From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices doesn’t want its chips in low-priced tablets, and is eager to avoid a battle with Intel or ARM, whose chips have driven tablet prices down to under $100.
Growth in the tablet market is driven by low-end devices and Android, but AMD’s tablet strategy is driven...
From CNET: Apple is unlikely to show any sales growth when it reports second-quarter results on Wednesday. At least, that's the take from a collection of 37 different analysts.
Polling analysts for their predictions on Apple's second fiscal quarter, which ended in March, Fortune found an average...
From DailyTech: Excluding its soon-to-be-departed money-losing smartphone brand -- Motorola Mobility -- Google Inc. (GOOG) posted a net profit of $3.45B USD (GAAP), up from $3.35B USD in Q1 2013. For the quarter Google pulled in revenue of $15.42B USD -- roughly $100M USD less than the $15.54 that...
Are numbers important? The way I see it, sometimes, you will just have to go and ask her for it assertively. As Wayne Gretzky once said, "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take." No wait... that is not the number I am talking about. So let's start this paragraph over again. Are numbers important? Of course they are. At the same time, we must understand numbers do not necessarily tell the whole story. Remember when people thought...
From InfoWorld: Falling hardware sales and the cost of layoffs hit IBM's profit hard in the first quarter, sending it down 21 percent from a year earlier. Sales also fell, sliding 4 percent from last year's first quarter to $22.5 billion.
The quarterly results include an $870 million write-off for...
From PC World: Sales of Sony’s PlayStation 4 platform have surpassed 7 million units worldwide but supply problems are continuing, the electronics giant said.
Now available in 72 countries and regions, the platform had notched the milestone as of April 6, Sony Computer Entertainment said Thursday...
From CNET: Nokia has suspended sales of the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet over fears that the charger could give you an electric shock.
Anyone with a Lumia 2520 in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Russia, Switzerland and the UK is "strongly advised to suspend use of the AC-300 charger until further...
From DailyTech: Bitcoin robber baron Mark Marie "MagicalTux" Robert Karpelès has reportedly "lawyered up" according to a report by Reuters. Mr. Karpelès needs all the legal advice he can get as he is currently under investigation in the U.S. by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the...
From InfoWorld: Intel shipped 5 million processors for tablets in the first quarter, but profits fell as PC sales remained weak.
Net income for the quarter ended March 29 was $1.9 billion, down 5 percent from a year ago, Intel said on Tuesday. Revenue increased 1 percent to $12.8 billion.
The...
From PC World: Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has abandoned its bid for revival and filed for liquidation with a Japanese court, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest trading place for the digital currency, collapsed in February with liabilities of ¥6.5...
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