Developer Preview of Ubuntu Touch for Nexus devices out now

22 Feb, 2013, 10:29 am IST Shunal Doke Linux

Owners of Nexus devices can now flash Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview onto their devices, as Canonical today made available the preview ROMs... More

Ubuntu for Tablets coming to Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 this week

20 Feb, 2013, 12:21 pm IST Nishtha Kanal Tablets 1 Comments

Post unveiling Ubuntu for smartphones recently, Canonical has unveiled Ubuntu for tablets, a touch-based interface that can run on screen sizes of anywhere More

CES 2013: ST-Ericsson unveils NovaThor L8580 2.5GHz chipset

11 Jan, 2013, 3:28 pm IST Shunal Doke CPUs 1 Comments

ST-Ericsson has unveiled its latest NovaThor chipset, dubbed the L8580. It runs on four Cortex-A9 cores clocked at up to 2.5GHz and powered by... More

Intel hiring software experts for new tablet team

08 Sep, 2012, 3:03 pm IST Ramkumar Iyer CPUs

Intel is hiring software experts for a new tablet-centric software team, as per a new job listing posted on LinkedIn. The listing details openings for several More

Samsung developing ARM-based server chips

11 Aug, 2012, 10:07 am IST Ramkumar Iyer CPUs

Samsung is looking to launch its own server chips based on the ARM architecture. According to a report by the Seoul Economic Daily, the South Korea-based More

Samsung reveals Exynos 5 Dual details

10 Aug, 2012, 2:32 pm IST Shunal Doke CPUs

We have talked about the Exynos SoC by Samsung and it being one of the fastest pieces of hardware for tablets and smartphones. Samsung is all set... More

ARM launches 2nd gen MALI-T600 GPUs for phones, tablets and smart TVs

06 Aug, 2012, 10:37 pm IST tech2 News Staff General 1 Comments

Today, ARM announced the second generation of the ARM Mali-T600 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) that provide a dramatically improved user experience... More

Windows 8 RTM build coming in July, build number to be 8500

27 Jun, 2012, 11:59 am IST Rossi Fernandes Windows 1 Comments

Windows 8 is nearing completion and the final RTM build is expected to release in July this year, which ... More

Mid-range droids to get serious gaming boost with ARM Mali-450 GPU in 2013

15 Jun, 2012, 11:33 am IST Roydon Cerejo Windows 5 Comments

Mobile chip giant ARM Holdings has just shed some light on their plans for 2013 and the focus seems to be on gaming. With Nvidia currently being a household More

ARM unveils Hard Macro based quad-core Cortex-A15 chips

18 Apr, 2012, 9:23 am IST Roydon Cerejo Windows 1 Comments

It’s clear that quad-core ARM based chips are here for the long haul and with tablet/notebook hybrids running Windows 8 in the pipeline, the demand is More

Microsoft to launch Windows 8 in October for x86 and ARM platforms

20 Mar, 2012, 10:27 am IST Roydon Cerejo Windows

According to sources in the industry, Microsoft will finish work on Windows 8, sometime during summer ... More

Microsoft shows off Office 15 for Windows 8 on ARM

10 Feb, 2012, 5:29 pm IST Roydon Cerejo Software

We know Windows 8 for ARM devices is coming, but for a while now, there was a bit of uncertainty regarding ... More

Smartphones boost profit at Apple supplier ARM

01 Feb, 2012, 9:09 am IST Smartphones

ARM Holdings Plc, the British chip designer whose technology powers Apple Inc's iPad and iPhone, posted a 45 percent rise in quarterly profit ... More

Windows 8 on ARM devices is a go!

30 Jan, 2012, 12:00 pm IST Roydon Cerejo Smartphones

Industry sources have revealed that the ARM version of Windows 8 has grown to become a lot more stable, ... More

CES 2012: Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Hybrid to feature two CPUs

06 Jan, 2012, 6:02 pm IST Roydon Cerejo Laptops

Lenovo’s LePad may have been a washed out dream, but they are making up for that with the new ThinkPad X1 Hybrid ... More

ARM launches DS-5 Community Edition toolkit for more optimized apps

28 Nov, 2011, 1:43 pm IST Roydon Cerejo Android 1 Comments

In the quest for better optimized apps for Android, ARM has made their contribution by launching Development Studio ... More

ARMv8 to support 64-bit processing, targets high-end desktops, servers

31 Oct, 2011, 10:49 am IST Roydon Cerejo Android

At the ARM TechCon 2011 in Santa Clara, California, the British computer company issued a press release stating technical details ... More

Microsoft's hiring software engineers for WP8 OS

19 Aug, 2011, 11:05 am IST Roydon Cerejo Windows Mobile 2 Comments

With their big WP7 update still pending, the software giant has already begun work on the next version of their mobile OS, Windows Phone 8 (WP8). More

Intel’s Ultrabook hits roadbumps as manufacturers demand discounts

17 Aug, 2011, 6:11 pm IST Rossi Fernandes Windows Mobile

The new Apple MacBook Air might be out but Intel has plans for mainstream PC and notebook manufacturers to head the same way. Just a few days back, Intel More

Microsoft: Windows 8 will be as big a change as Windows 95

17 Aug, 2011, 11:00 am IST Rossi Fernandes Windows Mobile 4 Comments

Microsoft’s PR engine is firing on all pistons on the coming Windows 8 launch. Microsoft has launched a blog designed to help communicate some More