In early February 2016, a study of financing deals reported by The Wall Street Journal found that investors are increasingly protecting themselves from IPOs that don’t perform as expected. This fallout is a continuation of the demise of the so-called “unicorn,” a tech startup with a pre-IPO valuation of over one billion dollars. As these companies […]
Dell launched its Venue 8 Pro 5000 Windows tablet back in 2014 when Microsoft was making a big push to get its OS into low-cost mobile devices. It was priced from $249.99, with specs that matched its modest price point. The company gave its bigger sibling, the Venue 10 Pro, a performance bump last fall, […]
Something of a curiosity when they launched, Chromebooks have eventually settled in as the leading computer for schools, recently outpacing Apple and Microsoft’s efforts to keep the market under wraps. HP is tapping into that trend with its latest laptop running Google’s Chrome OS, which is designed to deal with the rough-and-tumble conditions of the […]
Chromebooks have disrupted the education market, recently shooting past stalwarts like Apple devices and Windows PCs as classroom favorites. But with computer sales continue to drift down, it’s an important market continue to invest in technology, so Microsoft has paid more attention as it rolled out Windows 10. Acer’s recently announced TravelMate B117 is an […]
Flash memory has enjoyed a great run. Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix and Toshiba (SanDisk) are all manufacturing 15nm or 16nm chips that squeeze 16GB into an area about one-third the size of a penny. As costs have come down, these flash chips found their way into everything smartphones to laptop solid-state drives to servers and […]
As Oculus VR’s Rift virtual reality headset creeps ever closer to market — the first units are expected to ship at the end of March — the Facebook-owned company is working to make sure there’s an ecosystem available for buyers to actually do something (well “virtually” do something) with the Rift once it’s purchased. The […]
As Chromebooks make bigger and bigger inroads into the education market, manufacturers have figured out that they need to make their systems a little tougher, as kids aren’t exactly delicate with their tech toys. The result are education Chromebooks of varying degrees of ruggedness, from “semi-rugged” models from Acer to fully ruggedized notebooks that meet […]
full coverage Mobile World Congress 2016 As always, the Barcelona-based technology show is a launch platform for a host of new mobile devices. Wireless carrier Alcatel may not have the brand name appeal of an HP or Lenovo, but it hoped to make a splash at this week’s Mobile World Congress just like those better-known […]
As it does every year, the recent Mobile World Congress included some big phone announcements. The Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG G5 both look like strong updates, and they are among a long list of new phones that will be using brawny processors such as Samsung’s Exynos 8890 and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820. But what struck […]
Mobile world congress 2016 While the Ultrabook brand never took off as Intel may have hoped, the specs for super-thin and svelte laptops haven’t completely disappeared. Samsung is still a notable adherent to the concept, as its latest Notebook 9 lineup showed when it was first introduced at this year’s CES. At that time, Samsung […]