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Windows 8 touchscreen devices to be priced higher, Dell says

Wednesday, 23 May, 2012 Touchscreen laptops and tablets with the upcoming Windows 8 OS will be priced higher than their non-touchscreen counterparts, Dell's CEO said on Tuesday.

Facebook vs Google: By the Numbers

Wednesday, 23 May, 2012 With the world's largest social networking website, Facebook, going public it is quite obvious that comparisons with Google will crop up. We have collated some figures and here is a list of numbers comparing the two giants.

Google seals the deal on $12.5b Motorola acquisition

Wednesday, 23 May, 2012 Google has officially closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, putting the search giant in charge of a major smartphone, tablet and set-top box maker.

Kinect now knows when you're happy, sad, planning to turn it off

Wednesday, 23 May, 2012 Now your computer can tell when you're angry at it.

Media Design School to offer game development degrees

Tuesday, 22 May, 2012 Auckland Media Design School will soon be offering Bachelor's degrees in game development.

Spotify launches in New Zealand

Tuesday, 22 May, 2012 Music-streaming service Spotify launched in New Zealand this morning.

No price cuts for Windows 8 upgrades, says analyst

Tuesday, 22 May, 2012 Microsoft will not reduce the price of Windows 8 upgrades, as it did three years ago before the roll-out of Windows 7, a retail sales analyst said today.

Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer

Tuesday, 22 May, 2012 Google’s Chrome is now the most popular Web browser worldwide, surpassing Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for the first time, according to the latest figures from StatCounter. After years of slowly chipping away Internet Explorer’s market share, Chrome took the lead with 32.76 percent share, while IE dipped to 31.94 percent.

Quickflix comes to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Monday, 21 May, 2012 Movie and TV streaming service Quickflix is now available for iOS devices, including modern versions of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

AMD's Trinity Processor vs. Intel's Ivy Bridge

Monday, 21 May, 2012 AMD's next-generation A-Series processors, code-named Trinity, are the chip manufacturer's answer to Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors now appearing in the new Ultrabook laptops.

Telecom opens pre-orders for Samsung Galaxy S III

Monday, 21 May, 2012 Update: 2degrees customers can also now register their interest in the Galaxy S III.

iPhone 5 rumours for the week ending May 18

Monday, 21 May, 2012 Perhaps the next iPhone won't be called iPhone 5 but the Zombie iPhone, in honour of the new spate of rumours that the late Steve Jobs is still with us in a sense, as the chief designer of the upcoming handset.

China approves Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility

Monday, 21 May, 2012 Chinese regulatory authorities have approved Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility, paving the way for the deal to close within the week, company officials confirmed Saturday.

Sorkin reveals plans for Steve Jobs movie

Monday, 21 May, 2012 The screenwriter set to turn Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography into a movie for Sony Pictures says the film won’t be a straightforward biography, and that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been hired to work as a “tutor” for the film.

Paging Mr. Phelps: This SSD will self-destruct....

Friday, 18 May, 2012 | 2 comments SSD maker RunCore's InVincible SSD can wipe your data using one of two methods: overwriting the entire disk with meaningless code or frying it with voltage.

J*******k: Dirty word disappears from Apple iTunes store

Friday, 18 May, 2012 Apple historically has fought iPhone jailbreaking by warning customers that their device warranties will be voided if they muck around with the innards of their Apple products. Now Apple appears to be taking its disapproval of jailbreaking one step further by censoring at least some references to "jailbreak" in its US iTunes store.

Google search will incorporate 'knowledge graph' into main search results

Thursday, 17 May, 2012 Google will begin in the next few days to incorporate the 'knowledge graph' it has been building for two years into its search results.

AMD Trinity APUs to compete with Intel Ivy Bridge processors

Thursday, 17 May, 2012 AMD touts a ‘ground-up’ improvement with the 'Trinity' A-Series APUs, compared to the previous generation with double the performance per watt. Eyeing up the Ultrabook market, the firm quotes up to 12 hours of battery life for notebooks by way of the power-optimised ‘Piledriver’ CPU core.

Android, Samsung top smartphone sales, topping Apple's iPhone

Thursday, 17 May, 2012 Android smartphones made up 56% of the global smartphones sold to end users in the first quarter of 2012, giving them a far higher share than the 22.9% held by Apple's runner-up iPhone, Gartner said Wednesday.

Microsoft tunes up Windows 8 multi-screen

Thursday, 17 May, 2012 When Microsoft launches Windows 8 Release Preview next month the operating system will have improved navigation features for users who like more than one monitor to display all their applications.

Android users targeted by premium-rate SMS malware

Wednesday, 16 May, 2012 In a clear warning to mobile users in developed markets, Russian cybercriminals have started distributing a wave of premium rate malware from rogue marketplaces, including one example disguised as an Android Flash Player.

Foxconn denies 'working on Apple television' claims

Wednesday, 16 May, 2012 Days after a report emerged from China, claiming that Foxconn boss Terry Gou had confirmed that Apple is working with Sharp to create an Apple television set, the company has denied the rumour.

Intel wants to be inside the iPhone

Tuesday, 15 May, 2012 Intel CEO Paul Otellini says Intel's job “is to insure our silicon is so compelling, in terms of running the Mac better or being a better iPad device, that as they make those decisions they can’t ignore us”.

Diablo III launches at 7pm: What you need to know

Tuesday, 15 May, 2012 | 2 comments Gamers around the world are getting ready to mouse-click the night away with the midnight launch of Diablo III.

Game Of Thrones tops 2012 piracy charts, copyright wars continue

Tuesday, 15 May, 2012 The second season of Game of Thrones is on track to be 2012's most pirated television show with more than 25 million downloads for the first six episodes since the series' debut on April 1. The show hit its highpoint after episode 5, 'The Ghosts of Harrenhal', was downloaded more than 2.5 million times in a single day.

Foxconn boss confirms Apple TV set

Monday, 14 May, 2012 Foxconn boss, Terry Gou, has reportedly confirmed that Apple is working on a HD television set, dubbed the iTV.

Windows 8 Update: Firefox, Chrome cry foul over Windows 8 ARM

Monday, 14 May, 2012 | 1 comment Microsoft is taking heat from browser competitors Firefox and Chrome for blocking them out of planned Windows 8 devices that will be based on ARM processors.

Scott Thompson out as Yahoo CEO

Monday, 14 May, 2012 Embattled Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has left the company, Yahoo announced Sunday, after more than a week of controversy over questions about embellishments to his resume.

A world without print

Saturday, 12 May, 2012 PC and printer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard created a world without print when it took all printed materials away from the small northern mid-west American town of Spring Green for seven days, as part of a social experiment.

Opinion: Why NZ doesn't have HP Ultrabooks

Friday, 11 May, 2012 | 1 comment New Zealand has HP laptops that meet Ultrabook spec, but they're not called Ultrabooks. Why is that?

Bethesda's Dishonored dated

Friday, 11 May, 2012 Bethesda's stealth action game, Dishonored, will be released on 11 October, the company has announced.

HP and 3M power desktop PCs with just an Ethernet cable

Friday, 11 May, 2012 | 1 comment HP and 3M have collaborated on a project they call One Wire. In essence, this is a combination of thin client desktop PC and power-over-Ethernet cable to produce a simple system that can be used in both emerging markets, and in disaster situations.

Intel moving fast to improve smartphone processors

Friday, 11 May, 2012 Intel finally entered the smartphone market last month but the company is not sitting still, with plans to quickly release chips that improve performance and power efficiency on smartphones.

PopCap Games CEO: Android still too fragmented, China helping company innovate

Friday, 11 May, 2012 Android's increased fragmentation across hardware devices and OS versions, and its lack of a central app store, have left game developers disappointed with the OS, according to the CEO of "Plants vs. Zombies" publisher PopCap Games.

Awkward robot craves your attention, mimics your expressions

Friday, 11 May, 2012 Plenty of us would love a robot to follow us around, perhaps as company or to do all the chores, but not like this. The Gestural Interactive Robot (G.I.A.) follows you around in order to engage you, and records your facial expressions.

Sony targets return to profitability after record $7.3 billion loss last year

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