The most recent Mobile Technology articles from Personal Computer World

Ultra-mobile sales soar

Clive Akass — 2008-06-30T14:15:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Monday 30 June 2008 at 14:15:00

Asus sparks 3,000 per cent growth – but HP leads rapidly expanding notebook market

Ultra-mobile sales saw an astonishing 3,056 per cent growth in the year up to March 31, and were 70 per cent up on the previous quarter, according to figures released...

Atom-powered Eee PCs here next month

Clive Akass — 2008-06-13T11:25:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Friday 13 June 2008 at 11:25:00

8.9in model will cost £319 regardless of operating system

The latest Atom-powered Eee PC models will be available in Britain on 1 July, Asus has announced. The Eee PC 901, which has an 8.9in display, will cost £319 including...

AMD talks up new notebook platform

Clive Akass — 2008-06-12T17:56:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 12 June 2008 at 17:56:00

We're fastest for graphics and wireless, says company at launch of ne HP range

The launch of Intel's Atom at Computex earlier this month rather eclipsed that of AMD's new notebook platform with its Turion x2 64bit processor....

HP resets its style

Clive Akass — 2008-06-10T14:26:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 10 June 2008 at 14:26:00

New products and slick presentation take a leaf out of Apple's book

HP flew 600 journalists to Berlin for the biggest and slickest launch in its history today when it unveiled 16 new notebooks, a PC with an iPod-style touch-screen interface, a...

Fearful workers shun home working

Clive Akass — 2008-06-05T12:58:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 5 June 2008 at 12:58:00

Presenteesim ousts absenteeism as staff strive to look busy in front of bosses

British workers, fearful of losing their job in the worsening economic climate, are shunning remote working so that they can look busy in front of their bosses, according to a...

CSR packs satnav with Bluetooth

Clive Akass — 2008-06-04T17:42:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 4 June 2008 at 17:42:00

Latest chip also receives and sends FM - pushing audio to your car radio

Bluetooth market leader CSR has unveiled its seventh-generation BlueCore chip bundling the short-range wireless link with enhanced satnav (eGPS) and FM transmit and receive....

Tegra fires early shot in Atom war

Clive Akass — 2008-06-04T14:58:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 4 June 2008 at 14:58:00

New systems-on-chip pit jumped-up heldhelds against shrunken PCs

This week's Computex trade show in Taiwan has seen the opening shots in a new industry battlefield with the launch of Intel's Atom chip and Nvidia's Tegra system-on-a-chip....

Atom launched with new Acer ultramobile

Clive Akass — 2008-06-03T14:46:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 3 June 2008 at 14:46:00

Intel's new mobile processor powers impressive £199 "Eee PC killer"

Acer unveiled its much-anticipated Aspire One "Eee PC killer" ultra-mobile today in what was effectively also the UK launch of Intel's new Atom mobile processor....

ARM unveils 1080p HD mobile graphics unit

Clive Akass — 2008-06-02T14:31:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Monday 2 June 2008 at 14:31:00

Multi-core Mali-400 MP designed to bring desktop-class graphics to mobiles and set-top boxes

Chip designer ARM has announced a multi-core graphics processing unit (GPU) capable of allowing mobile devices to process full 1080p high-definition TV....

UK module opens up world of TV

Clive Akass — 2008-05-28T15:07:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 28 May 2008 at 15:07:00

$3 Mirics chipset can cope with a any radio or TV signal, analogue or digital

A UK company has unveiled a module for PCs and notebooks that can handle analogue and digital radio and TV signals of any frequency and modulation used by broadcasters anywhere...

O2 runs out of cut-price iPhones

Clive Akass — 2008-05-08T16:34:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 8 May 2008 at 16:34:00

Stock shortage after £100 price cut - but 16GB versdion still available.

O2 has run out of iPhones following last month's £100 price cut, which was widely seen as a bid to clear stocks before the rumoured release of a 3G version...

BT offers £11-a-month mobile access

Clive Akass — 2008-05-07T17:32:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 7 May 2008 at 17:32:00

It's GPRS, capped at 10Mbyte, but you get unlimited use of Openzone Wifi and a 'free' phone

BT is offering its broadband subscribers GPRS access on the move for an initial minimum £5 a month, rising to £11 after three months....

Patents deal aims to speed up 4g rollout

Clive Akass — 2008-04-16T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 16 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Licensing agreement by major manufacturers clears way for deployment of LTE mobile links

Major mobile equipment makers have agreed a patents deal to enable the rapid developing of Long Term Evolution (LTE), which looks likely to become the leading 4g wireless technology....

Stolen laptops scream with alarm

Clive Akass — 2008-04-09T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 9 April 2008 at 00:00:00

New USB device also locks data when disturbed

A new device to be shown at next week's Infosecurity show causes a laptop to scream if it is disturbed....

ARM 'more than a match for Atoms'

Clive Akass — 2008-04-03T00:00:00.000Z

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, Thursday 3 April 2008 at 00:00:00

We are 'toe to toe' on speed per MHz and better on battery drain, says chip designer

Chip designer ARM says processors using its cores can match Intel's new Atoms "toe to toe" on performance per megahertz and beat them on power efficiency....