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| Android 39% vs iOS at 28% |
7/29/2011 |
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Android's total U.S. share for June came in at 39%, compared to 28% for Apple, according to data compiled by market watcher Nielsen. RIM's BlackBerry OS was in third place with 20% of the market.
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| Another Mobile OS - this one is from China |
7/28/2011 |
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Alibaba's operating system makes use of "cloud-based" services, which are based on a remote server instead of being downloading to the phone. These will include software applications, e-mail, mapping and data storage, Alibaba said.
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| Notebooks are ditching drives to becoming thinner |
7/28/2011 |
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Now, as storage migrates toward online servers, and media is more likely to be streamed rather than viewed from a DVD or Blu-ray disc, many of those onboard features are shrinking down, or getting nixed altogether.
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| Blackberry to cut 2000 jobs |
7/27/2011 |
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. is cutting 2,000 jobs as part of a cost savings plan announced last month and is shuffling some senior executives.
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| Macronix reports profit drop for 2Q11 |
7/27/2011 |
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Macronix has announced that net profits for the second quarter of 2011 slid to NT$515 million (US$18 million) from NT$1.06 billion in the prior quarter.
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| JMicron develops SATA 6Gbps controller IC for SSDs |
7/26/2011 |
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JMicron Technology has successfully developed SATA 6Gbps controller ICs for use in solid state drives (SSD), and will begin small-volume shipments in the third quarter, according to industry sources.
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| TSMC regains orders from chipset players |
7/26/2011 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has managed to regain more orders recently, aiming at sustaining a positive on-quarter growth in revenues for the third quarter, according to industry sources.
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| Hynix Q2 result below expectations |
7/25/2011 |
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Benchmark DRAM prices have fallen over 7 percent in the first half of July alone and market research firms have little doubt that the prices will slide further, threatening third quarter earnings.
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| Apple and Qualcomm will boost Taiwan foundries |
7/25/2011 |
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Taiwan is taking comfort from an expected cycle of semiconductor purchasing to come in the second half of 2011, driven by the needs of forthcoming Apple products, according to a Taiwan Economic News report.
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| Apple iPad ad hints Mac OS Lion compatible |
7/25/2011 |
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During the "learn new things" section of the ad, a child is shown writing the word "Lion" next to a picture of a lion. Of course, the lion reference could be viewed as mere coincidence, but given the company's tight control, it's likely that the allusion is intentional.
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| Rambus say it will rebound in Q3 |
7/22/2011 |
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Rambus Inc. made a net loss of $10.6 million on sales revenue of $66.2 million in the second quarter of 2011. However, Rambus (Sunnyvale, Calif.) guided that it would be profitable in Q3 on rising revenue.
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| Apple interested in Hulu.com |
7/22/2011 |
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Apple has begun preliminary discussions that may eventually lead to an acquisition, Bloomberg reported without elaborating.
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| Nokia's China dominance challenged |
7/22/2011 |
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Nokia’s second-quarter handset shipments in China fell to 11.3 million, less than half the previous quarter’s number and 41 percent less than a year earlier.
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| Google+ attracked 20 million first month |
7/22/2011 |
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Google+ continues to go from strength to strength, with 20 million people visiting the site in less than a month - and all this despite it currently being an invite-only service.
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| Cisco to cut 6500 |
7/21/2011 |
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Analysts have been expecting Cisco to cut jobs since the company turned in disappointing quarterly numbers in May. According to the Wall Street Journal, analysts had pegged the number of layoffs at between 5,000 and 10,000.
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| Intel revenue grew 23% |
7/21/2011 |
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Revenue growth was strongest in its embedded and communications section at 25 percent, followed by servers and PCs at 15 and 11 percent respectively.
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| Fake Apple Store exposed in China |
7/21/2011 |
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Many of the Apple products carried by resellers are purchased from the company’s retail outlets in China, while others are bought overseas and smuggled in. In some cases, the products on offer are second-hand or even knock-offs.
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| Teardown found Huawei designed baseband IC |
7/20/2011 |
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Huawei makes two wideband CDMA external modems, both sold as the E173. One version uses a Qualcomm MSM6290 HSPA chipset, the other uses a baseband designed by Huawei's HiSilicon division and both are subjects of ABI teardown reports.
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| DRAM price errosion slows |
7/20/2011 |
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After dropping 14.2 percent in the first quarter, the global average decline in pricing for DRAM slowed to 12 percent in the second quarter, according to IHS (El Segundo, Calif.).
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