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| Ultrabook prices to drop below $700 |
4/12/2012 |
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Ultrabooks, currently priced at $800 and higher, will dip below $700 in price in time for this summer's back-to-school buying season, according to PCWorld.
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| Sony wrist watch displays Android phone data |
4/12/2012 |
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Sony today launched its SmartWatch, a timepiece for the wrist that allows users to read text messages, social updates and e-mail, manage calls, and control music. In order for the SmartWatch to deliver its functionality, the device connects to an Android-based handset via Bluetooth.
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| Trade Gap narrows |
4/12/2012 |
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The gap shrank 12 percent to $46 billion, the smallest since October, from a revised $52.5 billion in January, the Commerce Department in Washington said today.
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| Graphene is also good for heat spreader |
4/11/2012 |
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By fabricated heat spreaders from a unique copper-graphene composite and connecting it to microchips using an indium-graphene interface film, heat is dissipated 25 percent faster than with the pure copper heat spreaders used today.
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| Analyst view possible outcome of Elpida |
4/11/2012 |
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Outcome would be positive for the DRAM market as the acquirer would have to transition production facilities to a common technology platform effectively constraining output for nine to 12 months.
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| FCC and Carriers to disable stolen phones |
4/11/2012 |
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That would discourage the theft of cellphones by rendering them useless once reported stolen. They hope to create a national database of stolen cellphones in coordination with law enforcement bodies across the country, allowing carriers to disable voice and data services on stolen phones altogether.
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| Nokia/Microsoft to provide first PayPass phone |
4/11/2012 |
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The Lumia 610 will be the first Windows Phone handset to let users pay for goods on the go via NFC. The phone has already been certified for use with both MasterCard's PayPass and Visa PayWave, according to Nokia.
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| New hacking technology can take down power grids |
4/10/2012 |
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Even if the country, or individual businesses spent a great deal of money to secure the power infrastructure, it would still be open to compromise, and that it was thus up to every individual to determine how much money they wanted to spend on trying to plug up the security holes.
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| Microsoft to retire XP |
4/10/2012 |
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"If your organization has not started the migration to a modern PC, you are late," Microsoft said, citing data that claimed OS migration programs in businesses take between 18 and 32 months to complete.
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| Japanese out - Chinese are in on bidding for Elpida |
4/9/2012 |
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Chinese investment firm Hony Capital is teaming up with U.S. private equity firm TPG to bid for Elpida Memory Inc., the DRAM maker that filed for bankruptcy protection in February, according to reports.
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| Sony to cut 10,000 jobs |
4/9/2012 |
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Sony Corp. (6758), the Japanese electronics maker that has forecast a fourth straight annual loss, will slash about 10,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its workforce, the Nikkei newspaper reported on its website.
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| Target identification software pin-points pirate boats |
4/9/2012 |
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"The automatic target recognition software gives Fire Scout the ability to distinguish target boats in congested coastal waters using LADAR (laser-radar), and it sends that information to human operators, who can then analyze those vessels in a 3-D picture."
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| Google position to try again with 7" Co-brand Tablet |
4/9/2012 |
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Two and a half years later, Google is doing it again—this time with a tablet PC. This first one will be a co-branded (with Asustek Computer of Taiwan) Android device that is expected to become available near the end of this summer—late July or August.
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| Apacer report increase sales of high-margin memory product |
4/5/2012 |
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Apacer Technology, which has moved to diversify away from its standard memory module business, saw sales of its solid state drives (SSD) and high-end industrial memory modules that come with higher ASPs increase more than 30% in 2011, according to the company.
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| Google build Taiwan Data center |
4/4/2012 |
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Google said it have started building one of its three planned data centres in Asia to meet fast growing online demand from the region.
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| Yahoo to axe 2000 jobs |
4/4/2012 |
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Yahoo Inc is laying off 2000 employees, it said on Wednesday, signaling a broad shakeup of the company.
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| Nanya, Inotera March revenues slides |
4/3/2012 |
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Nanya Technology and Inotera Memories have reported decreases in March 2012 revenues from the previous month of 8% and 2.7%, respectively.
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| Sony eye top spot for TV market |
4/2/2012 |
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Sony is increasing the proportion of connected TVs in its LCD TV shipments, with aims to take a 60% share of the segment worldwide in 2012.
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