Hardware

More Anti-Trust Woes Ahead For Apple? – TechCrunch

Here is what the figures say about the Cupertino company’s market share: These numbers certainly indicate that Apple has built an incredibly strong experience linking the hardware it sells (iPhones, iPads, Macs) to valuable content.

The Interwoven Histories of Apple and RIM – Law.com

Apple wouldn’t cater to the generic PC consumer market because that went against the grain of its corporate ethos, an integrative philosophy of quality manufacture that prized a functional harmony in hardware and software development that …

Opera 12 Will Launch with Hardware Acceleration Disabled by Default – Softpedia

That meant rewriting a lot of code, but it would be worth it in the end. Opera is almost done, it can offer hardware acceleration on all supported platforms, Windows, Linux Mac OS X, which is not something that other … Continue reading

Nyan Cat Gets a Soundtrack Album [REVIEW] – YAHOO!

Salchert produced the music in two weeks using Apple’s Logic Studio instruments and retro 8-bit samples. “I really wanted to stay true to the hardware limitations composers faced when composing 8-bit tracks, both in terms of what waveforms could be … Continue reading

Charlie Mac – Mashable.com

The MacBook is a brand of Macintosh notebook computers manufactured by Apple Inc. from 2006 to 2010. It replaced the iBook and 12-inch PowerBook series of notebooks as a part of the Apple–Intel transition. Positioned as the low end of … Continue reading

Apple, Google, Intel fail to end poaching lawsuit – China Post

Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp. and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally conspired not to poach each other’s employees. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California … Continue reading

Smartphone Graphics to Soon Surpass Xbox 360? [VIDEO] – YAHOO!

Just wait until about 2014 when graphics hardware giant NVIDIA estimates that smartphone graphics … soon host the same type of graphics processing unit (GPU) as the Xbox 360. Apple’s new iPad, with its stunning Retina display, makes games such … Continue reading

On the Call: Intel CEO Otellini talks tablets – Yahoo Finance

That’s happening while it faces a challenge from another kind of thin, light computer: the tablet, exemplified by Apple’s iPad, which doesn’t use Intel chips. On a conference call Tuesday, an analyst asked Intel CEO Paul Otellini about …

Intel 1Q earnings fall 13 percent, revenue steady – Yahoo Finance

Intel is also going to ramp up its largest marketing campaign in many years, to support “ultrabooks,” which are thin, light laptops in the vein of Apple’s Macbook Air. All the large PC makers have responded to Intel’s promptings to … Continue reading

Gabe Newell: No One At Valve Met with Tim Cook Last Week – Toms Hardware

… are seemingly a good pair if they get all their ducks lined up in a row correctly which is why an Apple iTV packed with Valve’s gaming hardware doesn’t seem all that far-fetched,” our own Kevin Parrish wrote earlier … Continue reading