Laptops/Tablets

Lenovo at IFA 2019 on Thursday launched a new Google Assistant-enabled Smart Display 7, the Smart Tab M8 tablet, and the Yoga Smart Tab tablet. The Smart Tab M8 and Yoga Smart Tab both run Android, while the Smart Display 7 is part of the company’s Smart Display series. The company detailed the price and

Acer on Wednesday unveiled new laptops, Chromebooks, and other devices ahead of the public opening of the IFA 2019 tech fair in Berlin. The newly introduced Acer devices include ConceptD Pro notebooks featuring Nvidia Quadro GPUs, 14-inch Swift 5 notebook, 14-inch Swift 3 notebook, Predator Triton 300 gaming notebook, and four new Chromebooks. All new

IFA, the electronics trade show, officially kicks off on September 6 but the two days leading up to this are when all the major announcements happen. Razer has announced a new laptop called the Blade Stealth 13, which it claims is the “world’s first gaming Ultrabook.” The new laptop is a refresh of the existing

Intel has just made two separate 10th generation CPU announcements — Comet Lake and Ice Lake — and laptops based on these new chips will most likely hit store shelves in India at around the same time. That should be in a couple of months, and it is bound to cause a lot of confusion

Tapping factories in Brazil and India has not lessened Apple’s dependence on China, the company’s supply chain data shows, raising the stakes for the iPhone maker as US President Donald Trump wages a trade war and promises more tariffs. Apple faces levies of 15 percent imposed by Trump’s administration on major products made in China such as smartwatches

In compliance with the advisory issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), national carrier Air India on Saturday requested passengers not to carry “15-inch Apple MacBook Pro (purchased between September 2015 – February 2017) as checked-in or hand baggage.” Issuing a public note on Twitter, Air India said, “In view of the advisory

Lenovo has announced its new portfolio of consumer devices ahead of IFA 2019. The company’s latest consumer lineup includes PCs, Chromebook laptops, tablets, monitors, and more. Lenovo’s event at IFA 2019 is titled ‘Tech Life’, and will showcase all these new products before they hit markets worldwide. The company is focussing on its next lineup

Lenovo Tab M8 and Lenovo Tab M7 tablets have now been launched. The two tablets will be available from October onwards, and are priced starting from EUR 99 (roughly Rs.7,800 ). These new 7-inch and 8-inch tablets run on Android Pie and feature a 2-megapixel selfie cameras. The Lenovo Tab M8 is the more premium

Dell Technologies beat Wall Street profit estimates on Thursday, helped by higher demand for desktops, as well as a focus on more profitable contracts within its server unit in China, sending the company’s shares up 9 percent in extended trading. The PC maker is seeing declining demand across industries in China amid an escalating Sino-US trade war, but

Apple is poised to start online sales of its devices in India within months, a person familiar with the matter said, benefiting from new rules making the world’s fastest-growing smartphone market more attractive to foreign brands. On Wednesday, India eased rules that forced companies such as Apple to source 30 percent of their production locally - a requirement the

Apple has finally fixed an “unpatched” bug in the latest iOS update that had left its most up-to-date iPhones vulnerable to hacking risk. The new update “iOS 12.4.1” introduces a fix for vulnerability in which, according to Apple, “a malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges”. “We would like to

Qualcomm on Tuesday announced a new range of Wi-Fi chips designed to work with Wi-Fi 6, the newest version of the technology and one that Qualcomm hopes will help boost sales of its separate 5G chips. Qualcomm is the biggest supplier of mobile phone chips but has been looking to expand beyond that as the global

Apple’s reliance on China is looking increasingly like its biggest handicap. The world’s most influential consumer electronics company shed $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,14 lakh crores) of market value Friday after a pair of pronouncements from Beijing and Washington cast a spotlight on its massive Chinese production base, from which almost all of the world’s iPhones

The Type-C port has been around for a while now, and most, if not all, Android flagship smartphones these days sport the modern USB port. In the last few months, we’ve seen it trickle down the price points, and it’s no longer uncommon to see phones under Rs. 15,000 ship with a Type-C port. However,

HP said on Thursday Chief Executive Officer Dion Weisler is stepping down after nearly four years in the role, and forecast fourth-quarter profit below Wall Street estimates, sending its shares down 6 percent in late trade. The company said Weisler, 52, is leaving the role to attend to a family health matter. Enrique Lores, a 30-year veteran

LG has now launched three new Gram laptops in India, running Windows 10 Home. The new additions include LG Gram 17, LG Gram 15, and LG Gram 14 laptops, and they will go on sale on Amazon India from next week. LG Gram 17-inch variant is awarded to be the world’s lightest laptop in its

Chinese technology giant Huawei on Friday launched what it is calling world’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) processor — the Ascend 910 — along with an all-scenario AI computing framework called MindSpore. The Ascend 910 is a new AI processor that belongs to the company’s series of Ascend-Max chipsets. The telecom giant had announced that

Android Q is now Android 10. Breaking the 10-year history of naming Android releases after desserts, Google on Thursday announced it had officially named the next version as just Android 10. In the official blog, Google noted that it is changing the way it names the Android releases to make it clear and relatable for

The latest preview build of Windows 10, available to Windows Insider beta testers on the fast update ring, shows off some improvements that could make life better for early adopters and help Microsoft track bugs with each update it releases. Build 18965 is part of what will become the final Windows 10 20H1 release, set to

Apple is readying a clutch of new hardware for the coming weeks and months, including “Pro” iPhones, upgrades to iPads and its largest laptop in years. The Cupertino, California-based technology giant is planning to announce three new iPhones at an event next month, according to people familiar with the situation. The handsets will likely go on

Just weeks after unveiling the first models in its 10th Gen Core CPU lineup, Intel has now announced another series based on a different architecture, but targeted at the same segment. The ‘Ice Lake’ family of chips announced on August 1 are based on Intel’s next-gen ‘Ice Lake’ architecture and are the company’s first mass-market

Intel on Tuesday unveiled its latest processor that will be its first using artificial intelligence (AI) and is designed for large computing centres. The chip, developed at its development facility in Haifa, Israel, is known as Nervana NNP-I or Springhill and is based on a 10 nanometre Ice Lake processor that will allow it to cope

Microsoft’s Surface devices have been hit by a severe CPU throttling issue, causing the processor to throttle down to just 400MHz. Additionally, some users are reporting Wi-Fi connectivity issues, specifically while trying to connect with a 5GHz network, after downloading new firmware updates that were reportedly released earlier this month. Microsoft has been made aware

Google is rolling out a major Chrome OS update – Chrome OS 76 – for the month of August, complete with new features like improved media playback, an updated camera app for the Pixelbook and more. For media controls, one can now open system menu and see all of the tabs or apps on Chromebook

The guest Wi-Fi at your home is prone to hacking owing to inadequate in-built security, say researchers. Most routers sold today offer consumers two or more network options – one for the family which may connect all the sensitive smart devices and computers and the other for visitors or less sensitive data. A study by

Today’s premium ultraportable laptops don’t have to cut too many corners in order to be super thin and super light. Recent generations of low-power processors don’t require a lot of cooling, and more efficient hardware and software allows for decent battery life even with physically smaller batteries. The relatively tiny USB Type-C Port has also

Apple has created 2.4 million jobs across all the 50 US states so far, four times the number of American jobs attributable to the company eight years ago. The Cupertino-headquartered company is on pace to directly contribute $350 billion (roughly Rs. 25 lakh crores) to the US economy by 2023, announced in January 2018, Apple

An Indian student was sentenced to 12 months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, for intentionally damaging computer equipment of a college in New York. Vishwanath Akuthota, 27, of Albany was also ordered to pay $58,471 (roughly Rs. 41.7 lakhs) as restitution charge, United States Attorney Grant C Jaquith said

Recording a strong 49.2 percent year-on-year (YOY) growth, the traditional PC market in India (desktop, notebook and workstation) shipped 3.4 million units in the second quarter (Q2) of 2019, the International Data Corporation (IDC) said on Wednesday. However, the consumer PC market declined by 14 percent (YoY) as the expected revival post-elections remained subpar and

Taiwan’s Foxconn, which makes smartphones for Apple and other brands, reported a 2.5 percent fall in quarterly profit on Tuesday, a slightly smaller decline than analysts’ expected. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, reported net profit of TWD 17.05 billion ($542 million) for the April-June quarter, versus