Fourteen percent of U.S. online customers plan to buy a tablet computer within the next 12 months according to a new study from leading market research company Forrester Research. The 14 percent was ahead of the 13 percent planning to buy a laptop, 11 percent planning to buy an eBook reader, 8 percent planning to [...]
Archive for August, 2010
30 Aug
The computer helper: IE troubles
Love it or hate it, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE), by most estimates, still commands the lion’s share of the browser market. That means a lot of people spend a lot of their day using the browser, and a lot of people encounter problems they’d like to solve. Here are a few. Q: Internet Explorer opens [...]
30 Aug
KT to Sell Tablet PC Using Google Software Next Month
KT Corp. said it will introduce a tablet computer powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system in South Korea on Sept. 10, before Apple Inc.’s iPad device goes on sale in the country. KT, South Korea’s largest provider of phone and Internet services, aims to sell 100,000 of the handheld computer by year- end, Kim [...]
26 Aug
Google to allow phone calls from Gmail
New York: Google Inc said users of Gmail will now be able to call telephones directly from their email, putting it in direct competition with Web calling service Skype and more traditional operators such as AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications. While Google had already offered computser-to-computer voice and video chat services, it said that starting [...]
26 Aug
Are Orkut updates harbingers of Google’s social strategy?
Remember Orkut? Yeah, you’re not alone if you said no. Orkut was Google’s first foray into social networking and, while it never took off in the States, it did in some countries (in particular, India). And, surprise, surprise, even India has chosen Facebook over Orkut. However, Google made some updates to Orkut this week, suggesting [...]
26 Aug
Cracks in software surge: IBM
SAN FRANCISCO — IBM on Wednesday reported that the number of discovered cracks that hackers could exploit in computer software surged in the first half of the year. The number of new “vulnerabilities” documented by an X-Force Research and Development team at IBM increased 36 percent to 4,396 from the same period last year and [...]
23 Aug
Intel has high hopes for McAfee purchase
Paul Otellini, Chief Executive Officer of Intel, is banking on the possibility that customers will pay to guard against possible attacks that have yet to materialize with his company’s $7.68 billion acquisition of security software maker McAfee. Otellini announced Intel’s largest-ever takeover. With the purchase, the world’s largest computer chip maker aims to add McAfee’s [...]
23 Aug
McAfee finance boss to get windfall after Intel takeover
NEW McAfee chief financial officer Jonathan Chadwick has seen stock options he was awarded just two weeks ago jump in value by more than $4m (£2.6m) following the firm’s takeover by Intel. Chadwick was given 97,000 performance-related stock options and 125,000 restricted stock options on 6 August as part of a lucrative compensation package.
23 Aug
Best buys: computer software
Any new computer is useless without decent software. Below are the best purchases to load onto your brand new machine. Operating systems Windows 7 Thankfully, Microsoft abandoned Windows Vista and replaced it with the far superior Windows 7. Boasting much of the shininess of Mac OSX, Windows 7 is stable and quick, and it does [...]
20 Aug
Dell profit climbs on surging business computer sales
SAN FRANCISCO — Dell on Thursday reported that its second-quarter profit climbed to 545 million dollars on surging demand for computer hardware. The Texas-based computer company earned 28 cents per share in the quarter that ended July 30, a jump of nearly 16 percent from the same period a year earlier.
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