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| Apple likely to pull A6 production out of Samsung |
6/27/2011 |
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Apple is rumored to further distance itself from its rival Samsung starting with the "A6" chip in 2012, when the iPhone maker will allegedly transition production of its custom ARM chips to a new chipmaker.
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| Micron stock drop after hour on financial results |
6/24/2011 |
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Micron Technology Inc. Thursday (June 23) reported sales for its fiscal third quarter that fell below analysts' expectations as the company posted sequential declines in revenue in both DRAM and NAND flash memory.
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| Apple takes Samsung to Korean courts |
6/24/2011 |
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Apple filed the suit in the Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday. Since details on Apple's claims were not made public, the company's lawsuit could be entirely new or relate to the earlier suit it launched against Samsung.
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| Judge: Apple does not own the term "App Store" |
6/24/2011 |
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The term "App Store" is about as generic as they come, unless you count toy store, pet store or cake store, so we prefer Amazon's response, which at least gives users a little credit.
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| Never take bad photograph again |
6/23/2011 |
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A new camera from Lytro allows you to shoot first and focus later. The company is planning a 'light field' camera that will allow you to switch around the focusing on an image to get it just the way you want.
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| Patent reform bill arriving at Congress |
6/22/2011 |
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote as early as Wednesday (June 22) on a broad patent reform bill. The vote could be the last big step in a six-year effort to enact patent reform, an area not addressed by Congress since before the invention of the microprocessor.
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| Verizon can't afford unlimited data plan either |
6/22/2011 |
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Starting July 7, a basic 2 GB plan will cost $30 per month, compared to $25 on AT&T. Verizon will reportedly offer more expensive tiers for people who want more data, including 5 GB for $50 per month and 10 GB for $80 per month. Overages will cost $10 per GB.
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| Nokia to contract Symbian services to Accenture |
6/22/2011 |
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Accenture will handle Symbian software development and support for Nokia through 2016. As part of the arrangement, Nokia is transferring approximately 2,800 employees in the U.S., Finland, the U.K., and other countries to the outsourcing firm.
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| Samsung/Spansion settles |
6/21/2011 |
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will pay NOR flash memory vendor Spansion Inc. $150 million over five years as part of a seven-year patent cross licensing agreement that settles all ongoing litigation between the two companies, Spansion said Monday
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| IM Flash to expand Utah operations |
6/21/2011 |
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IM Flash plans to add the 200 new employees starting in 2012 while maintaining its current staff levels of more than 1,400 employees, according to the statement.
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| Teenage LulzSec found and caught |
6/21/2011 |
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British police said intelligence led them to arrest the 19-year-old at a home in Wickford, Essex, over the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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| TI to build small cell base station chip set |
6/20/2011 |
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While the share of small cell base stations remains negligible, “it will grow to be roughly 20 percent of the overall base station market in the next three to five years,” predicted TI’s Glinsman.
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| China Huawei joins in tablet race |
6/20/2011 |
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"We believe we can enter into the top five vendors in the global handset market over the next three years," Xu said. The firm had said in April it expects revenue to reach the $100 billion mark in a decade, driven by sales of telecom devices and smartphones.
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| Apple/Samsung battle heats up in court |
6/20/2011 |
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In addition to adding claims of specific infringement, Apple strengthened language throughout its filingthat making specific reference to Samsung's clear attempts at copying Apple product designs.
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| Executives depart as MS try to restructure Skype |
6/20/2011 |
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"Skype, like any other pragmatic organization, constantly assesses its team structure to deliver its users the best products," the company said in a written statement. "As part of a recent internal shift Skype has made some management changes."
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| iPad counterfeiter caught and sentenced |
6/17/2011 |
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A court in Shenzhen, China, has sentenced three people to jail for stealing design details of Apple's iPad2 tablet computer from the contract manufacturer Foxconn.
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| Cloud computing changes our way of accessing files |
6/17/2011 |
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As users, we are in the midst of a paradigm shift. No longer is our data, music, media, photos and documents tied to a particular computer at a specific location. When all this moves into the cloud, access to your files is literally at your fingertips.
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| RIMM downgraded and to shed jobs |
6/17/2011 |
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Research in Motion Ltd. (RIMM) saw its share price drop sharply again early Friday. In pre-market Nasdaq trading Friday morning, RIM was down $6.34, or 18% to $28.99.
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