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| Rumor that Apple is to have multi-touch screen |
1/20/2011 |
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One screen shot shows the option to turn multitouch gestures on or off. Below that, it says "four or five fingers" can be used to pinch to the homescreen, swipe up to reveal the multiasking bar, or even swipe left or right between applications.
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| The wait for the white iPhone |
1/19/2011 |
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The Apple rumor site MacRumors received a screenshot of what their source claims is a Best Buy inventory page showing the white iPhone will be in stock Feb. 27.
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| Intel to set $9B Capex for this year |
1/19/2011 |
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The year's growth will be supported by the planned $9 billion capex investment, R&D spending of $7.3 billion, and moves top 22 nm, executives said.
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| New iPad 2 features surface |
1/19/2011 |
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More importantly, the use of a mini DisplayPort would allow the iPad to be connected to the iMac (and other Apple monitors) without any other adaptor.
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| Starbucks accepts Mobile Payment from smartphone |
1/19/2011 |
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The coffee behemoth launched its mobile payment service today, and Blackberry and iPhone or iPod Touch users can download an app that lets them pay through a barcode sent straight to their devices.
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| ARM to work with IBM on 14nm |
1/18/2011 |
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This is intended to minimize the risk and barriers to migrating to smaller geometries while enabling optimized density, performance, power and yield in advanced SoC designs; accelerating the introduction of advanced electronics into the marketplace.
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| Plastic solar panel color match your roof |
1/18/2011 |
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The cells are printed onto glass or other surfaces, are available in a range of colors and could be ideal for new buildings where solar cells are incorporated into glazing panels and walls.
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| Smart phone hack activity will peak next week |
1/18/2011 |
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Ralf-Philipp Weinmann told Computerworld that his technique will break into a smartphone's baseband processor, which sends and receives radio signals as it communicates with the mobile network. A hacker can then listen in to conversations from far away.
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| World PC ship increased while US shipment declined |
1/17/2011 |
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Worldwide PC shipments totaled 93.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010, a 3.1 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2009, according to preliminary results from Gartner. For the whole of 2010 PC shipments totaled 350.9 million units.
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| Scientist are one step closer to quantum memory |
1/17/2011 |
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"We have already demonstrated entanglement between a photon and the atoms of the crystal. Our next step will be to use interactions with a third photon to teleport its state into our solid-state memory by virtue of that entanglement," said University of Calgary professor Wolfgang Tittel at the Institute for Quantum Information Science.
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| Other tablet makers getting aggressive |
1/17/2011 |
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RIM PlayBook and Motorola Xoom tablet orders to Taiwanese hardware makers point to 2 million in first-quarter shipments for the Apple iPad challengers.
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| Steve Job to take medical leave again |
1/17/2011 |
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Mr. Jobs's health is key to Apple. He is deeply involved in all aspects of the company's business and is widely credited for reviving the then-struggling computer maker in the late 1990s with hit products such as the iMac desktop computer.
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| Nvidia ship 1 Billion GeForce chips |
1/13/2011 |
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Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) celebrated the shipment of the one-billionth GeForce graphics processor designed by Nvidia and manufactured by TSMC.
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| TSMC to buy ProMos for U$ 100 Million |
1/13/2011 |
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TSMC announced plans to buy a 218,156-square-meter plot of land, located at the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), northern Taiwan, from Powerchip Technology for US$100 million.
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| AMD appoints new interim CEO |
1/12/2011 |
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AMD has announced that its board of directors has appointed senior vice president and CFO Thomas Seifert as interim CEO following the resignation of Dirk Meyer as president, CEO and a director of the company effective immediately.
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| TSMC report weak Q4 sales |
1/11/2011 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. showed a continued market weakness resulting in a quarterly drop in revenue.
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