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| Beyond Semi offers royalty-free processor core |
1/30/2013 |
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Beyond Semi (Ljubljana, Slovenia) classes the BA25 as roughly equivalent to an ARM Cortex-A7 or Cortex-A8 and is pitching the core at Linux and Android applications. The core includes an optional floating point unit.
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| Google takes new path to cellphone camera |
1/30/2013 |
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Patent 8,363,157, granted yesterday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, documents how LED lighting could be used to give a mobile device the ability to fire with multiple flashes.
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| FaceBook on way to recover capital value |
1/30/2013 |
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Analysts at Deutsche Bank reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Facebook in a research note to investors on Tuesday. Separately, analysts at Bank of America reiterated a “buy” rating on shares of Facebook in a research note to investors on Monday. Finally, analysts at JPMorgan Chase reiterated an “overweight” rating on shares of Facebook.
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| DFT - very important for 3D stack testing |
1/30/2013 |
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The solution implemented by Cadence and imec includes the generation of DRAM test control signals in the logic die and the inclusion of the DRAM boundary scan registers in the serial and parallel test access mechanisms (TAMs) of the 3D test architecture.
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| Watch out ! Drones are getting sharper eyes |
1/29/2013 |
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The camera can capture images at 20,000 feet with a resolution of 1.8 gigapixels — so high-res in fact, that you can see what color shirt a pedestrian is wearing.
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| Google Map image of North Korea |
1/29/2013 |
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With the help of "citizen cartographers," Google Maps has filled in some of North Korea's streets and prison camps. The WSJ's Evan Ramstad gives a preview of some places the world's most reclusive nation would rather keep a secret.
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| Jailbroken iOS6 now available |
1/29/2013 |
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The latest version of Redsn0w supports only older iDevices with an A4 chip or earlier. That means it'll work on devices like the iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and 4th-gen iPod Touch but not on the iPhone 5 or the latest iPads or Touches.
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| China's Wuhan Xinxin appoints new CEO to grow company |
1/28/2013 |
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Yang had previously held positions as chief technology officer and senior vice president of operations for Chartered Semiconductor (Singapore), which is now part of Globalfoundries Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.). He also worked at Intel for many years where his last position was as senior director of logic technology development.
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| Belkin/Linsys merger to enhance home auotmations |
1/28/2013 |
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"It is the ability to assign priorities to different data flows, so that gaming and video traffic are given priority over downloads]. Where do those things come together? We think the ultimate outcome of putting the two companies together will be ‘one plus one equals three.’”
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| Illegal to unlock your cellphone? |
1/28/2013 |
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In 2006 and again in 2010, the Library of Congress approved an exemption to the act that allowed the circumvention of technology that confined wireless handsets to different networks. Carriers fought to remove this exemption, and the Library of Congress chose not to renew it in October.
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| China to reverse 12 years ban on video games |
1/28/2013 |
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The Ministry of Culture is currently discussing with different departments regarding probably end to close the ban. A Tokyo based analyst Mr.Mitsuo Shimzu of investors’ square measure hospital gives a statement that it can open a replacement as it provides a large market place for manufacturing video games.
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| AMD sets in motion for a comeback |
1/25/2013 |
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The company's goal is to reduce its operating expenses by 25 percent from early 2012 levels by the third quarter, and to return to profitability and positive cash flow by the second half of this year.
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| Lenovo eyeing on RIM |
1/25/2013 |
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A sale to a Chinese firm would be even more controversial, and could fall foul of the Investment Canada Act, which gives the government the authority to kill deals that could harm Canadian interests or threaten national security.
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| Major outage on U-verse restored |
1/25/2013 |
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The outage was related to a software upgrade, Edmonds said, saying the problem was fixed by AT&T engineers Thursday morning. The service outage did not affect AT&T's landline or wireless service subscribers.
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| Nokia returns to profit |
1/25/2013 |
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“I still think it is far from a certainty that this turnaround will be a success,”
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| Tower want to take over Micron Israel fab |
1/24/2013 |
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The fab was built by Intel in 1999 as a production site for Pentium processors. In 2008 it transferred to Numonyx NV, a joint venture between Intel and STMicroelectronics focused on flash memory. The fab transferred to the ownership of Micron when Micron acquired Numonyx in 2010.
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| Apple stock sinks |
1/24/2013 |
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Apple Inc. shares lost ground in premarket trading on Thursday, while shares of Netflix Inc. rose. Apple, Netflix and Research in Motion Ltd. were among the top tickers trending.
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| Boeing 787 Deramliner battery charger scrutinized |
1/23/2013 |
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The charger in question, the Boeing 787 BCU (schematic pictured above), uses advanced DC to DC conversion technology, patented charging algorithms, comprehensive diagnostics and fault isolation to charge the APU battery, according to company literature.
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| New Galaxy S3 Mini to include NFC |
1/23/2013 |
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Samsung's implementation of NFC uses the company's S Beam software to transfer files of up to 10MB easily from one device to another.
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| Intel to part desktop motherboard business |
1/23/2013 |
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The company plans to completely shut down its desktop mainboards business in three years’ time and will cease development of any new solutions later this year.
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| Apple at a cross road in smartphone market |
1/23/2013 |
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Make the majority of the profits in the market by providing top end handsets and software at premium prices. The other strategy would be to continue to make the high end sets but also enter the market in that low end.
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