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| Acer revenue increased |
1/27/2011 |
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Acer, one of the world's top PC vendors, reported record high revenue of NT$629.7 billion (US$19.9 billion) in 2010 and profits in its core business.
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| Stealth bomber engineer sentenced for spying |
1/27/2011 |
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A former Northrop Grumman Corp engineer who worked on the Stealth bomber has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for providing classified national defense information to the People's Republic of China (PRC), illegally exporting military technical data.
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| Executives shaken up at Ramtron |
1/27/2011 |
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At that time, Ramtron expected to generate first production wafers during 2010 on the IBM 0.18-micron wafer manufacturing process. To date, IBM has failed to deliver.
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| The Sputnik movement to revitalize technology |
1/27/2011 |
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In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama called for more federal government investment in R&D, education and transportation at what he dubbed is a "Sputnik moment."
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| DRAM prices continue down trend |
1/26/2011 |
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The contract price of 1-gigabit DDR3 DRAM tumbled to the 22-month low of $0.88 this week, down 3.3 percent from earlier this month, according to Taiwan-based DRAMeXchange Technology Inc., which tracks prices of computer memory chips.
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| UMC set Capex at $1.8B |
1/26/2011 |
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United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) said it is planning to maintain its annual capital expenditure budget at $1.8 billion; in line with capex spending in 2010.
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| Intel tap broadcast executive to head digital home |
1/25/2011 |
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Huggers is director of the BBC's future media and technology division and serves as a member of the BBC's Executive Board. He joined the BBC in 2007 and is responsible for delivering BBC content over the Internet, interactive TV, and mobile.
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| Huawei sued Motorola |
1/25/2011 |
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In a suit, China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has asked a U.S. District Court to prevent Motorola Inc. from illegally transferring Huawei's intellectual property (IP) to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).
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| Executives indicted and fined on LCD price fixing |
1/25/2011 |
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Executive from Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. (Chi Mei) agreed to plead guilty and serve 14 months in a U.S. jail for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of TFT-LCD panels, and a second executive pleaded guilty and was sentenced for his role in the same conspiracy,
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| Would most software sold in Apps stores? |
1/25/2011 |
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Users will see more branded app stores selling software that runs on notebooks and desktops. "The idea of using a store to promote a platform and its development community is too good to pass up."
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| Micron teams up with Unity to development 3D memory |
1/24/2011 |
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As lithographic scaling becomes more challenging, companies are turning their sights to vertically stacked implementations of memory cells or 3D memory. 3D memory technologies offer the promise of continued increases in storage capacities and lower cost per bit necessary to enable emerging applications such as solid state drives.
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| DDR3 prices halved in the past 7 weeks |
1/24/2011 |
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According to the recent report by DRAMExchange, the lowest price for 4GB DDR3 module quoted for the third week of January 2011 was around $32, which is approximately 50 percent lower than the price at the start of December 2010.
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| Joint venture in personal computers |
1/24/2011 |
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NEC, which controlled about 18% of the Japanese PC market in 2009, expects the PC business to post a profit in the year to March 31. Lenovo sells around one in four PCs in its home market.
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| Rumors on iPhone 5 features |
1/24/2011 |
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It is expected that the iPhone 5 may be supportive to 3D games and there are possibilities that the handset will be available on Sprint, a third US carrier.
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| Congress to work on Patent Reform Bill |
1/21/2011 |
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The Patent Reform Act of 2011, which will be introduced in the Senate on Jan. 25, mirrors draft legislation announced last March. It aims to change the U.S. to a so-called first-inventor-to-file system and provide limits on infringement damages.
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| T-Mobile sell towers to fund 4G |
1/21/2011 |
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T-Mobile said yesterday it may sell non- core assets to finance the building of a next-generation network using long-term evolution, or LTE.
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| Google shuffled top executives |
1/21/2011 |
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Starting April 4, Page will take over Google's day-to-day operations, and his fellow founder Sergey Brin will focus on "his passion" of strategic projects, as he said on an investor call Thursday.Schmidt will concentrate "externally on deals, partnerships, customers and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership
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| 17 million tablets shipped in 2010 |
1/20/2011 |
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The tablet computer market in 2010 was nearly 17 million units and this is set to grow to 44.6 million units in 2011, according to market research company International Data Corporation (IDC). In 2012, IDC forecasts worldwide shipments of 70.8 million units.
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| Trident lost CEO |
1/20/2011 |
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''The revenue shortfall is primarily attributable to order push-outs and cancellations from TV customers in the seasonally weak fourth quarter as well as slower than expected program ramp-up and a weaker retail segment for the company’s set-top box products,''
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| Verizon to sell iPhone 4 starting Feb. 2 |
1/20/2011 |
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Promotional pricing is $199.99 for the 16 GB model, and $299.99 for the 32 GB model with a new two-year activation agreement — new customers can order starting Feb. 10.
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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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