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| TI got a jump start on next-gen Android |
10/20/2011 |
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Several months back, Google started working exclusively with the silicon vendor to optimize the next iteration of its mobile operating system, giving TI something of a two month lead on its competitors.
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| New ARM optimized for Android |
10/20/2011 |
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The chip company also announced plans to pair the A7 with the much larger and more powerful Cortex A15 in phones and tablets, using a technique called heterogeneous multiprocessing to dynamically move lighter workloads from the larger, more power-hungry A15 to the leaner A7 in order to extend mobile battery life.
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| Jailbroken for iOS5 |
10/20/2011 |
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You should prepare to free yourself from Apple's totalitarian walled garden of parody-free, sexless, family friendliness. Here are the best jailbreaking resources.
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| Sony's Vita game console focus on connectivity |
10/19/2011 |
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"In addition to the deep portfolio of games, you’ll also have access to native social applications – near and Party – that help you connect with your friends and fellow PS Vita owners." Tretton said. "We also recently announced that PS Vita will have your favorite social networking applications like Facebook, foursquare, Skype, and Twitter, so you can share and connect with friends."
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| Verizon to offer dual application system on Android phone |
10/19/2011 |
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Users of phones with the VMware product will find two profiles on their devices: one for personal use and one for business use. The setup allows for the isolation of enterprise apps from apps available on the open Android Market that could be malicious.
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| Grain of salt triple density on HDD |
10/18/2011 |
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By adding sodium chloride to the mix, it has been possible to get a single 10nm grain storing one bit. Replacing several 7nm grains with one 10nm saves a lot of space and therefore ups the storage density considerably.
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| Adobe slowly migrating its Apps into iOS |
10/18/2011 |
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Adobe is now slowly but surely starting to get the message and is releasing apps for Apple mobile devices. Case and point and Official Adobe Reader app for the iPhone and iPad.
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| RIM to compensate users and operators |
10/18/2011 |
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While RIM has tried to make it up to its customers with £60 worth of premium applications for consumers and free technical support for enterprise users,it is considering compensating the operators that were the first line of defence when its services went down for four days earlier this month.
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| Android 4.0 "Icecream Sandwich" to release today |
10/18/2011 |
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"Our goal with Ice Cream Sandwich is to deliver one operating system that works everywhere, regardless of device. Ice Cream Sandwich will bring everything you love about [the Honeycomb release of Android] on your tablet to your phone, including the holographic user interface, more multitasking, the new launcher, and richer widgets,"
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| Samsung continue to ramp Apple A6 processor |
10/17/2011 |
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Apple's continued reliance on Samsung's foundry operation, which is making A6 processors on a 28-nm CMOS process out of its wafer fab in Austin Texas, comes despite an increasingly litigious battle between the companies at the system level where both are seeking to prevent the sale of the others smart phones because of alleged patent infringements.
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| OS5 found conflict with Google Voice |
10/17/2011 |
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“After updating to iOS 5, the Google Voice app began to crash continuously. It received push notifications perfectly, but I was unable to open the app to see them because it would crash immediately upon opening, before even displaying any graphics.”
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| 4 millions iPhone 4S sold in the first 3 days |
10/17/2011 |
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Customers lined up outside stores in cities including Frankfurt, Tokyo, San Francisco and New York. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was among the first to get a handset at the store in Los Gatos, California.
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| Morris Chang gives dismal outlook for 2012 |
10/14/2011 |
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Chang is reported to have said. The U.S. economy will not recover until 2013 and the European nations' debt crisis is more serious and complicated than previously thought. As a result the semiconductor industry is going to face a slow recovery from its present, third quarter weakness.
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| IMEC: R-RAM won't take hold until 11nm |
10/14/2011 |
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SONOS flash has a vertical 8-layer stacked structure at 17-nm. The stacking could increase to 16 layers at 14-nm to 11-nm. Only after that would Resistive RAM (RRAM) enter the market when it would necessarily have to have a similarly stacked structure to allow it to compete.
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| Google's business model re-inforced |
10/14/2011 |
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Google CEO Larry Page said that the company had a great quarter and that its revenue had grown 32% year-on-year. "Google+ is now open to everyone and we just passed the 40 million user mark,"
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| Microsoft finally own Skype |
10/14/2011 |
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"We look forward to working with the Skype team to create new ways for people to stay connected to family, friends, clients and colleagues — anytime, anywhere."
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| Altera add ARM core synthesis on FPGA |
10/13/2011 |
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Altera Corp integrates 28-nm Cyclone V and Arria V FPGA fabric, a single- or dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, ECC (error correcting code) protected memory controllers, peripherals and high-bandwidth interconnect into a single chip.
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| Chevy Spark to go all electric on 2013 |
10/13/2011 |
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The biggest challenge to automakers now is convincing Americans to buy all-electric cars. According to a recent survey, a large majority of Americans won’t pay extra for an electric vehicle.
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| Apps enhanced through iOS5 release |
10/13/2011 |
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Apple released new versions of many of its iOS apps on Wednesday. Most of them bring support for some of iClouds features, but additional enhancements and improvements have been thrown into the mix as well.
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| Semiconductor packaging interrupted by flood |
10/12/2011 |
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Chip makers On Semiconductor Inc. and Microsemi Corp., as well as disk drive components supplier Hutchinson Technology Inc., were among companies that reported suspended operations at a Thai industrial park about 40 miles north of Bangkok.
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| Cray to build the fastest computer on planet |
10/12/2011 |
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Cray valued the multi-year contract at more than $97 million and said that Titan will be at least twice as fast and three times as energy efficient as today's fastest supercomputer, which is located in Japan.
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