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| Elpida to accept bids from financial backers |
3/20/2012 |
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Elpida plans to hold the first round of bidding before the end of this month and a second round next month, according to the report. Elpida hopes to complete its reconstruction and emerge from bankruptcy in July, according to the report.
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| Net Zero offers free broadband wireless teaser |
3/20/2012 |
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To sign up for its "free" plan, customers pay $50 for a wireless USB card and receive up to 200 megabytes per month, enough for e-mail and Web-surfing but insufficient for video streaming.
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| SMIC obtained funding for Beijing expansion |
3/19/2012 |
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The money comes from a consortium of banks led by the China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China. The loan is mainly intended to support expansion and technology development for SMIC's 300-mm wafer fab in Beijing.
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| Rumor: New Google Nexus to be at $199 |
3/19/2012 |
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Android and Me claims that an employee from a U.S. supply chain company says the rumored 7-inch tablet will cost $149, while The Verge claims to have sources that say it will be $199.
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| Trend goes to bigger display on smartphone |
3/19/2012 |
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The trend is clearly moving towards larger displays, which I think of as a good thing most of the time. The Nexus is mostly comfortable at 4.65-inches, and 4.5-inch displays are damn near perfect when it comes to a nice balance between mobile video/gaming and usability.
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| Apple to dispense its cash |
3/19/2012 |
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Apple Inc. is finally using its $98 billion cash hoard to reward shareholders, saying it's instituting both a dividend and share buyback program.
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| Rexchip change hand to affect global DRAM prices |
3/16/2012 |
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Not only will capacity utilization rate see a huge drop, yield rate will need time to improve as well. Such a situation would greatly benefit the current DRAM oversupply situation – commodity DRAM would have a chance to see balanced supply and demand in second half of 2012, and the possibility of DRAM price recovery would increase considerably.
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| Particle accelerator to be built in the Middle East |
3/16/2012 |
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When the electrons are accelerated they begin to radiate, and that radiation is then used for screening across a wide range of fields including pharmacology, physics, life sciences and archeology.
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| ISP's to police copyright downloads |
3/16/2012 |
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US Internet service providers (ISPs) will voluntarily begin serving as copyright police for the entertainment industry. The so-called “six-strikes” plan is said to be one of the most effective anti-piracy efforts ever established in the US.
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| Security issues at the Apple App Store |
3/16/2012 |
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Apple is under pressure to respond to calls from consumers and developers to tighten up the security of its App Store, after 'hundreds of complaints' were posted online, according to a report.
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| Robotic arm can repair satellite from Space Station |
3/15/2012 |
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In a statement, NASA said the Canadian Space Agency’s 12-foot (3.7-meter) Dextre robotic arm was able to repair an external space station module. The experiment demonstrated the ability to use robotic tools to refuel and repair orbiting satellites.
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| March DRAM prices up 6.38% |
3/14/2012 |
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According to the firm, the mainstream DDR3 2Gb chip had a contract price of US$1, up 6.38 percent from the end of February.
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| Dell purchased security company, SonicWall |
3/14/2012 |
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SonicWall makes devices and associated software such as firewalls that protect corporate networks from cyberattacks. Dell said that it would sell SonicWall's tools to large and small businesses and that it would add the technology to some of its other products.
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| IDC predicts Android tablet to overtake iPad 2016 |
3/14/2012 |
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Apple will continue to be the single biggest tablet maker on the market, Android, collectively, will continue to hold its own against it. But it will not be until 2016 — four years from now — that IDC thinks that Android shipments will outnumber those of iOS.
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| NAND will not fall like DRAM - at least not in immediate future |
3/13/2012 |
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NAND is less likely to suffer the same fate as DRAM because demand conditions still remain strong. According to Gartner, smartphone shipments are expected to rise by 35% to 630 million units this year. And by 2015, this figure is set to more than double, to 1.1 billion units.
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| Intel to provide pay TV service |
3/13/2012 |
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As proposed, the plan would let consumers get their shows on any Internet-connected device without subscribing to traditional cable and satellite TV services.
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| Yahoo sues Facebook |
3/13/2012 |
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Yahoo is seeking an unspecified amount of damages, and further requests that any such amount be tripled “in view of the willful and deliberate nature of the infringement.”
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| FAA to study rule setting for unmanned drones |
3/12/2012 |
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The FAA test sites will chiefly determine the altitudes at which drones will fly so they will not interfere with commercial air traffic as well as developing certification standards for the pilotless vehicles. Unmanned aircraft could begin taking off in the U.S. as early as 2015.
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| Apple having difficult time to match Samsung in China |
3/12/2012 |
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Samsung's line of smartphones has more than triple the market share the iPhone has in that country, nabbing 24.3 percent share, compared with Apple's 7.5 percent. Apple has been selling the iPhone through No. 3 carrier China Unicom since late 2009.
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