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| Space robot to reside on Space Station |
10/27/2010 |
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GM and NASA designed the robot, which is the most advanced humanoid of its kind, according to NASA, to perform mundane tasks and set up work sites for astronauts, eliminating some of their busywork so they can focus on other things, according to the space agency.
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| Kingston jumps into eMMC with controller partner |
10/26/2010 |
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Kingston Technology and Phison Electronics will be spinning off their respective embedded business units and combine them into a joint venture. The pair will supply eMMC, MCP and other mobile memory products for use in smartphones and tablet PCs in a bid to compete with Samsung.
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| Renounced electronic columist being missed |
10/26/2010 |
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Jack Robertson, an award-winning journalist who covered the electronics industry for some five decades, died on Tuesday (Oct. 19) in Arlington, Va. He was 78.
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| Flash to be on all mobile platforms except iPhone |
10/26/2010 |
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A statement released by the company said that Flash Player 10.1 is available on the Android OS and Google TV today, with the Blackberry OS, HP WebOS 2.0, future versions of Windows Phone 7, Limo, Meego and the Symbian OS also expected to support Flash Player 10.1.
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| Is MAC App Store to change software landscape? |
10/26/2010 |
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The talk around the virtual water cooler these days among the Mac developer crowd is all about the forthcoming Mac App Store. Announced on Wednesday by Steve Jobs, this store will extend the current iOS App Store concept to Mac OS X.
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| ITC Judge: Samsung did not violate Spansion patents |
10/25/2010 |
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In the initial determination Friday, ITC Administrative Law Judge Charles Bullock ruled that Samsung's products do not violate two Spansion patents at issue. Bullock also found that several claims of one Spanion patent, U.S. patent No. 5,715,194, are invalid.
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| CMOS oscillator chanllenges quartz-crystal |
10/25/2010 |
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IDT delivers its all-silicon CMOS oscillators on wafers before dicing, so that its customers can stack the IDT3C02 on top of their application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) in a multi-chip package, or for ultra-price-sensitive applications, like flash drives, OEMs can affix the IDT die to a chip-on-board (CoB).
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| New Google Android release anticipated |
10/25/2010 |
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The Android developers have posted a Youtube video that shows their unveiling of the gingerbread man and the video is only enigmatically tagged with the line, "We've been baking something... and it's pretty sweet".
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| Apple to double data center expansions |
10/25/2010 |
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Even though the data center hasn’t gone into action yet, Apple is already considering building a second 500,000 square foot facility next to the first.
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| Nokia changes strategy on Symbian development |
10/22/2010 |
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With the changes, Nokia aims to increase its competitiveness and support building an attractive and sustainable platform for application developers across both the Symbian and MeeGo platforms.
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| Capex to scale back due to economy |
10/22/2010 |
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As reported, the DRAM market has hit the wall due to slowing demand. In a new report, Jagadish Iyer, an analyst with Arete Research LLC, made the following observations about the DRAM market going into 2011: ''As we enter '11, we see the DRAM industry headed for turmoil at least early in the year given."
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| HP officially announced the Slate Tablet |
10/22/2010 |
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The HP Slate 500 is a Windows 7-based tablet PC with a 8.9-inch, 1024×600 resolution screen, a 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor, a Crystal HD accelerator that should ensure smooth playback for HD (1080p) videos, two gigabytes of RAM (recent rumors predicted 1 GB), and a 64GB SSD.
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| TD-LTE demonstrated ahead of India spectrum bidding |
10/21/2010 |
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“India will have a key role in driving globalization of TD-LTE for paired and unpaired frequency bands, and we believe India will be a major TD-LTE player,” added Juha Lappalainen, head of NSN mobile sales.
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| Microsoft landed Cloud contract with government |
10/21/2010 |
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Under the five-year deal, 30,000 New York City employees will use Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, which includes email and a collaboration product called SharePoint. Next year, users will migrate to Microsoft's new Office 365 product when it becomes available.
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| Tablets are coming |
10/21/2010 |
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Chinese companies like Aigo and Hanvon Technology have already launched their own tablet devices in the China market. Earlier this year, Hanvon released two tablets -- one which runs on Windows 7, the other on Windows XP
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| TV prices to fall on excessive inventory |
10/21/2010 |
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TV prices have fallen by more than 20% per year over the past few years. But weaker-than-expected demand in the first half of the year has led to excess product stock, and TV makers worldwide are now under pressure to meet their shipment targets by slashing prices.
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| Altera drive TSMC into 28nm by Q4 |
10/20/2010 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is set to put its 28-nm CMOS process into production this year in response to orders for programmable logic chips from Altera Corp., according to a Taiwan Economic News report.
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| Starbuck WiFi Network comes with contents |
10/20/2010 |
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Starbucks has manufactured a rich experience around each of its six channels: News, Entertainment, Wellness, Business and Careers, My Neighborhood and the customer-personalized Starbucks channel.
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| TI takes over management at Chengdu Fab. |
10/19/2010 |
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The fab, a fully equipped 200-mm manufacturing facility, was purchased from Cension Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for an undisclosed price. The facility is fully functioning today, as it was previously operated by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), one of TI's foundry partners.
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| German government funds Plastic Logic |
10/19/2010 |
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Plastic Logic GmbH and and the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden (IPF) have announced the extension of an existing collaboration, part funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, for another three years.
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| Streaming priemium movies on your Wii |
10/19/2010 |
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Netflix has launched a channel on the Nintendo Wii. Netflix subscribers will now be able to stream movies and TV shows through the video game console without the need for a special DVD.
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| Dead Sea Scrolls now online |
10/19/2010 |
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The scrolls, most of them on parchment, are the oldest copies of the Hebrew Bible and include secular text dating from the third century BC to the first century AD.
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