Taiwanese PC giant Acer looks to be struggling in the notebook market at the minute with reports online that include job losses in China and sales falls of 10%. Reports on Taiwanese news site Digitimes.com report on March 25 that Acer’s China operation would see 100 jobs or 10% of its workforce cut. The job [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Google is probably the one brand Apple is keeping more than just a weather-eye on at the moment. Despite basking in the glory of its latest iPad release, is it possible the iconic brand is just keeping the home fires burning long enough to make Google cosy in the top chair? Google’s meteoric rise in [...]
It”s shiny, new and comes out in Australia and 24 other countries today. But if you’re planning on being one of the comparative few who’ll get one today, you might be asking yourself “will I need to charge the battery first?” Generally, the answer depends on who you talk to. Most devices are shipped with [...]
The neverending story between AMD and Nvidia took another turn today with ASUS’ release of Nvidia’s latest dual-core graphics card. The new ASUS GTX 590 features twin GF110 GPUs running at a core clock speed of 612MHz with 3GB of GDDR5 graphics memory. ASUS also includes its own Voltage Tweak overvolting tool to push the [...]
Smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) has moved to plug up the gap in PlayBook’s application roster by bringing Android to its iPad tablet rival. The company announced this morning that it will be providing its upcoming Tablet devices with what it calls “app players”, in effect, run-time environments that enable the PlayBook to run [...]