Jan 22, 2013
Canalys’ latest forecasts paint a bleak picture of the state of the industry for the majority of PC hardware vendors. Combined shipments of desktops, netbooks and notebooks showed a year-on-year decline of around 10% in the fourth quarter of 2012, as consumers...
Jan 21, 2013
Intel’s introduction of a new Atom processor platform designed to target the fast-growing market for low-end smartphones in emerging economies represents a shrewd strategy that could allow the company to expand its currently minimal market share in the industry. This...
Jan 18, 2013
Cloud computing will continue to grow rapidly in 2013, according to a new Ovum report. In the “2013 Trends to Watch: Cloud Computing” report, Ovum Software senior analyst Laurent Lachal notes: “Cloud computing promises to tackles two hitherto irreconcilable IT...
Jan 17, 2013
There will be a total of almost 70-million smart wearable devices sold in 2017, including smart glasses, health and fitness devices along with enterprise wearables, compared to almost 15-million in 2013. This is according to new report from Juniper Research, which...
Jan 16, 2013
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers’ approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be...
Jan 15, 2013
Based on an analysis of more than half a million public posts on message boards, blogs, social media sites and news sources, IBM predicts that “steampunk”, a sub-genre inspired by the clothing, technology and social mores of Victorian society, will be a...
