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| Microsoft Surface 2, a hope for better success |
9/24/2013 |
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But it faces a big hurdle in getting consumers to look at its newest products differently from their predecessors. As much as Microsoft has tried to make Surface seem cool, it's still largely seen as a tablet for business users.
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| BlackBerry has an interested buyer |
9/24/2013 |
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Going private removes the burden of pleasing shareholders with short-term results, just as Michael Dell hopes to do with Dell Inc. Fairfax is known for patience in its investments, which would give BlackBerry time to regroup.
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| Major semi-equipment providers to merge |
9/24/2013 |
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Applied Materials led the market in 2012 with about $5.51 billion in sales and 14.4 percent market share. Tokyo Electron was third, with $4.22 billion in sales and 11.1 percent share.
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| BlackBerry stops BBM for Android rollout |
9/23/2013 |
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"Our teams continue to work around the clock to bring BBM to Android and iPhone, but only when it’s ready and we know it will live up to your expectations of BBM," said BlackBerry's Luke Reimer.
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| New 450mm fabs to be built Upstate NY |
9/23/2013 |
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Each wafer fab would have approximately 450,000 square feet of cleanroom space after between $10 billion and $15 billion of private and public money had been spent. Such a build-out would create about 5,000 direct jobs and 15,000 indirect jobs.
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| Agilent to split into two companies |
9/20/2013 |
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The $3.9 billion group that will retain the Agilent name -- will focus on life science instruments and will consider moving into related markets such as gene sequencing. The remaining $2.9 billion group -- yet to be named -- will carry on the traditional test and measurement business.
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| STT-MRAM drives into new life |
9/20/2013 |
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Potential applications for STT-MRAM are in the areas of MCUs, storage controller buffers, and later on, low-level cache with high-speed perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
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| Predicting the DDR4 DRAM maket |
9/19/2013 |
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Just like in case of transition from DDR2 to DDR3, the transition from the latter to DDR4 will take a rather long time. This time, however, it could be even longer than originally expected due to condition of the DRAM market.
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| Energy Department to auction off Fisker loan |
9/19/2013 |
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Fisker had received $192 million before the loan was frozen. The DOE says it has recouped about $28 million since then; the auction will allow the government to collect as much of the remaining $168 million as possible.
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| White House directs FCC to unlock all cell phones |
9/18/2013 |
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“Americans should be able to use their mobile devices on whatever networks they choose and have their devices unlocked without hassle,” said Lawrence Strickling, assistant secretary of the NTIA.
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| iOS7 due today |
9/18/2013 |
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The new software not only brings a completely overhauled design but also a host of new features. All the apps have been redesigned.
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| Nexus 4 smartphone sold out |
9/18/2013 |
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The listings for the 8GB and 16GB Nexus 4 smartphones on Google Play are currently accompanied by a note that says: "We are out of inventory. Please check back soon."
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| DRAM prices up 30% after SK Hynix fire |
9/18/2013 |
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The spot prices for 2Gb DDR3 chips have surged to US$2.20 recently compared to US$1.50 prior to the outbreak of the fire, while those for 4Gb DDR3 ones have rallied to US$4.20, the sources indicated.
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| New plastic memory fit for retail labelling |
9/17/2013 |
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The pilot production line will make anti-counterfeit, printed plastic, 4-bit memory labels and will be part of a push on offering brand protection technology in 2014.
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| Potentials of Cloud Smartphone |
9/17/2013 |
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A new crop of "cloud" smartphone operating systems are in the works and they offer many advantages like tons of apps and affordatble phones.
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| HTC to trim some US workforce |
9/17/2013 |
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The move was to “to streamline and optimize our organization and improve efficiencies after several years of aggressive growth.”
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| New alloy to enhance PCM memory |
9/17/2013 |
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Researchers discovered that Al50Sb50, in particular, has three distinct levels of resistance—and thus the ability to store three bits of data in a single memory cell, instead of just two. This suggests that this material can be used for multi-level data storage.
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| Apple to access China Mobil |
9/16/2013 |
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Landing this deal is a milestone for Apple since more than half of the estimated 1.2 billion mobile subscribers in the country are registered under China Mobile.
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