17.06.2013 Dell’s latest laptops from its Alienware range of high-performance PC gaming systems were unveiled last week at E3 in Los Angeles, debuting an angular new design inspired by jet engines and stealth bombers.
11.06.2013 While the public face of Apple for so many years had been represented by the charismatic Steve Jobs, for industry insiders the man who co-founded Apple in Jobs’ garage with US$600, Steve Wozniak, has long been an equally iconic figure.
10.06.2013 Apple’s Phil Schiller aimed to silence the critics with a sneak peek of the next generation Mac Pro desktop computer that certainly pushes the boundaries of computing in a whole new direction. Not only does it suggest an entirely new cylindrical form factor but it is the first Mac to ever come standard with dual workstation CPUs and GPUs that can stream from multiple 4K displays.
10.06.2013 At WWDC today Apple revealed the next generation of MacBook Air which will be capable of all day battery life and come with fourth generation Intel ‘Haswell’ Core processors with faster graphics, 802.11ac Wi-Fi and flash storage that is up to 45pc faster than the previous generation.
10.06.2013 Apple has dispensed with the tradition of naming its operating systems after wild cats and has called its next generation operating system Mac OS X Mavericks, after a favourite surfing location in California. The new OS will come with 200 new features and brings iBooks and Maps to the Mac.
10.06.2013 In the world today, some 783m people, or 11pc of the world’s population, do not have access to clean drinking water, while every 20 seconds a child dies from a disease related to drinking dirty water. It is against this backdrop that Intel Ireland hosted a one-day summit at the Science Gallery in Dublin today to hear from global experts on the future of water, as well as the technological opportunities.
10.06.2013 A look at gadget happenings, as Computex brings us new computers from Sony and Acer featuring Intel’s new Haswell processors, plus a revolutionary all-in-one tablet, laptop and desktop from Asus. We also have new smartphones from Vodafone and Sony, Samsung’s latest tablets, leaked information on new devices coming from HTC, Nokia and BlackBerry, and a fitness tracker for man’s best friend.
10.06.2013 Technology companies scheduled to release their financial results this week.
07.06.2013 Just a day after reports surfaced that the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US interpreted the Patriot Act in such a way as to seek phone records of millions of US citizens from Verizon it is now being claimed that the NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading internet companies.
05.06.2013 Tech giant Apple has expressed disappointment with a decision by the International Trade Commission to accede to Samsung’s requests for a ban on imports of earlier Apple devices, including iPhone 4 and a version of the iPad 2 that are still popular in the market today.
