What’s the next iPhone going to look like? Depends who you ask. Apple With new “iPhone 6” mockups surfacing daily, the Apple faithful can get testy about pushing their vision of the sight-unseen device. The latest kerfuffle came this week after Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun (aka, Nikkei) reprinted a report from Nikkei Design, a sister …
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Surface Pro 3: after constant use, the dual personality of Windows 8.1 can grate. Brooke Crothers/CNET The Surface Pro 3 has held up well after two weeks of constant use, but it’s not the Holy Grail of hybrids. First, the bad news — which is old news, in a way, because it’s about Windows 8.1. Standalone tablet — not: Maybe …
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Sharp is a display supplier for Apple’s iPads, including this Mini Retina model. Sarah Tew/CNET A Sharp is allocating a large chunk of its LCD production to Apple — but it isn’t terribly sanguine about the prospect, a company executive said on Monday. The entire output of the Japanese display maker’s Kameyama No. 1 plant “goes to just one company …
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Microsoft Cortana James Martin/CNET Microsoft has added its virtual assistant software to Skype — though it’s limited to the Windows Phone platforms. Update 2.19 for Skype on Windows Phone 8 and Phone 8.1 (in the US) now integrates Cortana, a voice recognition technology that was introduced at the company’s Build conference in April. “Now you can start Skype video and …
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The Century City Los Angeles Microsoft Store’s Surface Pro 3 display. Note the MacBook Air comparisons. Brooke Crothers/CNET Surface Pro 3 sales will finally launch on Friday. But should Microsoft be marketing it as a MacBook Air replacement? Consumers who preordered the Core i5 model (starting at $999) can pick it up at Microsoft stores on Friday. (The entry-level Core …
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Manufacturers are getting ready to make a 5.5-inch Apple device. Apple/Screenshot by Brooke Crothers/CNET Activity at Japan-based machine tool manufacturers and component suppliers is brisk for the next-generation iPhone. But it’s not all good news, according to Japan’s Nikkei business daily. Domestic orders for industries connected to the next-gen iPhone are “booming,” Nikkei said in the online Japanese-language version of …
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HP CEO Meg Whitman, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich (center), and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at HP’s Discover conference this week. Hewlett-Packard/Screenshot by Brooke Crothers/CNET Are we ready, willing, and able to deal with the flood of information pouring in from phones, tablets, glasses, clothes, bracelets, and watches? Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella …
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Asus Transformer Book V: Android and Windows reside in the phone and tablet, respectively. Aloysius Low/CNET If at first you don’t succeed. Asus is taking another crack at dual-OS device. And this time it probably found a way to get around objections from Microsoft and Google. First, a little background. Asus launched a dual Windows 8.1-Android tablet-laptop at CES in …
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Surface Pro 3: from bed, to car, to real work at the office. That seems to be the message. Microsoft The first Surface Pro 3 ad has debuted, presumably bound for a TV audience. One of the new messages: you can use the tablet in bed. The ad begins, appropriately, with the actor flat on his back in bed. Then …
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Intel also has a 10-inch version of Llama Mountain, which is even thinner than the already-very-thin 12.5-inch model. Intel Intel will unveil an even thinner version of its tablet design at the Computex conference on Wednesday, as well as show off a host of other technologies and announce a collaborative effort with Acer. In keynotes, Kirk Skaugen, general manager of …
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