Hardware makers rush to ARM Windows 10
HP, Asus and Lenovo join the arms race
HP, Asus and Lenovo will be the first hardware makers to churn out ARM-based Windows 10 PCs.
HP develops IonTouch rewritable system for plastic cards
A zero-energy hybrid between digital displays and e-ink
HP Labs announced a new hybrid printing technology that is set to change the way that employee IDs, visitor passes, gate passes and other temporary passes are distributed to the general public.
Notebook sales only dropped 1.2 percent in the last quarter
Not as bad as expected
Beancounters at Digitimes Research have added up some numbers and divided by their shoesize and reacted the conclusion that worldwide notebook shipments (not including 2-in-1 devices) dropped only 1.2 percent.
HP will be the king of the notebooks this year
Replacing Lenovo
The maker of expensive printer ink, HP, is expected to replace Lenovo as the top notebook vendor worldwide in 2017.
Intel’s Atom C2000s head for a meltdown
Force themselves into retirement after a couple of years
Chipzilla’s Atom C2000 processor family is shipping with a fault which is going to cost Intel a boatload of cash to fix.
HP recalls 101,000 notebook batteries
Less than 1 percent of notebooks affected
Hewlett Packard told the press that it will recall nearly 101,000 notebook batteries from products sold between March 2013 and October 2016, because the units could overheat and pose serious fire and burn hazards.
Notebook sales increased in November
Top three saw 10 per cent boost
Beancounters at Digitimes Research have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and come up with some good news for notebook manufacturers.
HP shuts down FTP and Telnet protocols on printers
Better safe than sorry
HP has decided to shut down aging FTP and Telnet protocols on some of its elderly printers.
Microsoft plans to bring x86 emulation to ARM
It will be in Windows 10 in 2017
Microsoft will be rolling out x86 emulation for ARM processors in the Redstone 3 upgrade of Windows 10 late next year.
HP unveils Z2 Mini workstation-class mini PC
A small beast with Nvidia Quadro and Intel Xeon
At Autodesk University in Las Vegas, HP showed off its newest Z2 Mini Workstation, a mini-PC that will be powered by Nvidia's Quadro GPU and Intel Xeon E3-1200v5 CPU.