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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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| 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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