PC sales uncertainty result in supply chain reductions
PC distributors and ODMs are keeping inventories low as a result of falling PC shipments as consumers are turning to smartphones and tablets.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sifts through the marketing hyperbole and casts his critical eye over the latest technological innovations to find out which products make the grade and which don't.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology.
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Could hybrids be the death of tablets?
Are hybrid systems destined to kill off the tablet, or are they just another PC form factor waiting to fail?
Building a sub $300 PC (May 2013 edition)
Sometimes you just want a cheap and cheerful PC to handle some simple tasks. This build – excluding Windows, a display, and peripherals, comes in at under $300.
Android is crushing Apple and Microsoft in the mobile device market
In five and a half years, Android has come from nowhere to crush Apple and Microsoft in the mobile device market. How long until PC OEMs decide to take a gamble on the winning mobile OS and load Android onto PCs?
Korean and US versions of Samsung Galaxy S4 'as different as kimchee and coleslaw': IHS
The Korean version of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 smartphone contains a powerful eight-core processor, while US users have to make do with a quad-core part. Will American owners of the S4 feel short-changed?
UEFI to make its way into mobile and non-PC markets
UEFI — the BIOS replacement that bought the Secure Boot technology to Windows 8 PCs — is set to appear in a wide range of devices, from smartphones to servers.
Microsoft: The Windows 8 learning curve is 'real and needs to be addressed'
With the introduction of Windows 8, Microsoft removed the Start button, the Start menu, and pushed the desktop into the background. Were these changes too much for users who'd spent decades getting used to how Windows worked?
SSDs set to grab over one third of PC storage solutions market by 2017: IHS
By 2017, the total worldwide shipments of solid state drives in PCs is predicted to rise by a factor of seven, increasing from 31 million units in 2012 to 227 million units. Correspondingly, hard disk drives shipments will decline sharply over the same period to 410 million.
Intel finally gets serious about mobile with Silvermont
Silvermont is exciting not because of what Silvermont itself brings to the table, but what it is going to mean for the mobile space over the coming years. Intel will do with Silvermont what it did with Conroe back in 2006, using it as a platform to build upon over the coming years.
Bill Gates: A lot of iPad users are 'frustrated'
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates believes that iPad users are "frustrated". His solution to this frustration is Microsoft's Surface and Surface Pro tablets, which come with a keyboard, and more importantly, the Office suite of applications.