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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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| Are we losing our semi design industry to China also? |
6/16/2011 |
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The semiconductor industry has effectively migrated to China – along with talented Chinese engineers armed with U.S.-earned Ph.D’s and the hands-on business experience gained as prize recruits in Silicon Valley companies.
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| Gartner forcasts on semi-equipments |
6/16/2011 |
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Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending is on track to rise 10.2 percent to reach $44.8 billion in 2011, before declining in 2012, according to the latest forecast from Gartner Inc.
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| LulzSec hacks into CIA |
6/16/2011 |
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LulzSec got the public’s attention by hacking Sony’s servers, capturing hundreds of thousands of personal user records, which is — by their own admission — their biggest attack.
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| Samsung sells first Chromebook computer |
6/16/2011 |
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"The idea that this doesn't matter - that you're always connected and always online - isn't quite true yet. The idea is very good but it's a little premature."
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| ZTE caught on using unlicensed EDA software |
6/15/2011 |
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A U.S. federal court ruled Monday (June 13) that China’s ZTE Corp. is liable for its employees using an unauthorized key code to access and use software marketed by high-frequency EDA vendor AWR Corp.
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| Rambus derived method to save memory power |
6/15/2011 |
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Rambus Labs, uses a calibrated feed-forward architecture to achieve extremely fast turn-on and turn-off, simplifying the system design and significantly reducing the overall system power requirements, according to Rambus.
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| Google clears huddle to get Nortel IP |
6/15/2011 |
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Back in April, the company stated that "One of a company's best defenses against this kind of litigation is (ironically) to have a formidable patent portfolio, as this helps maintain your freedom to develop new products and services," in reference to patent lawsuits.
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| Apple guru to become J. C. Penny CEO |
6/15/2011 |
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Johnson, SVP of retail at Apple for the past 11 years, will take over on Nov. 1 from Mike Ullman, who is steeping down by moving up to the office of vice chairman.
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