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| Android gains ground steadily |
6/29/2011 |
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Either way, with 500,000 activations per day, Android's not going anywhere. The horse race against Apple may be fun to watch, but it only shows that both operating systems can exist side-by-side, continuing to grow.
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| Skype granted patent on snooping |
6/29/2011 |
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Titled "Legal Intercept", it covers one way in which a VoIP-based communications system might enable a call to be intercepted and covertly recorded, naming Skype as one of the services to which it could be applied.
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| Synopsys to offer AEON embedded NVM IP |
6/28/2011 |
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The new products include few-time programmable, multiple-time programmable RFID and erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) IP solutions.
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| Wafer suppliers to hike prices |
6/27/2011 |
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Two Japanese materials suppliers have firmly insisted on hiking pricing to reflect steep cost surge. They are said to raise prices of 200mm and 300mm raw wafers by at least 10%.
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| Apple to row iPhone 5 production in August |
6/27/2011 |
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She added that, based on her intelligence, the new handset will launch and be available to consumers sometime near the end of the third calendar quarter of the year, which ends September.
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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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