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Microsoft beat expectations |
10/29/2010 |
Its shares, down 14 percent this year, rose 3 percent in after-hours trading. Despite doubling sales and profit in the last eight years.
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Can Pico projection capture a niche market? |
10/28/2010 |
With the proliferation of photos and video, phones are moving to a "shared experience" paradigm, and projection is an ideal way to do that. "Projection gets [us] the biggest image from the smallest box,"
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Rumor: Apple working on multi-carrier iPhone |
10/28/2010 |
With this system in place, Apple could more easily offer iPhones directly to consumers via retail or online, allowing them to choose any available carrier at the time of purchase.
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Intel lead data alliance on Cloud Computing |
10/28/2010 |
Speeding cloud development and interoperability is likely to speed Intel and AMD chip consumption. That’s why Intel orchestrated the alliance. It will set best practices and standards that allow enterprises to proceed with cloud operations.
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China built world's fastest supercomputer |
10/28/2010 |
The Tianhe-1 machine is capable of sustained computing of 2.507 petaflops. If verified, Tianhe-1 would be significantly faster than the current title holder, the U.S. Department of Energy's Cray XT5 Jaguar in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which topped the list issued in June at 1.75 petaflops per second.
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ARM processor continue to gain ground |
10/27/2010 |
In the quarter 900 million ARM-processor based chips were shipped in mobile devices and four processor licenses signed for mobile phone and computing applications.
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Intel opens fab in Dalian, China |
10/27/2010 |
In 2007, Intel won approval to build a $2.5 billion, 300-mm wafer plant in northern China for chip sets. The plan called for the fab to be in the city of Dalian. The fab will produce 65-nm devices.
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Apple App store in Chinese |
10/27/2010 |
Analysts said the introduction of new, easier ways for customers to access products showed that the China market has become increasingly important to the California-based company.
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Space robot to reside on Space Station |
10/27/2010 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
“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 |
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 |
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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