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| Yahoo returns to "most visited website" |
8/22/2013 |
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Yahoo received 196.6 million unique visitors last month, compared to 192.3 million for Google. This is the first time Yahoo has returned to the top spot for U.S. web traffic since May 2011.
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| New battery concept packs 3 times the energy |
8/22/2013 |
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Braff and his colleagues estimate that the membraneless flow battery may produce energy costing as little as $100 per kilowatt-hour—a goal that the U.S. Department of Energy has estimated would be economically attractive to utility companies.
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| Sony wants to regain its position in smartphone |
8/21/2013 |
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Over the past year, Sony has been stepping up its effort to become a major smartphone vendor. Even though the company is still a minor competitor in the U.S. mobile market, it has gained some ground in Japan and Europe.
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| Apple to launch iTunes Radio in September |
8/21/2013 |
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Apple iTunes Radio will launch in September with advertising from a number of global brands including McDonald’s, Pepsi, Nissan and Procter & Gamble, according to reports.
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| Zuckerberg declares free internet for the world |
8/21/2013 |
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The group — Internet.org — intends to make the Internet an option for the 5 billion people who don't have it. Presently, only about one-third of the world's population – 2.7 billion – has Internet access.
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| Foxconn might use 7-Eleven to market Mobile devices |
8/20/2013 |
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Foxconn may team up with 7-Eleven to make smartphones and tablets in the futureBoth Foxconn and President Chain Store, which operates 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan, announced that they could cooperate on such a venture.
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| ARM working on exceedingly low power processor |
8/20/2013 |
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Strategies for processing small amounts of data and transmitting small payloads for the IoT might differ depending on whether a node was powered or relied on energy scavenging from the local environment. A processor optimised for exceedingly low-power consumption that could wake up whenever enough energy had been harvested could be useful.
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| Facebook called for lower cost cold flash |
8/19/2013 |
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A relatively low endurance, poor performance chip would better server Facebook's need to store some 350 million new photos a day, said Jason Taylor, director of infrastructure at Facebook.
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| Supply control boosted DRAM profit |
8/19/2013 |
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DRAMeXchange has reported the average price for mainstream 4GB modules rose by 16% in the second quarter, from US$23.50 to US$27.25. DRAM manufacturers’ second quarter revenue broke records, increasing by 24% QoQ to US$8.53 billion for the highest quarterly revenue growth in three years.
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| iPhone lineup for this year |
8/19/2013 |
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"iPhone 5C" will actually be positioned as the company's mid-range device, not a low-end option as was previously rumored. Instead, the company's entry-level iPhone will be the iPhone 4S, he said.
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| Dell earnings fall |
8/16/2013 |
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After Dell's report came out, ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall advised shareholders to "take the money and run" in a research note that referred to a 1976 song by the Steve Miller Band.
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| Rumor: Nokia Win R/T phones are near |
8/16/2013 |
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Microsoft believes Windows RT 8.1 can rehabilitate the platform's image via UI refinements, improved native apps, access to Outlook and other enhancements.
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| IBM to put Flash modules in DIMM slots |
8/15/2013 |
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"I think you will see [flash in DIMM slots] hit the market in a bigger way in 2014," Kuhn said. "We'll be doing some work on that using Diablo [controllers] and own controller next year."
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| IBM inked B$ Cloud contract with DOI |
8/15/2013 |
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IBM will provide the DOI with cloud computing technologies and services, including data storage, secure file transfer, Web hosting, virtual machines, development testing and SAP application hosting.
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| DoComo promotes Sony smartphone instead of Samsung |
8/15/2013 |
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In comparison, the other phone of the summer, Samsung's S4 sold fewer than 700,000, compared to the Xperia A's 1.3m. DoCoMo had been hoping for sales of a million from the latest Galaxy mobe.
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| Micron/Elpida to layoff 1500 |
8/14/2013 |
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A Micron spokesman said the job cuts, announced internally last week, were not related to the Elpida transaction. Rather, they were about the company’s continuing search for greater efficiency.
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