Intel is seeking a reboot in the tablet market with its upcoming Atom Z2760 chips code-named Clover Trail, and 20 tablets are in the works with the new chips, the company said on Tuesday. “Our customers have 20 designs in their labs based on Clover Trail,” said Hermann Eul, president of Many…

This week over in Taiwan at Computex, the folks at Acer have brought on three waves of fury for the upcoming release of Windows 8 later this year: All-in-Ones, Tablets, and touchscreen Ultrabooks. We’ve got hands-on with each of the big guns we’ve seen in the past 24 hours, but Next you’ll…

KUWAIT A Kuwaiti man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday after he was convicted of endangering state security by insulting the Prophet Mohammad and the Sunni Muslim rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on social media. Shi’ite Muslim Hamad al-Naqi pleaded innocent at the start of the trial…

This Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone May 17-20, 2012, among a random national sample of 1,004 adults, including 740 Internet users, landline and cell phone-only respondents. Results for the full sample have a 3.5 point error margin, and four points for results among Internet users. This Washington Post poll was conducted by…

The weather has been working against us in the Hibernian branch of Special Projects: not only did it rain interminably for months but it then broke into blazing sunshine prompting an explosion of growth for which we were entirely unprepared. Location sensing is still under development, more on that later,…

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — Did Tim Cook really say that? I couldn’t believe my ears at the All Things D conference, the annual powwow of tech and media tycoons. Maybe I had too much sparkling water and shaved prosciutto at the oceanfront reception. But sure enough, last Tuesday, Apple’s…

IDC If enterprises are going to embrace the coming Microsoft Windows 8 operating system, especially for use on tablet computers, they should strongly consider buying tablets built on the Intel x86 processor architecture rather than on the ARM architecture because x86 would be more compatible with their existing Windows environment, Asked…

Location-based service Foursquare will get a major revision in the coming days, donning a personalized Maps tool and other discovery features. The new elements look as though they’ll supplement the app’s Explore tab, leveraging users’ check-ins to recommend places to go and offer nearby deals. Explore launched in mobile apps…

Airtel Ghana says the number of subscribers of its BlackBerry service has grown considerably following the introduction of value plans to the service earlier this year. The value plans included the Absolute Plan, Complete Plan and Social Plan, each with varying bouquets, which offered customers affordable usage on subscription. A…

Consumers and businessses should expect Microsoft to increasingly promote its brand and push more users toward the digital cloud, said regional General Manager Craig Hodges. In a wide-ranging interview with the Herald, Hodges spoke about Microsoft’s efforts to bring its mobile phones, computers and the popular set-top box and gaming…