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Toshiba will ready its tablets late in 2010

Published on: 14th March, 2010

Jeff Barney, Toshiba’s US notebook lead, has said the company would develop its own tablets. He said a line of devices is scheduled for late this year or early in 2011. Details of how the devices would look like were not revealed. Jeff Barney said that Toshiba would have to move very fast to get [...]

Google’s Chrome was the champion browser in February

Published on: 6th March, 2010

The only important web browser to gain market share in February was Google’s Chrome, according to Net Applications. The WebKit browser has gained four tenths last month, reaching 5.61 percent of web use, while all the other significant browsers dropped. There was another drop for Internet Explorer to the lowest level in history, 61.58 percent. [...]

Windows 7 browser ballot will go live this week

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Microsoft has announced that its browser ballot will be launched this week in European versions of Windows. This launch is scheduled for the 1st of March and will be a limited one. The ballot will allow Windows users to choose one of the five most popular web browsers they prefer and want have installed as [...]

ASUS’s T101MT convertible netbook is now official

Published on: 18th February, 2010

ASUS T101MT convertible netbook, spotted, on Christmas Eve, at the FCC, has now gone official, as full specifications are available on ASUS’s website. Information leaked in December is confirmed, as the new netbook has a 1.66Ghz Intel Atom N450 processor and a 10.1-inch LED-backlit multi-input touchscreen, with a resolution of 1024×600. The default OS is [...]

Microsoft to update Windows 7 and close more than 70 activation hacks

Published on: 17th February, 2010

Microsoft has recently revealed a Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7 would be released later this month and would close about 70 activation hacks and therefore prevent hackers from accessing the operating system by fraud. This update would periodically check with a server for vulnerabilities. According to Joe Williams, general manager of the Microsoft [...]

Record revenue for Microsoft after selling 60 million copies of Windows 7

Published on: 9th February, 2010

Microsoft has claimed its best-ever quarter for revenue thanks to Windows 7. The revenue of the company has jumped 14 percent year-over-year to over $19.02 billion as a consequence of the 60 million copies of the new operating system sold and helped Microsoft to come back after three consecutive drops in revenue in 2009. The [...]

Cowon’s W2 MID to sport Windows 7

Published on: 15th January, 2010

Cowon has made its first real entry into the Mobile Internet Device (MID) world with its W2 device and has put up a web page for it. The device would occupy the higher end of the range with its 1.33GHz Atom processor and Windows 7. It would concentrate on style and sport a relatively low-key, [...]

Viliv to present the N5 and the S10 Windows 7-powered notebooks at CES

Published on: 30th December, 2009

Viliv plans to present two new notebooks at CES in January nest year, at the Las Vegas show.
The first device, the N5, is the most advanced of its notebook-style Ultra Mobile Personal Computing, with a very dense 4.8-inch screen with a 1,024×600 resolution and sporting 3G and GPS. The N5 is meant to serve as [...]

Microsoft’s browser ballot to be implemented in March

Published on: 20th December, 2009

Microsoft’s updated proposal regarding a browser ballot within its Windows 7 operating system recently received green light from the European Commission. Referred to as a “choice screen”, the ballot will allow the EU users to make a neutral choice of their browser. When first booting a Windows PC, the users will get an almost neutral [...]

ViewSonic’s 10-inch netbook running Windows 7

Published on: 20th December, 2009

VNB102 ViewBook has opened a new perspective for ViewSonic, the North American company, by its launch. It is a 10.1-inch netbook, which uses a 1024×600 LED-backlit panel and it seems to be one of the few netbooks to be released with Windows 7 Starter Edition.
The netbook comes with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, a 1GB [...]

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