The first smartphone with an Intel chip will become available in India this week from mobile device maker Lava International, ending a long wait for the chip maker to enter the smartphone market.
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First Intel Inside smartphone coming from Lava this week
Get ready for the first smartphone running on an Intel chip. That phone will likely be from Lava, according to a source. [Read more]
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First Intel-powered smartphone due this week
Apple and Samsung are going to try talking it out; you may soon smell of eau d’Apple; and the iPhone will likely remain pleasing to the eyes. The remainders for Tuesday, April 17, 2012 will be in touch.
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Remains of the Day: Delighting the senses
While IBM continues to financially excel at selling software and systems, its hardware revenue for the past three months has been sluggish, according to the latest quarterly results posted by IBM on Tuesday. The hardware results didn’t help the company’s overall revenue, which was flat for the quarter
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IBM posts flat revenue, falling hardware sales
The halcyon days of tax-free Internet shopping may soon be over, if Congress approves a proposed federal law supported by Wal-Mart and other big-box stores. [Read more]
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Politicians, retailers push for new Internet sales taxes
In another example of Japan getting all the neat stuff first, Sony details a beefy DVR and media storage hub that is compatible with its PlayStation, Vaio, Tablet, and Xperia lines. [Read more]
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Introducing Nasne, Sony’s sleek DVR of (Japan’s) future
Apple says Greenpeace is way off on energy estimates for Apple’s latest data center, which it expects to be powered mostly by renewable sources. [Read more]
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Apple slaps back at Greenpeace for dirty-cloud report
Paramount releases the fourth installment of “Mission: Impossible” on Blu-ray this week, and it looks and sounds great. [Read more]
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New this week on Blu-ray: ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’
Intel said on Tuesday that it would announce its first Core processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture next week, and the first chips won’t be for ultrabooks, but will be quad-core parts for high-end desktops and laptops.
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Intel’s first Ivy Bridge chips will be high-end quad-core parts
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is the first full Android 4.0 tablet with the size, price, and performance to compete with the Kindle Fire, but can it match what the Fire does best? [Read more]
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Is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 a better Kindle Fire than the Kindle Fire?