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| Ford maps out 70m surroundings for self-driven car |
2/28/2014 |
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The trial vehicle uses a rotating Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) sensor located on the roof to scan the surroundings with a range of some 70m. The data generated are transformed in real-time into a virtual 3D map that contains all the objects detected in proximity to the vehicle.
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| Lenovo CEO Yang maps out turn-around for Motorola |
2/27/2014 |
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Yang said then the integration of Motorola and Lenovo's handset business would provide economies of scale and significantly slash material procurement cost as well as other expenses. However, this would take time to produce notable results, he said.
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| Tesla Model S elected Top Car of the Year |
2/27/2014 |
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Consumer Report praised the Tesla's (TSLA) "blistering acceleration, razor-sharp handling, compliant ride" as well as its roomy, flexible interior which can seat up to seven people, provided two are small children.
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| Qualcomm expands into 64bit and 8 core |
2/26/2014 |
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The eight-core Snapdragon 615 gives Qualcomm a leg up in an industry where most mobile chips are 32-bit capable and sport fewer cores. Increasing the number of cores in a chip is a way to increase performance without significantly increasing power consumption.
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| Samsung smart watch outshines competition at MWC |
2/26/2014 |
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The hardware features a 1.63in touch screen with 320x320 pixels, 1GHz dual-core processor with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage, Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy, and a 300mAh battery that's good for several days of use.
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| Nokia Android phone is now official |
2/26/2014 |
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Taglined "connecting the next billion to the Internet." The Nokia X, Nokia X+, and Nokia XL devices are priced between $122 and $150.
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| Mobile DRAM demand to grow |
2/25/2014 |
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Output value for the global mobile DRAM industry will start rising in the second quarter, . Upcoming rollouts of smartphones and tablets will stimulate demand for the memory
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| New TI micro-mirror increased brightness at lower power |
2/25/2014 |
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The 0.3in HD TRP chipset leverages TI's proprietary TRP DLP architecture and adaptive IntelliBright suite of algorithms to deliver higher brightness and lower power consumption than previous DLP Pico chipset architectures.
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| The rush to 64bit mobile processors is on |
2/25/2014 |
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The lack of a native 64bit operating system has certainly not slowed chip manufacturers from announcing 64bit mobile processors. Prior to MWC, Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm had announced 64bit mobile ARM processors.
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| Nokia alone cannot decide on adding Andriod systems |
2/24/2014 |
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Nokia is widely expected to launch a smartphone running Android, a break from its prior commitment to Microsoft and Windows Phone. It's an odd move considering the company's device unit is weeks away from being folded into the company.
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| Fujitsu to release 1Mbit FRAM memory |
2/24/2014 |
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The MB85RC1MT performs up to 10 trillion read and write cycles, and has the highest memory density among the company's products with an I2C serial interface
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| $25 smartphone to storm the emerging markets |
2/24/2014 |
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A $25 smartphone (at retail) would bring the smartphone experience to developing markets traditionally served by the ultra-low-cost segment. "Think of it as direct competition to the $20 Nokia 105 feature phone."
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| Squeezing environment-mapping technologies into a phone |
2/21/2014 |
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"What if you could capture the dimensions of your home simply by walking around with your phone before you went furniture shopping? What if directions to a new location didn't stop at the street address? What if you never again found yourself lost in a new building?"
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| Vietnam to accommodate technology investments |
2/21/2014 |
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The Techno Park is intended to direct Japanese businesses into Ho Chi Minh. An all-inclusive service will be provided to establish a pleasant environment for the investors.
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| Spanson and announce HyberBus automotive instrument interface |
2/20/2014 |
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Claiming that the new device is "the world's fastest" NOR flash memory, Spansion noted that its read throughput is up to 333MB/s, more than five times faster than an ordinary Quad SPI flash presently available. Spansion has also kept the pin number of HyperFlash NOR memory devices to 12, one-third the number in Parallel NOR flash. The initial read access time is 92ns.
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| New technique to enhance endurance of SSD |
2/20/2014 |
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Compression and deduplication techniques can be employed as well to minimize the number of writes to an SSD, thereby prolonging its life. In this case, inline deduplication and compression are also used to reduce overhead for highly repetitive SQL Server workloads.
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