A 12-inch MacBook Air is in production for the second quarter of this year, reports the Wall Street Journal. That leads to a question about Apple’s “Spring Forward” press event this coming Monday: Will… Read more »
Acer was the first company to launch a Chromebook with fifth-generation Intel chip and there’s no signs of the company slowing down. It released… Read more »
The Internet of Things is a remarkably fragmented world where no single operating system or technology will dominate for the foreseeable future. So big opportunities exist for developers that can help… Read more »
Does the internet of things need an entirely different style of operating system? ARM thinks so. It upgraded mbed to bridge full-featured OSes and the real-time OSes for the embedded market. Read more »
Pocket Avatars is a new messaging app from Intel that uses sophisticated face-tracking technology to turn users’ faces into goofy cartoons. Read more »
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Growth for IT spending in 2014 will be an improvement from last year: up 4.9 percent. Smartphones and tablets will continue to be the main drivers. Read more »
The shift from fixed to mobile platforms has the potential to disrupt the TV advertising economy by enabling new ways to aggregate, measure and engage with audiences beyond the exclusive control… Read more »
Looks like there won’t be any big new challengers for iOS and Android this year, after Japan’s NTT DoCoMo shelved plans for a Tizen launch and Canonical conceded that no big… Read more »
Samsung has been enormously successful in churning out smartphones and tablets running the dominant Android platform. But the company is also investing heavily in Tizen, a Linux-based operating system that could… Read more »