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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Buy a smartphone today, and it will be out-of-date by tomorrow.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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| Renesas offers embedded mobile flash |
12/19/2011 |
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The technology offers 20 years of data retention and progam-erase endurance of 125,000 cycles, Renesas said. The memory is based on MONOS (metal oxide nitride oxide silicon) technology.
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| ST put contactless die test on wafer |
12/19/2011 |
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Conventional a probe card connected to automatic test equipment (ATE) makes contact with the bond pads on each die in turn and runs a series of tests. Under EMWS each die contains an antenna and the ATE supplies power and communicates with the IC wirelessly.
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| JEDEC ready to release 3D memory stack IC standard |
12/19/2011 |
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The industry consensus is that LPDDR2 will run out of bandwidth before WideIO memories are commercially available. LPDDR3 (which is a linear evolution of LPDDR2) is expected to fill this gap by supporting higher operating frequencies while maintaining power efficiencies of LPDDR2. The 800MHz LPDDR3 will feature 50% more bandwidth than a 533MHz LPDRR2 while retaining the equivalent pin count as LPDRR2.
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| $300 Million infusion to boost Twitter's status |
12/19/2011 |
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By limiting its shareholders to a small group of private investors, Twitter doesn't have to disclose how much revenue it brings in. The research firm eMarketer estimates Twitter will generate close to $140 million in ad revenue this year and $260 million in 2012.
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| Freescale adopts Macronix Flash chip |
12/16/2011 |
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Macronix International has announced a collaboration with Freescale Semiconductor, and its Qorivva MPC5645S MCU, which provides a cost-effective and powerful platform for high-resolution color graphics and analog functions for the automotive dashboard displays market.
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| PTI to invest in Logic/IC Test company |
12/16/2011 |
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Powertech Technology (PTI), a Taiwan-based provider of DRAM packaging/testing services, plans to acquire common shares in Greatek Electronics
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| Apple to launch 7.85-inch iPad in 2012, |
12/16/2011 |
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Apple is likely to launch a 7.85-inch iPad prior to the fourth quarter of 2012 in addition to a new iPad scheduled to be released at the end of the first quarter.
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| Renesas develops 40-nm flash memory |
12/15/2011 |
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Renesas Electronics has said it has developed a 40-nm embedded flash memory intellectual property for implementation at 40-nm and use in automotive applications.
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