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Intel’s upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their “Ivy Bridge” predecessors, Intel said on Thursday. Haswell chips were designed with laptops and tablets in mind, and the main focus was on lowering power consumption,...

Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their "Ivy Bridge" predecessors, Intel said on Thursday.

Contrasting fortunes

PC sales in China and high growth in smartphones shipments helped boost Lenovo's net profit for its fiscal fourth quarter by 90 percent year-over-year. For the quarter ended March 31, Lenovo's net profit was US$127 million, the company said on Thursday. Revenue broke records and was at $7.8...

Hewlett-Packard reported a 32 percent drop in profit for its second fiscal quarter, due partly to slower sales of PCs and servers. HP's revenue for the quarter, ended April 30, was $27.6 billion, down 10 percent from the same period last year, the company announced Wednesday. The company is...

HP just posted its Q2 financial report, and despite somber news of falling profits and revenue, the company managed to beat consensus estimates and the stock has jumped more than 10 percent in after-hours trading. As for concrete figures, HP pulled in $1.1 billion in profit, which is down 32...

Google has updated the stable version of Chrome to version 27. On top of the usual bug and security flaw fixes, the new version is claimed to load webpages about 5 percent faster on average. Finding a 5 percent improvement in a browser that's already fast is no mean feat. The better performance...

Samsung says it will have no involvement whatsoever in the Korean handset maker's business operations. [Read more]

The latest release of Chrome, version 27, is 5 percent faster—and available to download now . Read more...

Hang around these pages long enough and you're bound to come across Pantech , the South Korean purveyor of everything from giant 1080p handsets down to... giant 720p handsets . Samsung has noticed this rising star too and, so says Yonhap News , has now made a $50 million investment in the smaller...