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| Spansion to close Kuala Lumpur assembly |
10/28/2011 |
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Spansion said the company would consolidate its test and assembly operations into a single site near Bangkok. About 660 jobs will be cut as the result of the closure of the Kuala Lumpur facility.
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| China hacked into US satellites |
10/28/2011 |
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“Access to a satellite‘s controls could allow an attacker to damage or destroy the satellite. An attacker could also deny or degrade as well as forge or otherwise manipulate the satellite’s transmission.”
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| Apple cooking voice controlled Apple TV |
10/28/2011 |
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your TV itself able to respond to your voice commands as well as connect to the Internet, it opens up a wide range of possibilities which are already hinted at by technology such as that seen in TiVo boxes suggesting other shows you might enjoy or recognizing content by factors other than just its title.
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| Whitman reversed HP decision to dump PC division |
10/28/2011 |
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In many respects, HP’s decision revolved around the fact it couldn’t afford to spin off the PC unit. The company wasn’t ready. When IBM sold its PC unit, the company had other divisions doing well and the computer business was hived off. HP’s PC business is too integrated to extract easily.
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| LSI to acquire SandForce |
10/27/2011 |
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LSI (Milpitas, Calif.) will pay about $322 million in cash¡ªnet of cash assumed from SandForce¡ªand assume about $48 million worth of unvested stock options and restricted shares held by SandForce employees
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| Android phone outsells iOS in Asia |
10/27/2011 |
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Android will represent 52 percent of smartphones sold in Asian markets, up from 16 percent last year. (Combined with the 56 percent increase in Asian smartphone sales that ABI reported, that means a stunning five times as many Asian Android phones sold in 2011 as in 2010.)
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| HTC 4G Windows phone for $99 with 2 years T-Mobil contract |
10/27/2011 |
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T-Mobile, meanwhile, is marketing the device as having 4G speeds, but the provider does not yet have a true 4G LTE experience like that offered by Verizon and AT&T. T-Mobile does, however, offer HSPA+ 21, which PCMag found to be "speedy" in its annual fastest mobile networks test, but not as fast as those LTE options.
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| DRAMexchange predicts Flash volume to increase |
10/26/2011 |
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According to DRAMeXchange, smart phones and tablet devices will be the main growth driver for NAND flash, which serves as the basis for memory cards inserted into these devices. Next year, shipments of smart phones may reach 600 million units, up 40 percent from this year.
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| Nvidia's quad-core processor in Asustek tablets |
10/26/2011 |
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The Asus Transformer Prime tablet, announced on stage at the AsiaD Conference in Hong Kong last week will purportedly boast 14.5 hours of battery life and include both USB and mini-HDMI ports as well as an SD card reader. It will be the first device to boast Nvidia’s Kal-El chip,
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| Apple TV -next hot consumer product? |
10/26/2011 |
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Apple TV set "would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud," adding: "It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it."
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| IBM appoints Virginia Rometty as CEO |
10/26/2011 |
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IBM will be buying back another $7 billion worth of its stock and has declared a dividend. That $7 billion in additional buyback is on top of the $5.2 billion that IBM had announced it would buy back at the end of September.
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| $25 ARM proto board promotes computer study |
10/25/2011 |
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The Raspberry Pi has been developed by a UK-based foundation that aims to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing.
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| Home thermostat connects to your iPhone |
10/25/2011 |
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The Learning Thermostat can be networked via WiFi, so people can program them from an iOS or Android device. If you have multiple thermostats, they can be controlled as a group since they're networked.
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| Netflix's movie streaming losing momentum |
10/25/2011 |
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The company faces rising content costs, a customer revolt over a price increase and startup costs as it expands into Latin America, followed by the U.K. and Ireland in early 2012.
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| Book to Bill ratio retreats |
10/24/2011 |
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The book to bill ratio for North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers—the three-month average ratio of bookings to billings—declined to 0.75 in September, its lowest level since May 2009, according to the trade group SEMI.
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| AT&T heads back to court today on T-Mobile merger |
10/24/2011 |
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The Department of Justice sued to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger in late August on the grounds that it was anticompetitive. Sprint and C Spire, formerly know as Cellular South, filed their own suits shortly thereafter.
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| Google Apps ramping up rapidly |
10/24/2011 |
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Google's Android Market has seen tremendous growth over the past two years and now holds 500,000 apps, however Apple's App Store still leads in total number of apps, with 600,000 available.
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| Rambus/Hynix case enters into climax |
10/21/2011 |
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Rambus thinks it could have earned $3.95 billion in royalties without the alleged conspiracy. Under California law, a jury finding of damages in that amount would be automatically tripled to $11.9 billion.
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| OCZ unveils 1-Tbyte SSD |
10/21/2011 |
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The new Octane drives are not only the first 2.5" SSDs in the industry to provide up to 1TB of storage, but they also combine high-speed data transfer rates with record-breaking access times amid sufficient input/output [IOPS] throughput.
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| Micron to secure long term memory supply for customer |
10/20/2011 |
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Customers in the automotive, industrial, medical and networking fields are willing to pay high prices to secure sufficient supplies of embedded memory solutions used in their products. The program is to guarantee a stable product supply from Micron.
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