Category: Computer Hardware

Windows 8 tablet PC makers: We can’t compete with the iPad’s price – ExtremeTech

If reports from Taiwan are to be believed, hardware manufacturers are struggling to create Windows 8 on ARM (Windows RT) devices that are competitively priced against Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The reason? According to Digitimes, OEMs have to pay Microsoft $90-100 for a Windows 8 license. While that $90-100 figure sounds a little ...Read More

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Android mini computer selling for just US$74 – CNET

This mini computer comes with a single-core ARM chip with 512MB of RAM. (Credit: CNX Software) Enthusiasts of embedded computing seem to be spoilt for choices nowadays. A Chinese-made computer, that’s slightly larger than a typical thumbdrive, can now be bought online for just US$74. The fee includes free shipping to a number of Asian ...Read More

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Former hospital worker gets prison for computer theft – Asheville Citizen-Times

ASHEVILLE — A former Pardee Memorial Hospital worker has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing and selling computer network equipment. Joel Kimble, 39, who worked as the Hendersonville hospital’s network administrator from March 2005 to September 2008, also was ordered to serve three years of probation and pay $264,000 in restitution. The ...Read More

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AMD mobile Trinity APUs released – MyBroadband

Derrick Cramer Derrick joined MyBroadband in 2011 as a junior journalist with a strong background in computer hardware and gaming – he lives for that new motherboard… AMD has released the Trinity Accelerated Processor Units for laptops and Ultrabooks AMD have launched their second generation of accelerated processing units (APUs) for mobile products, codenamed “Trinity”. ...Read More

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Managed Instance from Navigis Helps PointManagement Automate Mission-Critical … – Virtual-Strategy Magazine

Custom application built on ServiceNow cloud-based ITSM platform tracks inventory, shipping, receiving and service tickets for point-of-transaction hardware. Lone Tree, CO (PRWEB) May 16, 2012 Navigis, a leading global integrator of ITSM software and services and the oldest and largest ServiceNow partner, today announced the successful implementation of a custom application for PointManagement LLC, a ...Read More

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Microsoft to charge customers $99 to remove OEM ‘crapware’ – ZDNet (blog)

Summary: So, the OEMs make money from installing crapware onto PCs, and now Microsoft is making money removing it. Makes you realize why more and more people are buying Apple hardware. Will people be willing to pay Microsoft to remove the crapware that the OEMs install on new PCs? Microsoft thinks they will. For around ...Read More

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Managed Instance from Navigis Helps PointManagement Automate Mission-Critical … – PR Web (press release)

Lone Tree, CO (PRWEB) May 16, 2012 Navigis, a leading global integrator of ITSM software and services and the oldest and largest ServiceNow partner, today announced the successful implementation of a custom application for PointManagement LLC, a leading provider of computer hardware maintenance services. The solution was developed for PointManagement’s signature service offering, PointMan Exchange ...Read More

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Australian Businesses To Focus On Mobile Technology And Computer Hardware Over … – CFO World

Media releases are provided as is and have not been edited or checked for accuracy. Any queries should be directed to the company issuing the release. Sage Business Index also finds acceptance of social networking as a credible business channel but the Cloud remains an enigma Mobile technology and devices and computer hardware such as ...Read More

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Open-Source Touch Table Puts the World at Your Fingertips – PCWorld

By Kevin Riggle, PCWorld    May 15, 2012 10:13 AM [Credit: Playsurface on Kickstarter]Table computers like the Merel mTouch and the Samsung SUR40 running Microsoft’s Surface software (nee PlayTable nee Project Milan nee Microsoft Table) have been a thing for a while now. The basic idea is very simple, just the iPad writ large–a giant, ...Read More

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Computer Crashes and Lost Data: Avoid the Next Mishap – Sci-Tech Today

Most computer users live in fear of a crashed computer and lost data, or are frustrated by a computer that seems to take hours to perform the simplest task. The trick is to learn from these problems and either fix the computer before the worst happens, or at least make sure it never happens again. ...Read More

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