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Intel chips are the brains of most desktop and laptop computers, but the company has not yet been able to produce a successful processor for the mobile phone or tablet market. Today, Intel announced that an Android phone powered by an Intel chip will be on the market in early 2012, and all future builds of Android will be optimized for Intel silicon. Android will be designed from the kernel up to optimize performance on Intel chips. The official… Read More

The cellphone revolution of the last 10 years has been amazing and the influx of smartphones and tablets that now crowd our shelves are challenging the ways we compute. Unfortunately for Intel, all of these new devices are powered by ARM processors, not Intel chips. Sure, Intel is still dominating when it comes to PCs, but PCs aren't the growing market anymore. At Computex in May, Intel debuted 10 new tablets, all running on its Atom chip… Read More

When Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced that his company’s chips would be making their way to smartphones, he called the transition “a marathon, not a sprint.” A marathon it is, as Otellini says this debut will be postponed yet again. At this year’s Mobile World Congress in February, we heard we could expect smartphones powered by Intel processors to hit shelves in 2011 – before that, we’d heard they would be here during the first half of 2011.… Read More

Buzz in the tablet market my be dominated by consumer devices like the Apple iPad 2 and Android devices like the Galaxy Tab and the Motorola Xoom, but networking giant Cisco is looking to get into the game too—only its targeting enterprises and video conferencing capabilities, rather than Web browsing, social networking, and application markets. The Cisco Cius sports a 7-inch display, Android 2.2, and a five megapixel video-capable… Read More

Although Apple's iPad 2 is by for the dominant player in the tablet market, there's no mistaking that competition is heating up as a growing number of companies enter the fray. Although most consumer attention has focused on Android tablets from the likes of Samsung and Motorola—as well as RIM's forthcoming PlayBook—Taiwanese motherbaord manufacturer Gigabyte is hoping to get into the game with a new twist:… Read More

Finland's Nokia is widely expected to show off its new MeeGo mobile platform at the upcoming Mobile World Conference in Barcelona. Meego is born from a partnership between Nokia and Intel, putting Nokia's development environment on top of Intel's Moblin architecture and turning the result loose on the open source community. However, Finland's Processori reports (Finnish) that Nokia's partnership with Intel may… Read More

The honeymoon may be over for netbooks. After an astronomic rise in sales following their introduction around three years ago – and surprisingly unhampered by the foul economy – netbook sales have finally slowed. According to market research firm IDC, shipments to retailers early this year still grew 33.6 percent over last year. That’s growth most industries would kill for, but it pales in comparison to the 872 percent growth netbooks… Read More

Apple is in a constant battle with unlockers in the form of both independent enthusiasts and rival companies. It recently succeeded in killing iPhone jailbreaking for the time being and cutting off the Palm Pre from iTunes. However, to its dismay, Psystar is selling a software hack to trick Apple's Snow Leopard OS into being easily installed on PCs. Now, Apple is reportedly preparing a new release of OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.2) to try to… Read More

MSI continues to pump out entries in its Wind line of netbook computers: the latest addition is the Wind U110 Eco, which claims to offer over 15 hours of live with a single charge of a 9-cell battery—and with that battery, it'll weigh just 3.2 pounds, potentially making it a viable portable solution for folks who are away from wall power for long periods of time. Under the hood, the Wind U110 Eco isn't breaking any barriers in the… Read More