Latest study claims that around 2.1 million Chromebooks shipped in 2013 with nearly 89 percent of total shipments reaching North America. ABI Research, a market intelligence firm, on Tuesday published its research…
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USB cable gets reversible connector
The USB cable, which was always required to be plugged in the right way, will be receiving a welcome upgrade in the form of a reversible connector allowing users will plug it…
Amazon rolls out streaming device Fire TV in US
Amazon launched a new streaming and video game device on Wednesday to compete with Google, Apple and Roku. The device costs $99 and is available now in the US. The new device,…
Gartner: Global IT spending to increase by up to 3.2% to reach $3.8 trillion
Latest report predicts worldwide IT spending to surge by over 3 percent, accounting for more than $3.8 trillion in 2014 compared to last year’s $3.65 trillion. According to the report from Gartner…
Windows Phone 8.1 developer preview to be released earlier than expected
One of the biggest expectations from BUILD 2014 is the announcement of Windows Phone 8.1 and according to latest reports developers will getting their hands on the preview version as early as…
HP shipped 7 million notebooks in Q1 this year
Latest report claims Hewlett-Packard (HP) to have made around seven million notebook sales in the first quarter of 2014. According to the report from DigiTimes, unnamed sources from the upstream supply chain…
Tech giants team up to form Industrial Internet Consortium dedicated to ‘Internet of Things’
AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel have all teamed up to form the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), a nonprofit organisation dedicated to the Internet of Things, to ‘improve the integration of the…
Western Digital’s My Cloud storage solution lands in India
Storage Solution vendor Western Digital on Thursday released My Cloud, a series of personal cloud storage solutions, in India. WD’s personal cloud solutions product dubbed ‘My Cloud’ will enable users to access,…
Lenovo recalls ThinkPad batteries citing fire hazard risk
Lenovo has recalled battery packs for a number of its ThinkPad laptops after discovering a fire hazard risk. The company initiated the battery recall on Thursday following two reports of battery packs…
Google I/O 2014 tickets to be sold via lottery system
Google announced its plans of going for a random a ‘lottery registration’ system this time to select the attendees for the 2014 Google I/O developer conference. Until now tickets for the developer…
Microsoft to launch new video ad service to rival YouTube in the UK
Microsoft is prepping for a launch of its new video advertising service in the UK to rival Google’s YouTube, which commands a huge share in the segment. The process is completely automated…
Microsoft cleared of Google Scroogle ad controversy
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has cleared Microsoft of any wrongdoing over controversial Scroogled advertisement complaints that claimed Microsoft to be hypocritical and misleading. “Because the ad made clear that the privacy…
BT emerges as worst broadband provider in the UK
BT has snatched away the crown of most complained about broadband provider of the UK in the last quarter of 2013 from Everything Everywhere – the first time since Ofcom started publishing…
ISPs should give customers what they promise says consumer group Which?
After a new research report revealed that UK broadband service providers are not delivering broadband speeds and connection quality they promise their customers while signing up for the service, the consumer group…
Facebook’s ‘Hack’ programming language allows for faster, bug-free coding
Facebook has rolled out a new programming language called Hack, an open-source language for programmers, which it claims will speed up programming while also making it easier to catch errors in code…