Lenovo Adds To IFA Offerings

Doug Olenick On Aug 31 2012 - 8:43am

Berlin – Lenovo today bolstered its Ultrabook, mainstream laptops and all-in-one PC lines at IFA, here.

The U510 Ultrabook, shipping in September with a $679 starting price, features a 15-inch display, is 21mm thick and weighs just less than 5 pounds. It has a 1TB HDD with an optional 32GB of SSD cache to improve performance. It can take up to a third-generation Intel Core i7 processor and has an optical drive bay for either a DVD or Blu-ray drive.

In Lenovo’s Y, or performance, laptop series is the IdeaPad 14-inch Y400 and 15-inch Y500.

 

Dell’s Q2 Revenue, Earnings Drop

TWICE Staff On Aug 22 2012 - 11:04am

Round Rock, Texas - Dell cited falling PC sales for its lower second quarter revenue and earnings.

The PC maker generated $14.5 billion in revenue for the quarter ended Aug. 3 with a GAAP net income of $732 million. Revenue and net income was down 8 percent and 18 percent, respectively compared to the same period last year.

Tablets On School Shopping Lists

Doug Olenick On Aug 21 2012 - 10:22am

San Francisco – A survey by the online shopping aggregation site TechBargains.com has found that 25 percent of back-to-school shoppers intend to buy a tablet this year.

Apple’s iPad was the favorite choice, with 37 percent of the respondents saying they would buy one, compared with 22 percent interested in a Google Nexus and 14 percent in the Kindle Fire. About 14 percent of these people indicated that the tablet would become their primary computing device, replacing a desktop or laptop.

Zyxel Launches New Wireless Extender

On Aug 9 2012 - 10:16am

Anaheim, Calif. — Zyxel announced its WRE2205 802.11n wireless range extender for $59.99. 

This device plugs into any electrical outlet to extend a network's wireless signal range throughout the home and the backyard. It provides transfer rates of up to 300Mbps and is backward compatible with 802.11b/g as well. It is now shipping.

Ultrabooks Are Still Thin, But Becoming Huge

By Doug Olenick On Jun 18 2012 - 4:01am

NEW YORK – When it comes to Ultrabooks, thin is still in, but in every other aspect these ultraportable laptops are getting huge.

With the one-year anniversary of the Ultrabook concept announcement by Intel having just passed, vendors are starting to differentiate their models with larger displays, new screen aspect ratios, increased storage capacity and new target customers.

These changes came to light during the spring rollout of all the back-to-school mobile products offered up by Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and others.

Ultrabooks Take On New Dimensions

By Doug Olenick On Jun 18 2012 - 4:01am

NEW YORK – The second wave of Ultrabooks now hitting the market are beginning to reflect a higher level of differentiation than the initial models that hit retail last fall.

In addition, new players are taking the field.

Outside The Ultrabook

By Doug Olenick On Jun 18 2012 - 4:01am

NEW YORK – Intel may have created the Ultrabook category, but AMD is starting to fight back with the introduction last month of its Trinity Accelerated Processing Unit.

Leslie Sobon, AMD’s product platform marketing VP, said Trinity is intended for use in ultrathin laptop designs, but unlike Intel, AMD has not issued a set of specification for vendors to follow to develop such products. Instead the chip maker is allowing computer vendors to take any liberties they wish to create an ultrathin laptop.

Seagate Storage Backs Up Facebook Photos

By Doug Olenick On Jun 18 2012 - 4:01am

CUPERTINO, CALIF. – Seagate is continuing its fight to make consumer data backup simple and convenient with the release of its Backup Plus storage devices.

The Backup Plus hard drives, for Mac and Windows, utilize the company’s Dashboard software to enable one-click local backup. In addition, the portable and desktop external storage drives will download and store images from Facebook and Flickr.

T-Mobile Readies Brand-Relaunch Ad Campaign

By Joseph Palenchar On Apr 23 2012 - 4:01am

BELLEVUE, WASH. – T-Mobile is launching the first in a new series of ads that will air over the next few months leading up to the carrier’s brand relaunch in the fall.

Toshiba, Samsung Roll Out Android Wi-Fi Tablets

By Doug Olenick On Apr 23 2012 - 4:01am

NEW YORK – Toshiba rolled out three new tablets, including the industry’s first 13.3-inch tablet, while Samsung Mobile launched two Galaxy Tab 2 tablets and two Galaxy Player portable media players (PMP).

All are Android-based devices incorporating Wi-Fi but no cellular.

With the launch of its three tablets, Toshiba is retiring the Thrive sub-brand in favor of the Excite sub-brand.