Thecus is doing something that is long overdue, going to a common platform for their NAS boxes, simplifying a lot of software and management issues.
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IF YOUR COMPANY invented the shoebox PC and made it famous, at a trade show, you stick with what you know, and what you are known for. At CES, shuttle showed off a lot of variants of their Shuttle box, …
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SUPERTALENT WAS SHOWING off a bunch of new products at CES, some of which are on the market, others not. The lineup had something for everyone, from sub-$20 USB3 drives to high end RAID cards. The first one we saw …
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ACER IS JUMPING back into the server market in a big way with the launch of six separate lines of products and a comprehensive support network. This is not just a simple launch, Acer is taking the server market very seriously, intending to mirror their success in laptops and desktops.
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APPLE HAS A business model for the iPad as lucrative as printers with abusively priced toner, something that you can only do with absolute control.Their 30% “tax” on apps actually makes sense, at least for Apple, but will it spread to their other products over the long term?
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LUCIDLOGIX HAS STARTED to ship its Virtu GPU virtualization software to motherboard partners that will enable automatic switching between the onboard graphics in Intel’s Sandy Bridge sorry, second generation Core processors and a discrete graphics card. Despite it having been nearly two months since the initial announcements, thanks to a little SATA bug, it seems like LucidLogix didn’t need to rush out its software, as currently there’s something of a shortage on suitable motherboards in the shops.
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SEMIACCURATE’S MOLES TOLD us the dirty little secret of Windows Phone 7, no one pays for it. Yes, to compete with Google’s price for Android, free, MS is charging the same price, just not directly.
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THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future.
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TODAY AT THE Mobile World Congress, Marvell announced that it has followed Intel into the world of software, although this is a very different move than those of Intel in the past. Marvell has purchased a company called Kinoma Inc which has developed what is something we have quite hard to put a name to, but it’s sort of apps inside an app with a custom UI.
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IF NOKIA’S CURRENT stock price is anything to go by, its move to sign up for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system doesn’t appear to have gone down well with its investors, as Nokia’s stock price has tanked almost 14 percent.
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DELL HAS REFRESHED 24 computers in it’s Latitude, Precision, and Optiplex lines, adding Sandy Bridge CPUs, a bunch of new features, a new look, and a lot of subtleties. The only real question remaining is when they will ship, but that isn’t really in Dell’s hands now.
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THERE’S NO SECRET that Nokia hasn’t been doing as well over the past couple of years as it has in the past and according to research by IDC the company has gone from 38.6 percent market share in Q4 2009 to a mere 28 percent in Q4 2010, that’s a 10.6 percent decline. At the same time Android has grown to become one of the most popular smartphone platforms alongside Apple’s iOS while Nokia’s Symbian platform has dwindled in popularity.
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TOSHIBA IS DOING something unusual with their laptops, branching out into far more niche-y product lines. They also showed off a bunch of glasses-free 3D TVs at CES as well, although these were far from impressive.
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THE ACT MIGHT have made headlines for different reasons, but last week, voluntarily destroyed their one valuable asset. It was a subtle thing, and no one seemed to notice, but could it be the reason that Eric Schmidt left?
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MICROSOFTS INTERNET EXPLORER web browser have been losing a lot of ground to its competitors for quite some time now, but IE9 has gained some favourable press and it seems like Microsoft is willing to add some features to make its browser more appealing. According to an MSDN blog post Microsoft has released details about future video support in IE9 and it might very well be the browser with the widest native video support when it goes out of beta.
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