APPLE
Watch This: Smartwatches are Coming to Arms Near You – A Many Vendored Thing

Smartphones are becoming a commodity, with some analysts projecting $50 to $100 products with good specifications arriving in the foreseeable future.

 

APPLE
HTC J Butterfly Smartphone Emerges From Cocoon as DLX or DROID DNA – Verizon USA

Here's to hoping for a furious flurry of flocks of phablet sized smartphones with PPI counts higher than a gaggle of migrating geese.

 

APPLE
HTC J Butterfly 440 PPI Smartphone Could Fly to USA Punching Above Its Weight

Apple may want to hide in a bunker & batten down the hatches, because if pixels were projectiles, Apple would be punched full of holes.

 

APPLE
2013 Smartphones With 5-Inch 443 PPI Full HD 1,080p Displays Will Kick Glass

2013 smartphones will apparently include a bevy of products good enough to eye for.

 

APPLE
World’s 1st 441 PPI Full HD 1,080p Smartphone – Oppo Find 5: Just Say El-Wow-Zoid

Apple should be wincing right about now, because the Oppo Find 5 will provide a 35% improvement over Apple's so-called "retina display".

 

APPLE
651ppi JDI Display = 2x the Resolution of Apple’s Retina Display

The new kid in town is Japan Display Inc.'s 651ppi, LCD, smartphone display.

 

APPLE
Retina Display Resolution – Retina Quality, Retina Class, Retina Style

Apple created the phrase "retina display", as a marketing term, but it actually does translate into solid silicon substance.

 

APPLE
Apple Inc. May Get $37-Million from Taxpayers

Apple Computer was founded on April Fools Day, 1976 by Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs. The two developed a series of user-friendly personal computers that they initially sold for $666.66 each. Apple is now set to get up to $37-million from taxpayers.

 

APPLE
Microsoft Windows 8 Release Date & New Austin Retail Store

Microsoft will open 75 retail stores, and number 16 is coming to Austin. Windows 8 release date is expected in October; and that OS can support a maximum screen resolution higher than the new iPad's "retina" display.

 

AMD
2012 – 2013 PC Sales Growth Projected by Gartner Research

Gartner Research predicts a growth-rate for PCs more than seven times greater in 2012 than the previous year, and is forecasting even higher growth by the end of 2013.

 

AMD
What is the Consumerization of IT Trend? – Executive Digest

A trend is developing in which employees will bear substantial costs associated with owning and operating computing devices which serve the interests of corporations. The "wireless" device will prove to be stronger than a leash made of steel wire. That trend is the IT-ization of Employees.

 

APPLE
5 New Ultrabooks / Laptops + 1 Ghost = 2012

The next 18 months will see the Ultrabook / Ultrathin tidal-wave covering the global landscape, driven not only by improvements, but also by pent-up demand from corporate IT departments and consumers that have delayed purchases because of world-wide economic conditions. Here are 5 players and a yet-to-be-born machine.

 

AMD
Ultrabooks & Ultrathins: The Incoming Tidal-Wave

Intel has taken an initiative so bold and defined, with clear and workable methods of implementation, that the results in the next 18 months could electrify notebook industry sales-volume in a manner similar to jump-starting your car's battery with a 50,000-volt power line.

 

APPLE
Ultrabook vs Laptop vs Notebook vs Netbook

Convergence may be a word we will be hearing more often, and it accounts for the mild confusion related to defining the differences between Laptops vs Notebooks vs Netbooks; and now the new Ultrabooks. The basis for that confusion is the simple fact that there are no specific and fully agreed upon industry standards which would actually be the definitions.