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| Lenovo hired high profile Kutcher to enhance products |
10/31/2013 |
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Kutcher has a proven track record in tech investments, intends to offer advice on design and software for Yoga tablets. "Lenovo makes really, really, really good hardware," he said. "I hope to make their products as consumer friendly as possible."
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| Second electronic barge sighted in Portland |
10/30/2013 |
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"A floating data center makes more sense because it takes an enormous amount of energy to keep data centers cool. The company would save a lot of money if it could cool its servers with sea water rather than air conditioners, he said. The ocean would be like a “heat sink,”
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| Motorola to allow customers to design their own phone |
10/30/2013 |
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"Our goal is to drive a more thoughtful, expressive, and open relationship between users, developers, and their phones. To give you the power to decide what your phone does, how it looks, where and what it's made of, how much it costs, and how long you'll keep it,"
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| SK Hynix to produce more mobile DRAM |
10/30/2013 |
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“SK hynix will increase the portion of mobile DRAM chips to 40 percent by the end of next year from this year’s estimated 30 percent. They are more profitable than conventional memory chips.
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| Samsung aims to connect the world and your TV |
10/30/2013 |
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"Once these devices are connected, we hope to build one of the largest platforms in the world to deliver apps, services, and ads," David Eun, head of Samsung's Open Innovation Centre.
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| Intel to fab 14nm ARM processor for Altera |
10/29/2013 |
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Intel will fabricate starting in 2014 high-end Altera Stratix 10 parts that use four ARM Cortex-A53 cores. Altera says the Stratix 10 devices -- which will also have embedded DSPs and other logic -- will be its highest performance parts to date.
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| Apple profit sinks |
10/29/2013 |
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On Monday, Apple reported a profit of $7.5 billion for the fourth fiscal quarter, on revenue of $37.5 billion, down from earnings of $8.2 billion on $36 billion in revenue during the same period last year.
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| SD 3.0 card to gain momentum |
10/29/2013 |
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The maximum bandwidth SD 3.0, also known as UHS-I, offers a transfer speed of 104MB/s (much quicker than SD 2.0's 25MB/s), and a write speed that easily surpasses 10MB/s (equivalent to Class 10 level).
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| Group of experts found software bug on Toyota self-acceleration case |
10/28/2013 |
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The plaintiffs' attorneys closed their argument by saying that the electronics throttle control system caused the sudden acceleration of a 2005 Camry in a September 2007 accident that killed one woman and seriously injured another on an Oklahoma highway off-ramp. It wasn't loose floor mats, a sticky pedal, or driver error.
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| Microsoft profited regardless of PC slump |
10/28/2013 |
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Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter sales and profit yesterday that topped analysts’ average estimates (MSFT:US) on demand for Office programs and database servers.
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| Does Smart Watch failed to catch on? |
10/28/2013 |
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ALMOST A THIRD of Samsung's Galaxy Gear Smartwatches sold are being returned, a leaked document has revealed. In Samsung Galaxy Gear review we found that despite its premium design, the functions and settings it brings to users, especially the lack of social network integration don't really justify its hefty prices.
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| Inotera realized record profit |
10/25/2013 |
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The company would hit its target of boosting revenue contribution from memory chips for non-PC products to 65 percent of its total revenue at the end of this year.
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| Silicon super capacitors can store solar power |
10/25/2013 |
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Researchers found that supercapacitor plates manufactured in the new fashion were up to 40 times more energy-dense than those made out of the "naked" silicon, and achieved a performance that significantly improved on current commercial supercapacitors.
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| Cisco optimistic on Cloud traffic |
10/25/2013 |
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Cloud data centre traffic will represent 68 per cent of total data centre traffic by 2017, compared to 41 per cent in 2012. Consumer will represent 79 per cent of cloud data centre traffic by 2017, compared to 74 per cent in 2012.
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| IDC: PC shipment down in Asia |
10/25/2013 |
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"Sluggish economic activity, exchange rate volatility and fuel price hikes plagued markets in South East Asia, with Indonesia and Thailand bearing the brunt of this pressure,"
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| Challenges in 3D memory |
10/24/2013 |
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Memory vendors are looking to build up (as in layered or vertical/3D flash) to satisfy the demand for mass storage. The challenge is, when you layer, all the processing steps change.
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| Panasonic to scale back semiconductor |
10/24/2013 |
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Panasonic Corp dramatically cut back on chipmaking, slashing the business's 14,000-strong workforce by half and possibly selling some plants.
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| China tablet vendors to ship 240 million units |
10/24/2013 |
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The production value of China-based IC suppliers is likely to surpass the amount rolled out by rival makers in Taiwan in 2015, making China the second largest IC supplier around the globe trailing only after the US.
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| ARM Holding revenue rises |
10/23/2013 |
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ARM Holdings Plc (ARM) third-quarter revenue rose 27 percent on sales of its products that are used in Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone.
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| Smartphone to lose appeal to tablets |
10/23/2013 |
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"Continuing on the trend we saw last year, we expect this holiday season to be all about smaller tablets as even the long-term holiday favourite—the smartphone—loses its appeal."
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| SMIC enters 3D IC with dedicated R&D center |
10/23/2013 |
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By rolling out a centre dedicated to vision, sensors, and 3D IC, SMIC is hoping to let the world know of its ability to extend its manufacturing and R&D capabilities from CMOS front-end services to middle-end wafer process technologies.
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