Monthly Archives: January 2013
Apple iOS Continues to Lead as Best-Selling U.S. Smartphone OS
Apple's iOS mobile device operating system continues to lead the United States in overall market share, according to a new report from consumer market...
Apple’s App Store Hits Record 2 Billion Downloads in December
Apple's App Store is continuing its rapid success, marking 40 billion downloads by customers since the store was created in July 2008, with some...
Dot Hill Earns Patent for Real-Time Storage Tiering
LAS VEGAS — Storage software developer Dot Hill has made the engine for Hewlett-Packard's entry-level MSA 2000 arrays for a number of years. However,...
Nvidia Intros Tegra 4 Mobile Chip at CES
Nvidia officials are getting ahead of what promises to be a very mobile-focused Consumer Electronics Show with the unveiling of the fourth generation of...
Microsoft Casts Long Shadow Over CES
Microsoft may be gone, but it's definitely not forgotten.The software giant announced in late 2011 that it would give up its coveted CES keynote...
Lenovo Intros Windows 8 Laptops, Convertibles, AIO and Gamer PC
Lenovo arrived at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with a product load befitting the industry's new king of the PC mountain....
Toshiba Adds Self-Encryption to New SSD, Mobile Drives
LAS VEGAS — Toshiba America's Electronic Components division on Jan. 6 launched four new 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) drives embedded with cryptographic-erase and self-encrypting...
Behave Like You’re in Public
Behave Like You're in Public
People generally like privacy, and hiding behind a laptop helps us forget that we're surrounded by strangers. However, it's important...
An Improved Siri
An Improved Siri
When Siri launched in iOS 5, it worked well—to an extent. When confronted with complex questions, the virtual personal assistant broke down....
Seagate Debuts Wireless Plus Mobile Device Storage at CES
Storage specialist Seagate announced the next evolution of the company's wireless storage category, Wireless Plus mobile device storage, at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show...