Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 19 at 2:32 pm PT
Intel credited efficiency with keeping gross margins high and said it’s well-positioned in the markets for tablets and phones.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 19 at 1:20 pm PT
Even with hard drives in short supply, killing demand for PCs and servers, chipmaker Intel manages to beat Wall Street expectations.
Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 17 at 3:12 pm PT
Women spend more than men on consumer electronics. And men spend more than women on consumer electronics. Confused yet? Here’s a different way of looking at it.
One area of literacy that’s changing is the order in which things are presented — it isn’t linear, it’s organised spatially, and often some meaning is carried in the design, layout, images, sounds, movement, subtle changes in colour in a game — it’s all part of what literacy is in today’s world. These are fundamental changes to operational literacy, the biggest since the printing press.
– Dr. Rosie Flewitt of the Educational Dialogue Research Unit at the Open University, in conversation with Stewart Mitchell of PCPro about how keeping computers from children at an early age may deprive them of modern communication skills
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 16, 2011 at 9:11 am PT
Three weeks after deciding to keep its PC business, Hewlett-Packard offers up its first Ultrabook.
Someone screwed up how computers work, and I blame it on Bill Gates. I had one typewriter in 50 years. But I’ve bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that’s why Bill Gates is rich and Underwood is out of business.
— Andy Rooney
Dionne Searcey, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 24, 2011 at 1:03 pm PT
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen wants an IBM 7094. The elusive data-processing system was taken off the market in 1969 after just seven years and hasn’t been widely used since. It’s Ian King’s job to find it.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 20, 2011 at 5:00 am PT
Ever wonder if you should buy a new digital camera or wait for a better one just around the corner? Even worse, did you buy the brand-new HDTV right before 3-D came out?
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 28, 2011 at 8:59 pm PT
Seattle-based PopCap
has commissioned a study that doesn’t necessarily support the bulk of its business to date — making games for consoles and computers. The
pre-IPO casual-game maker of Bejeweled said the survey, conducted by Information Solutions Group, found that among mobile phone gamers in the U.S. and UK, 44 percent say the phone is the primary gaming device of choice, leapfrogging video game consoles (21 percent) and personal computers (30 percent) since a similar survey was last conducted in 2009.
