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| Dell has roadmap for phones, and Tablets |
2/17/2011 |
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The Dell smartphone and tablet roadmaps indicate that the company would be rolling out more models to stay on top of the growing market in both segments. Apart from roadmaps, there are hints that Windows Phone 7 Next Gen and Android Ice Cream would be released later this year.
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| TSMC to expand solar and LED involvement |
2/16/2011 |
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“As part of TSMC’s strategic planning, the board of directors is also considering the formation of two wholly-owned subsidiaries for solar and LED businesses,” said Lora Ho, senior vice president and chief financial officer for TSMC.
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| Integrated USB3 to go main stream 2012 |
2/16/2011 |
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Both Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are expected to sample this year PC chip sets that integrate support for the new USB 3.0 interface. The chips are expected to be in production early next year.
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| Does iPad have to perform exactly like a book? |
2/16/2011 |
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The three plaintiffs -- Jacob Balthazar, Claudia Keller and John Browning -- said last year that they were duped into buying a defective device by Apple's marketing claims that "reading on iPad is just like reading a book."
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| Samsung Galaxy S II has dual core |
2/16/2011 |
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Samsung on Sunday night announced the Samsung Galaxy S II phone and the Samsung Galaxy Tab Tab 10.1, a new Android-powered cell phone and tablet that both feature dual-core processors.
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| Mobile chip goes quad-core |
2/15/2011 |
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Qualcomm announced its next-generation Snapdragon processor family, code-named Krait, offering up to four ARM cores per die at speeds of up to 2.5 GHz per core, support for LTE and up to four 3-D graphics cores based on a new version of its Adreno core.
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| Huawei gets into the smartphone race |
2/15/2011 |
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Chinese privately-held telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. Tuesday announced a range of new smart devices including an Android-based tablet and a super slim smartphone.
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| Android and other phones to get Flash |
2/15/2011 |
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And it isn¡¯t just Android. Windows Phone 7, RIM¡¯s BlackBerry OS, and HP¡¯s WebOS all currently or will shortly support Flash on their mobile phones, ensuring that everything from YouTube to the latest hardware-accelerated web-based games are supported on every major mobile platform. Except, of course, iOS.
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| Sony Ericsson to combine Playstation with Phone |
2/15/2011 |
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Sony Ericsson introduced the Xperia Play phone today. The first PlayStation phone has a big touch screen and slide-out control pad with buttons similar to those on Sony's PlayStation Portable.
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| Mobile RAM to gain market |
2/14/2011 |
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But the market for mobile DRAM is set for 71 percent growth this year, defying a slowdown in overall DRAM sales, according to new IHS iSuppli research. Mobile DRAM is a specialized variety of DRAM that incorporates advanced power management features.
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| Freescale to become public again |
2/14/2011 |
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Freescale (Austin, Texas), a onetime spinout from Motorola Inc., was a publicly traded company before it was bought for $17.6 billion in 2006 by a consortium of private equity firms led by the Blackstone Group.
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| Rumor: Apple working on smaller/cheaper iPhone |
2/14/2011 |
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As previously reported, the new iPhone would be about half the size of the iPhone 4 and be available to carriers for half the price of the current model, potentially allowing them to subsidize its entire cost, making it a free phone with a two-year contract (that would obviously help Apple compete with new, cheaper Android smartphones).
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| More outline on Nokia/Window 7 Mobile directions |
2/14/2011 |
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It's clear that Nokia is shifting focus. Nokia made the final decision to switch to Windows Phone 7 the night before Elop's Friday announcement, after spending several months looking at Microsoft, Google and in-house options.
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| DRAM pricing stablizes in February 2011 |
2/11/2011 |
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Pricing for mainstream DRAM has settle-down in February with most vendors freezing price prices further after seeing falls for six straight months, according to research company,inSpectrum.
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| Kingston buys more JMicron shares |
2/11/2011 |
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JMicron Technology has reported, Kingston will purchase 1.5 million JMicron shares at NT$64 (US$2.21) each via private placement with a total transaction estimated at NT$96 million.
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| Atmel reports record revenue |
2/9/2011 |
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Atmel reported sales for the quarter of $457.8 million, up 3 percent sequentially and up 33 percent year-to-year.
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