOs and other IT leaders are embracing the Microsoft mobile devices. Microsoft […]

October 23, 2015

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 is an improvement upon Surface Pro 3, reviewers claim, but still not a laptop replacement. Microsoft has built its Surface portfolio on the idea its hybrid device can serve as a laptop replacement for mobile professionals. […]

October 20, 2015

Few laptops manage to turn heads like Lenovo’s Yoga 3 Pro did when it landed back in January. Once your eyes clocked its six watchband-styled hinges, literally crafted from hundreds upon hundreds of pieces of metal, you knew that Lenovo […]

October 9, 2015

Shipments of personal computers fell nearly 11 percent last quarter, to the shock of almost no one. Sales have been declining for so long — 14 consecutive quarters — that it is becoming harder to remember a time when PCs […]

September 29, 2015

At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer named Douglas Engelbart introduced the electronics industry to the remarkably simple but groundbreaking concept of “scaling.” […]

September 22, 2015

Samsung unveiled its 950 Pro solid state drive in Seoul, Korea at the company’s annual SSD Global Summit. The 950 Pro drive utilizes a slim M.2 form factor for portability and energy efficiency, designed for notebooks and mobile workstations. Samsung […]

September 8, 2015

Corning’s USB 3.Optical cable replaces copper with fiber optic filament for faster sustained data transfer over much longer distances than standard USB 3.0 cables, but that speed comes with a few caveats. It’s not often I’m sold on a computer […]

August 19, 2015

As anticipated, Parallels on Wednesday released Parallels Desktop 11, the latest version of its visualization software that comes with a slew of improvements, the most notable being support for Microsoft Windows 10 and major features like the Cortana virtual assistant. […]

July 31, 2015

The Obama administration is preparing for life after Moore’s Law, and has officially set a government-wide goal of creating an exascale computing system that would have about 100 times the performance of current 10 petaflop systems. No country has yet […]

July 10, 2015

Worldwide PC shipments saw their sharpest decline in nearly two years in the second quarter of 2015, dealing continued damage to retailers and makers of computers, chips and PC software. Shipments fell 9.5 percent, year on year, to 68.4 million […]

July 9, 2015

  Logitech International is rebooting its corporate identity as the company moves away from a reliance on computer peripherals to focus on products that piggyback on mobile computing popularized by Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Its aim: appeal to […]

July 8, 2015

Earlier this year the BBC announced that it planned to give one million students across the UK a programmable microcomputer, called the BBC Micro Bit, to help them learn the basics of coding. Now four months later, the design of […]

June 23, 2015

For better or worse, the world has two new Chrome-based desktops. Acer has finally unveiled the Chromebase DC221HQ all-in-one desktops it first teased back in April. The new desktop lineup will feature two 21.5-inch computers, one touch-enabled and one with […]

June 23, 2015

IBM today announced that it is the first company to resell Docker Trusted Registry, a piece of software for on-premises data centers from hot enterprise startup Docker. Docker itself announced today the availability of Docker Truster Registry version 1.1 at […]

June 8, 2015

With new smartphones being released every year and fast-fashion cheap enough that it doesn’t wholly matter if you wear it only once, today’s shoppers have gotten pretty used to replacement rather than restoration. But the ECommerce repair industry is booming, […]

May 20, 2015

Apple today refreshed the 15-in. MacBook Pro, adding its new Force Touch trackpad to the laptop to match the move made in March on the smaller 13-in. model. Prices for the 15-in. MacBook Pro remained unchanged: $1,999 for the configuration […]

May 4, 2015

Dell’s updated wireless dock, when paired with new Latitude laptops with WiGig chips, is a step towards reducing reliance on cables and ports in PCs. The PC maker on Thursday starting shipping the Dell Wireless Dock, which removes the need […]

May 4, 2015

Among the advances you’ll find in this year’s crop of notebook computers are: Fast-charging battery systems; ultra-thin, ultra-light form factors; new interfaces; and hybrid devices that transform easily between tablet and laptop. Whether you’re in need of an upgrade, or […]