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...Mobile gaming was a particular beneficiary, but it was a general screen-time heyday for consoles and PCs, and for enticing new gamers into the fold....
...Part of the urgency for all of these tech companies to rush into the metaverse is that we've really kind of reached a bit of a plateau in the current generation of technology with the smartphone, and the PC...
...Yet even now, VR players still only account for 2 per cent of PC gamers on Steam. Why does uptake remain slow?...
...Its success in mobile phones and PCs, which at one point seemed highly probable, turned out to be wholly elusive....
...He benefited from Liu’s acquisition of US industry pioneer IBM’s PC business in 2004 and then went on to build the Chinese company from the third-largest maker in the world to the industry leader....
...Their father trained as an electrical engineer, working for PC maker Dell’s Irish operations, before buying a lakeside hotel....
...Sony’s machine is, underneath all the trappings, a specialist gaming PC whose cost has been distilled to fall within the budgetary reach of an ordinary household....
...Just as Windows and Android were the gateways for software to become available on PCs and smartphones, Mr Shi says that the operating system will be the car's internet link, and all “apps” will have to be...
...“Owning a gateway is more valuable than owning the content which goes through it,” a senior Tencent executive reportedly said....
...It did not just have the ear of the sitting prime minister, it was also the gateway through which all leaders were expected to pass on their way to the top....
...Mass movement Stephen Lake, Thalmic Labs’ chief executive, says presentations will be a “gateway” reason for the mass market to buy Myo — not just the geeks who want to click their fingers to turn lights...
...So too have content producers: video streaming company Letv launched smartphones based on the principle of hardware being a “gateway” to content....
...Oculus said this week that the combined cost of its first Rift headset and a PC to power it was about $1,500....
...The Browser Wars once played a central part in the fight for control of the gateways to cyberspace....
...There is possibility that the marketing format, well implemented on PCs, may need adjustments on mobile....
...The merger of PC maker Lenovo and Motorola completed the same day, however, surpassed Xiaomi’s totals....
...Its aim is to teach the basics of coding in just one hour and act as a gateway to a more sophisticated education that is ultimately better experienced with a full physical keyboard....
...Prosper’s president, Ron Suber, describes P2P platforms as a technology solution for the banks themselves – likening platforms to the microprocessors at the heart of the fastest PCs....
...Dedicated software from companies such as Centrix Software filters employee access through a gateway....
...seeing a reversal of trend in the device space; consumers are delaying handset upgrades and pushing phone replacements into 2014, low-cost basic tablets are taking market share from premium tablets and PC...
...The dirty secret that the security professionals can no longer keep to themselves is that their old defences – which were aimed at protecting PCs and other devices that comprise the endpoints of computer...
...Having built his business by undercutting the IBM PC industry, it now faced the same threat itself from new rivals such as Gateway....
...Intel said it would focus on media processor chips for gateway and Internet Protocol set-top boxes instead....
...New table PCs were also being featured (pictured) and advances in “perceptual” computing....
...Unlike a PC, where the biggest risk lies in losing data, a cyber attack on a car could result in the loss of life....
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