News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
While two laptops based on Google's Android operating system made an appearance ahead of the annual Computex exhibition in Taipei, a senior executive at the search engine company declined to discuss what steps the company is taking to adapt the smartphone OS for laptops.
Dan Nysted | Jun 2, 2009
Samsung Electronics became the first major mobile phone maker to launch a smartphone based on Google's Android software.
Dan Nysted | Apr 28, 2009
The success of Intel’s Atom microprocessor, used mainly in netbooks, helped the chip maker gain market share in every quarter of 2008 and could carry the company this year as well.
Dan Nysted | Apr 3, 2009
The first smartphones in Australia and Singapore to be armed with Google’s Android mobile OS and software were unveiled on Thursday.
Dan Nysted | Feb 6, 2009
Intel on Wednesday said it finished development work on manufacturing technology that will allow it to produce chips with circuitry just 32-nanometers in size, a billionth of a metre, by the fourth quarter of next year.
Dan Nysted | Dec 11, 2008
Apple's iPhone 3G passed Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry to take second place in third-quarter global smartphone rankings, according to a report by market researcher Canalys.
Dan Nysted | Nov 10, 2008
Apple’s iPhone 3G and High Tech Computer’s (HTC) Touch Diamond sent Taiwanese smartphone manufacturing soaring in the third quarter, a market researcher said this week.
Dan Nysted | Nov 7, 2008
T-Mobile, Google and High Tech Computer (HTC) unveiled the highly anticipated Android phone in New York on Tuesday, and I got a chance to try out the new handset at HTC's office in Taipei.
Dan Nysted | Sep 25, 2008
The contract price of mainstream DRAM chips has plunged nearly 18 percent in two weeks to reach new record lows, an online clearinghouse for the chips reported Monday.
Dan Nysted | Sep 23, 2008
A few DRAM makers cut production last week, hoping that reducing supply might spur a price recovery, but the action is too little, too late, analysts say.
Dan Nysted | Sep 16, 2008
The new iPhone 3G will be sold by at least two mobile phone companies in Russia, and a third may be added soon.
Dan Nysted | Sep 3, 2008
Asustek Computer plans to launch the Eee Monitor in September, a PC built into a monitor designed to rival Apple's iMac, the company's CEO said today. The new device joins the Taiwanese company's popular Eee family of products, which started with the low-cost mini-laptop, the Eee PC. Asustek has expanded its laptop line to include different operating systems — Linux and Windows XP — as well as configurations and sizes. The company will launch two new Eee PCs at Computex Taipei 2008 on Tuesday, the Eee PC 901, which boasts nearly eight hours of battery life, and the Eee PC 1000, which has a 10-inch screen and regular-sized keyboard.
Dan Nysted | Jun 3, 2008
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
