For most people, if I were to ask them who their most admired person is, chances are they will reply with a political leader of some sort. What makes a political or world leader great? Obviously, the skill and character of the person is crucial, but it is also a combination of the times and the people under him or her. For me, I have always been a fan of Sir Winston Churchill. His unfading determination, uncompromising character, ability to...
From PC World: Chinese users had to wait for over a year before Amazon.com officially brought its Kindle Fire tablet to the country back in June. But so far, shipments of the products have been very low as competition in the country's tablet sector continues to remain fierce.
In the third quarter...
From X-bit Labs: Although Valve Software has said that its Steam Box-concept personal computers will be available at different price-points from different partners, no well-known PC makers have unveiled one. But it looks like the situation is changing and changing in a good way. iBuyPower, a...
From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading maker of high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, on Wednesday said that on November 25, 2013, it received notices that Hercules Technology Growth Capital took exclusive control of the OCZ's depository accounts in...
From EETimes: Hewlett-Packard will launch a line of 3D printers next year to spark growth. Word of the plan came at the end of a call with financial analysts to discuss marginally upbeat results for the quarter and year.
The computer and printer company aims to release consumer and industrial-grade...
From InfoWorld: BlackBerry is making it easier for Android applications to run on its latest smartphones.
A recent upgrade to its developer tools has reduced the amount of work required to get an Android app working on the BlackBerry 10 operating system, and changes coming in early 2014 will allow...
From DailyTech: Intel's recently released low-power Atom processor Bay Trail platform already offers hardware support for 64-bit addressing, plus on-chip acceleration of certain graphics and cryptography functions in double-precision. Bay Trail based tablets with Google Inc.'s (GOOG) popular...
From X-bit Labs: The first actual specifications and performance estimations regarding next-generation mobile platform code-named Kaveri has leaked onto the Internet. Just as expected, the forthcoming chip from Advanced Micro Devices will bring a lot of innovations to the market. However, it is not...
From EETimes: The dynamics of the solid-state state drive market are shifting, and for Abhi Talwalkar it's been a disappointing shift in 2013.
The chief executive of LSI hoped the market for SSD controllers from Sandforce, a startup he purchased in 2011 for $370 million, would grow as much as 35%...
From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard reported results for the last quarter of its fiscal year on Tuesday, and although sales were down from a year earlier there were some much-needed signs of improvement.
HP's enterprise division, which sells servers, storage and network gear, reported its first sales...
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