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| U.S. wholesale rebounced |
11/13/2014 |
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U.S. wholesale businesses posted a modest gain in their stockpiles in September as sales rebounded from a big decline the previous month.
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| BlackBerry longs to return to black |
11/13/2014 |
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BlackBerry CEO John Chen said he met with Xiaomi's CEO Lei Jun and Lenovo's head Yang Yuanqing during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit in Beijing. Aside from the two, Chen also made contact with Cher Wang, chairwoman of Taoyuan, Taiwan-based HTC.
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| Mesh networking borrows connection from nearby handset |
11/13/2014 |
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The technology, an implementation of a technique known as mesh networking, enables a phone with a poor data signal to borrow the connection of a nearby handset with a stronger signal by linking with it over Wi-Fi.
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| Startup Adesto is on 1.2V resistive memory |
11/12/2014 |
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Adesto technology could disrupt other forms of memory such as flash, which is ubiquitous in mobile devices. It can use a lot less energy without sacrificing performance.
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| NAND business - Good business |
11/12/2014 |
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In terms of revenue growth, Toshiba outperformed its peers in the third quarter, DRAMeXchange indicated. Toshiba saw its NAND flash shipments increase more than 25% sequentially in the third quarter leading to a 23.7% rise in revenues during the quarter.
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| Google secured prime land for SPACE center |
11/12/2014 |
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Google subsidiary called Planetary Ventures LLC will use the hangars for "research, development, assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration, aviation, rover/robotics and other emerging technologies.
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| Silego offers glue logic consolidation FPGA |
11/11/2014 |
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One of the things that Sileo has done really well is to create an intuitive, easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) interface that allows you to play "what-if" games with different configuration scenarios, including defining input stimulus and simulating the way in which the GPAK will behave.
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| Smart battery turns your smoke alarm into IoT |
11/11/2014 |
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The battery lets any existing smoke alarm connect to a home WiFi network so it can alert the owner’s smartphone if the alarm goes off. Its smart power management will also eliminate 3am wake up calls from an alarm with a dying battery.
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| Obama want tighter control on ISP's |
11/11/2014 |
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"For almost a century, our law has recognized that companies who connect you to the world have special obligations not to exploit the monopoly they enjoy over access in and out of your home or business," Obama said.
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| Nvidia break expectations |
11/10/2014 |
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Revenue in the fiscal third-quarter ended Oct. 26 was $1.225 billion, up 16 percent from the year-ago quarter, compared with analysts' average estimate of $1.202 billion.
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| TI to place 300mm bumping in Chengdo, China |
11/10/2014 |
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TI is using a second shell that came with the Chengdu site TI purchased back in 2010. The facility, remaining still as a shell today, is scheduled to begin production in early 2016.
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| Chinese company in talk to acquire Stats ChipPac |
11/7/2014 |
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The purchase of Stats ChipPac, the world’s fourth-largest provider of chip packaging and testing, would add to the $26 billion of semiconductor deals in the past year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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| Qualcomm stock fell after missing estimate |
11/7/2014 |
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Excluding items, adjusted earnings for the quarter were $1.26 per share, compared with $1.05 per share a year ago. On average, 28 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters estimated earnings of $1.31 per share for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items.
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| U.S. unemployment fell |
11/7/2014 |
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Employers have added an average of 227,000 jobs a month in 2014, up from an average of 194,000 last year. Over the past 12 months, they have added 2.64 million jobs, the best showing since April 2006. The unemployment rate has fallen to 5.9 percent, a six-year low.
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| U.S. worker productivity increased |
11/7/2014 |
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Productivity, the amount of output per hour of work, rose at a 2 percent annual rate in the third quarter after a 2.9 percent gain in the second quarter, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
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| NXP offers Smart Home Kit in China |
11/6/2014 |
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With a quick touch of a smartphone screen people can connect with a router, mobile payment platform, power plug, wireless switch, lighting, sensors or wireless network IP-camera.
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| TI applys DLP technology to hi-res 3D printing |
11/6/2014 |
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The DLP9000 offers four million pixels, or a 2560-by-1600 micromirror array. It can be used to build large, advanced resolution objects in 3D printing and scan larger objects at longer throw distances. For cost-sensitive applications, the DLP6500 offers up to two million pixels, or a 1920-by-1080 (1080p) micromirror array.
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| Qualcomm filed license payment claims in China |
11/6/2014 |
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Qualcomm believes 1.3 billion handsets were sold with its chips this year and 1.5 billion will be sold next year. But handset makers are on track only to report sales of 1.04 to 1.13 billion devices this year, leaving a gap of 170 to 260 million devices unreported.
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| New lithium-ion battery is game changer in EV |
11/5/2014 |
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The new component, Hu said, can safely operate at a wide range of temperatures, does not need the costly cooling systems and is about 20 per cent less expensive than current generation batteries.
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