CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Samsung’s P10 Tablet with Exynos 5 Dual May Kick Apple’s Core

The P10 tablet's Exynos 5 Dual chipset will likely blow the market away with best-in-class performance, and its gorgeous display could turn it into an Apple corer device.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Stealth Tablet Envelope has Something Up Your Sleeve

"Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound", but you supply the leaping.

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Schott Glass Xensation Shoots at Corning Gorilla Glass 2

What happens when a Schott Glass takes on a Gorilla? Apparently, no broken glass.

 

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.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Super Lithium-Ion Battery Could Supercharge Phones, PCs, & Cars

When super lithium-ion batteries become common-place in mobile devices, it should be possible to go for days without re-charging for some devices, and twenty-four to thirty hours on a charge for a 2013 thin-and-light ultrabook or ultrathin laptop.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Driving Convertibles & Merging Laptops + Tablets = Hybrids

Ultimately, many businesses and consumers will find convertible, hybrid, laptop-tablets to be "simply irresistible" to quote a song's lyrics, and resistance will be futile (credit the Borg).

 

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.

 

DELL
Dell Computers Technology News & Developments – Silicon Hills

The bright spot for all computer manufacturers is an IDC report that: ...."end user surveys tell us that few people consider media tablets as replacements for their PCs, so later this year when there is a new Microsoft operating system, available in sleek new PC form factors, we believe consumer interest in PCs will begin to rebound".

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Upcoming Phablet Smartphone Technology Trends & Developments

The Phablet smartphone is born converging on the gray zone.

 

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.

 

DELL
Dell Latitude ST Tablet – Tech Community Roundup

Android-based mobile devices did not work for Dell, and a similar fate is playing out for the Dell Latitude ST tablet running Windows 7; but "....with Windows 8 coming on you'll see some very exciting new tablets from Dell and probably others that make it a very interesting landscape".

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Asus PadFone Specs – It’s déjà vu all over again

As the famous baseball icon, Yogi Berra, once said: It's "déjà vu all over again". No, actually it's more like déjà Fujitsu Lifebook 2013 Concept Notebook all over again. Several different types of things are turning into, uhmmm, a multi-thingy device: and so it it with the Asus PadFone.

 

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.

 

DELL
DELL Discontinues Netbooks – A Short Story with a Long Future

Dell confirms consumer-oriented netbooks, with screens 10-inches or smaller, are essentially finished, having been diminished by rising tablet sales. Dell says its future lies in thin and powerful, which certainly means ultrabooks for the immediate future.

 

DELL
That Round Logo on Some DELL Products May Actually Be the Winners’ Circle

More than ever the accelerating trend is definitely toward thinner & lighter, while sacrificing none of the power and battery life of thicker, heavier machines. Both the Dell INSPIRON 14z and the XPS 14z have taken a big step in that direction, and the differences between them are somewhat analogous to that automotive scenario.