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Microsoft’s Surface Tablet May Make Business Difficult For Other Hardware Vendors

Microsoft’s Surface Tablet May Make Business Difficult For Other Hardware Vendors

For long, Microsoft has mostly been a software company (except for its XBox venture), creating new and better software and shipping it out to hardware vendors for use. However, given Apple’s immense success, it had become evident that a hardware-plus-software company, with the tight integration of the two, would sell better in today’s tech world. The examples in this case are iPhone and iPad. And, the Microsoft’s new venture, the Surface tablet, casts some serious doubts within industry analysts that the company is out to follow Apple’s business model.

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Mozilla May Finally Crack The HTML5 Mobile Hardware Integration Riddle

Mozilla May Finally Crack The HTML5 Mobile Hardware Integration Riddle

HTML5 development has hit stumbling block in that so far, HTML5 developers have been unable to integrate a mobile browser to the hardware of a mobile device. If this issue is resolved, it can open up a whole world of possibilities for HTML5 developers as well as for the mobile devices. And it would now seem that Mozilla is on the verge of solving this riddle.

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Former Microsoft Executive Says Zune Hardware Was A Mistake

Former Microsoft Executive Says Zune Hardware Was A Mistake

Back in 2006, Microsoft launched a Zune hardware, which was basically a portable media player that was supposed to compete with Apple’s iPod, which by then was a huge hit with the world. Naturally, the music industry didn’t pay much heed to Microsoft’s Zune and in the long run, it turned out to be a failure. Now, Robbie Bach, a former executive at Microsoft who was in charge of Zune, admits what a mistake Zune was and how it could have been better.

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Samsung’s Reference Hardware Runs Tizen OS, Features Non-PenTile Super AMOLED Plus Display

Samsung’s Reference Hardware Runs Tizen OS, Features Non-PenTile Super AMOLED Plus Display

Samsung has been slowly giving out the details of its upcoming reference hardware. Earlier, we were being told that was is nearly sure about the device is that it will be running a Linux-based Tizen OS. Now, another report is claiming that the device will have a non-PenTile Super AMOLED HD Plus display.

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Tired Of Rumor? Valve Software Finally Reveals Mystery Hardware Project!

Tired Of Rumor? Valve Software Finally Reveals Mystery Hardware Project!

Valve Software is widely accustomed to public speculation. Unlike many organizations, Valve doesn’t build organizational barriers to its employees by default; it just trusts them and gets out of their way so they can create value. But now, Valve Software has set the world of gaming news abuzz by attempting to hire hardware engineers. Not only that but also Valve developer Michael Abrash has revealed a hardware prototype which is a wearable computer technology.

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Mobile Phone Tracking Now Possible With Cheap Hardware And Open-Source Software

Mobile Phone Tracking Now Possible With Cheap Hardware And Open-Source Software

An excellent research at University of Minnesota has revealed that a mobile phone can be easily tracked by any third party hacker, without the knowledge of the user or the mobile carrier, through a small hacking trick. All it requires is a cheap mobile phone and an open-source software and this enables a hacker to know the location of a mobile user any time. How can this be accomplished is detailed below.

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Apple May Go Back To Nvidia For Mac Pro Hardware

Apple May Go Back To Nvidia For Mac Pro Hardware

Reports are suggesting that Apple may switch, yet again, back to Nvidia for the GPUs of the upcoming Mac Pro hardware update. Another claim that is part of this latest report is that the new Mac Pros will be featuring the much-anticipated Intel Ivy Bridge processor. This processor makes use of Trigate transistor technology and is being hailed as the next big thing from Intel. It boasts the speed of the processor by up to 37 percent and at the same time, consumes much less power.

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Chrome Beta Gets More Hardware Acceleration And JavaScript

Chrome Beta Gets More Hardware Acceleration And JavaScript

Google has been pushing Chrome with better and newer features. In the last beta release, that of Google Chrome 18, we have seen that Chrome’s hardware acceleration now expands even to older computers. Google has introduced a number of changes which will help render and display 3D content, even on older computer. Moreover, Chrome 19 dev has JavaScript enabled, so that’s another piece of great news for Chrome users.

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