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| Intel to announce 40 new server processors |
1/3/2012 |
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Intel is set to launch 40 new processors including those for its upcoming Romley platform, in the first half of 2012 with the company to release 20 models each quarter.
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| Amazon released holiday sales data |
12/29/2011 |
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Amazon customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers. And 2011 was the best holiday ever for the Kindle family, as customers purchased over 1 million Kindle devices each week.
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| Breakthroughs at UT can double solar efficiency |
12/28/2011 |
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"Plastic semiconductor solar cell production has great advantages, one of which is low cost. Combined with the vast capabilities for molecular design and synthesis, our discovery opens the door to an exciting new approach for solar energy conversion, leading to much higher efficiencies."
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| NTT Docomo JV with 5 others on Mobile chip development |
12/28/2011 |
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It reached a basic agreement with five companies— Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd., NEC Corp., Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.—to establish a fabless joint venture to develop and sell semiconductors for handsets and other mobile devices.
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| Amazon.com sales surged 15% |
12/28/2011 |
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For the most recent week ending December 18, led by four individual days surpassing $1 billion in sales, online retail spending reached an all-time record of $6.3 billion, up 14 percent from the corresponding week last year.
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| iTV will initially come with 32" and 37" screen |
12/28/2011 |
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Apple will launch both a 32-inch and 37-inch iTV this summer, which will presumably have all the features of the Apple TV integrated along with "the simplest user interface you could imagine."
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| Boston-Power raised funding on battery development |
12/27/2011 |
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Boston-Power has raised an additional $30 million in private equity. The investment follows Boston-Power's September 2011 announcement of $125 million in growth capital and Chinese government stimulus programs – comprising a combination of grants, low-interest loans and related financial and tax incentives.
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| iOS 5.05.1 jailbreak released |
12/27/2011 |
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The untether is only for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4 - CDMA, the first iPad, iPod touch 3G, and iPod touch 4G with iOS 5.0.1
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| Google to make its own Nexus Tablet |
12/27/2011 |
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Google’s potential launch of its own tablet could “cause conflict with branded PC vendors who are cooperating with Google to launch Ice Cream Sandwich-based tablet PCs in the first half of 2012”.
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| China Beidou offers mapping system alternate to GPS |
12/27/2011 |
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China has been working on the system since 2000 to provide an alternative to the US government-run Global Positioning System (GPS). The move should make China's military less dependent on foreign technology.
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| Rumor of Elpida/Nanya tie-up |
12/22/2011 |
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The report comes as Japan's last remaining player in the dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) market struggles with tumbling prices and loss of market share to South Korea's better-funded giants.
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| Micron endures second consecutive quarterly loss |
12/22/2011 |
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The memory chip vendor posted a net loss of $187 million, or 19 cents per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $135 million or 14 cents per share in the previous quarter and a net income of $155 million or 15 cents per share in the year ago quarter.
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| Smartphone buyer's guide |
12/22/2011 |
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Buy a smartphone today, and it will be out-of-date by tomorrow. That's how fast the smartphone market is changing. New models are being announced at a stunning rate.
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| Microsoft departing CES |
12/22/2011 |
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Big reveals and launches of major products will in the future be made at Microsoft-organized, Microsoft-specific events. Events that happen when Redmond says they should happen, and that make Microsoft products the star of the show.
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| Alliance to work on flash content protections |
12/21/2011 |
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The key thing is that the security be robust enough to protect HD content and will be realized through the use of a ID technology for flash memory die and copy protection based on public key encryption.
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| Android activation on the rise |
12/21/2011 |
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Google's Android platform is steadily climbing toward 1 million daily activations. There are currently more than 700,000 Android activations every day,
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| Chinese hacked into US Chamber of Commerce |
12/21/2011 |
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While it is unclear just how damaging the digital break-in was, it was clearly well-organized and may have had access to the chamber's computer system for six months.
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| ITC: Motorola phone violates Microsoft IP |
12/21/2011 |
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The patent that the ITC deemed Motorola in violation of pertains to the synchronization of calendars and scheduling of meetings across multiple devices.
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| Google to offer tablet compatitive to iPad |
12/20/2011 |
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Google has itself become a major hardware manufacturer via its $12.5bn acquisition Motorola’s devices division, which is currently under consideration by competition authorities. The deal would give it much more control over Android tablet development.
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| ITC ordered ban on some HTC phones |
12/20/2011 |
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The patent in question deals with data detection, enabling smartphone functions such as the ability to tap on a phone number or address contained in an email to immediately call the number or find the address on a map.
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