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| Is Google to take over the world? |
12/29/2010 |
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This year Google will get one giant step closer to taking over the world! Perhaps that is a little too strong a statement, but nonetheless, the rate at which Google is spreading its products, the scope of its reach, is almost incomprehensible.
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| Hacker's forum hacked |
12/29/2010 |
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Web forum 4Chan, which gave birth to the hacker collective Anonymous, was taken down by hackers Tuesday, the Washington Post reported.
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| Analyst predicts 2011 DRAM industry |
12/28/2010 |
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What will happen in the DRAM market in 2011? Here are five trends collected from various reports from analyst C.J. Muse of Barclays Capital.
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| Man faces 5 year jail term for hacking wife's email |
12/28/2010 |
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"People who live under the same roof, be they married or not, and who share a computer -- as in this instance -- they may have some personal privacy lines that they adhere to. And if they don't, that's between the two individuals," defense attorney Leon Weiss said.
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| CDMA to come into iPAD 2 |
12/28/2010 |
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In addition to the existing Wi-Fi-only and UMTS models, Apple's forthcoming second-generation iPad will also have a third, Verizon-compatible CDMA version, according to a new rumor.
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| AT&T added WiFi Hot zones to supplement 3G data network |
12/28/2010 |
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The company initially plans to expand the Times Square Wi-Fi hotzone and add new ones near Rockefeller Center and St. Patrick's Cathedral in midtown Manhattan. The program is intended to supplement mobile broadband in urban areas with consistently high usage
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| TI expands R&D Lab in Bangalore |
12/23/2010 |
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"The objective is to foster breakthrough ideas by giving them whatever they need, to nurture, and then demonstrate them right inside these labs,"
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| Qualcomm to sell FLO TV spectrum to AT&T |
12/23/2010 |
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The purchase will allow AT&T (News - Alert), the second largest cell phone company in the U.S., to bolster its fourth–generation, or "4G" network, whose higher speeds will make loading video and websites on phones faster.
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| APP to add Cherokee language to iPhone |
12/23/2010 |
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Nearly two centuries after a blacksmith named Sequoyah converted Cherokee into its own unique written form, the tribe has worked with Apple to develop Cherokee language software for the iPhone, iPod and — soon — the iPad.
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| Skype Outage |
12/23/2010 |
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Skype estimates that about two-thirds of its users are still unable to log in after an outage caused by problems with its underlying peer-to-peer interconnection system, it said in a blog post around midday European time Thursday.
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| Outlook up for Nand and down for DRAM |
12/22/2010 |
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''We enter 2011 with potentially good prospects in terms of NAND ASP stabilization and a significant O/S tablet launch in Google’s Honeycomb Android in roughly mid-1Q11,''
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| Net neutrality rules passed |
12/22/2010 |
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In broad terms it states wired Internet service providers cannot block any lawful content, services, devices or applications from running on their networks. They must disclose their network management practices on their Web sites and at the point of sale.
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| Amazon fixed Kindle bug |
12/22/2010 |
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The problem is with the "Kindle Leather Cover, Black" for the latest model of Amazon's keyboard-touting e-book reader. Buyers are reporting that the cover causes their Kindles to repeatedly reboot, crash and stop working with the only remedy being to take the device out of the case.
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| Window comes to ARMs |
12/22/2010 |
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Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, will announce a version of its Windows computer operating system that runs on ARM Holdings Plc technology for the first time,
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| Google extends offer for free North America phone calls |
12/21/2010 |
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When Google announced the ability to make phone calls from Gmail in August its plan was to offer free calls to the U.S. and Canada until the end of this year. But now users will be able to make free calls to those destinations for all of 2011.
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| SEC to probe any violation on Hurd's HP departure |
12/21/2010 |
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The securities regulator is looking into whether Hurd leaked information about HP’s planned acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp. to a contractor, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
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| Sub-$100 Andriod phone will be available in China market |
12/20/2010 |
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China's handset makers will be able to build sub-$100 Android phones using a new reference design created by Via Telecom and Wind River. The effort targets one of the fastest growing segments of a smartphone business in which Android is expected to rocket past the RIM Blackberry and Apple iPhone in the next few years.
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| Hynix: memory chip prices are likely to fall |
12/20/2010 |
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"Chip prices remained strong until the first half of this year, but they dropped sharply, especially during the fourth quarter," the report quoted O.C. Kwon, Hynix CEO.
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| iPhone boosted online computer sales |
12/20/2010 |
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Online sales of computer hardware increased 25 percent year over year in the first 47 days of the 2010 holiday shopping season, thanks in part to the popularity of Apple's iPad.
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| Semi equipment Book-To-Bill falls |
12/17/2010 |
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The three-month average of worldwide bookings in November was $1.51 billion, down 5 percent from October and up 91 percent from November 2009, SEMI said.
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| LG announced first dual core phone |
12/17/2010 |
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LG announced today the first smartphone with a dual-core chip, the Optimus 2X. Dual-core phones, which pack more processing power than the current single-core models, are expected to be a major trend for cell phones in 2011.
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