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Friday, May 24, 2013
Panasonic has developed a white Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) with "the world's highest luminous efficiency of 114 lm/W (light-emitting area of 1 cm²)," according to the company.
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Executives from Samsung and Corning have been reportedly met in Korea and the industry is speculating that they have discussed ways to solidify their existing joint businesses and to expand their cooperation in next generation materials.
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The US Federal Trade Commission is set to investigate Google over anti-competitive practices regarding its online advertising business, according to reports.
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The International Trade Commission (ITC) on Thursday said that Microsoft's Xbox entertainment system did not violate a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility.
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On Thursday Microsoft announced it will deliver a new generation Kinect for Windows sensor next year, offering businesses access to natural technology and hoping that they will develop and deploy touch-free applications for their customers.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Electronic Arts' Need for Speed Rivals, a new action/racing game built on the Frostbite 3 game engine, is coming to Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and PC on November 19, 2013 and will also be released on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 later this year.
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Google has collected panoramic imagery of the Galapagos islands and offers them through Google Street Views.
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The European Commission today launches a campaign for coordinated public investments in micro- and nano-electronics (such as semiconductors and computer chips), designed to expand Europe's manufacturing base.
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Samsung Display last month set up established a company specializing in trading and developing patents in the United States.
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NVIDIA today introduced the GeForce GTX 780 GPU, an $650 graphics card and a follow-up to last year's GeForce GTX 680 based on a cut-down GK110 GPU, which first launched into the prosumer space with GTX Titan earlier this year.
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OCZ today released the Vertex 450 SATA III SSD Series featuring the company's proprietary Indilinx Barefoot 3 M10 Series controller and designed to bridge the gap between high performance and mainstream solid-state storage.
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Google will reportedly use Samsung Display's organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology in its upcoming Google Glasswearable computer, accordig to a report from S. Korea.
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Amazon.com is expanding the distribution of its Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9, which are both now available for preorder in over 170 countries, and its Appstore open in nearly 200 countries.
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Lenovo Group had a strong showing this year with record full-year sales, earnings and income, despite the steep fall of the PC industry.
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HP is announcing some new Windows 8 PCs today - including a brand new portable All-in-One PC called the HP ENVY Rove 20. Most if not all these new PCs all come with touchscreens.
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Samsung Electronics said Thursday that global sales of its Galaxy S4 smartphones have surpassed the 10 million mark since its release in late April.
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LG plans to design its own SoCs for its mobile devices by licensing ARM?s CPU and GPU technologies, a move that could help the company better compete against its rival Samsung electronics.
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AMD today launched three new additions to its 2013 A-Series and E-Series Mobile Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) lineup -- delivering solutions positioned to address today's PC market with increased performance and power efficiency, as well as a superior gaming and graphics.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Twitter on Wednesday unveiled technology to boost security for its users. The popular network has begun rolling out an optional "login
verification" service to thwart hackers seeking to hijack accounts with
stolen passwords.
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Hewlett-Packard's earnings keep dipping as the world's largest personal computer maker scrambles to meet the demand for more affordable mobile devices.
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The ASUS Transformer Book TX300 is now available at Amazon, B&H, BestBuy.com, CDW, Excaliber PC, PC Connection, and Tiger Direct starting at $1,499 (U.S.).
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NVIDIA is unleashing the full graphics potential of enterprise desktop
virtualization with the availability of NVIDIA GRID vGPU integrated into Citrix XenDesktop 7.
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Mushkin announced today the worldwide availability of its new line of memory modules, named Stealth.
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Clearwire's board of directors has approved the revised offer from Sprint to acquire the approximately 50 percent stake in the company it does not currently own for $3.40 per share.
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Apple has applied to add the Galaxy S4 to a U.S. lawsuit that was filed in February 2012 against Samsung Electronics, claiming that the S4 infringes on 5 Apple patents.
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WD will demonstrate its solid state hybrid drives (SSHD) and 5 mm ultra-slim hard drive technologies in tablet and other thin-and-light devices at the COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013 trade event, held in Taiwan from June 4 to June 8, 2013.
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Renesas has developed the µPD720115 USB 2.0 hub controller chip, which supports simultaneous USB communication and charging of portable devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs via a single USB connector.
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Intel's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich will reportedly reorganize the company and create a unit aimed at growing its market share in mobile technology.
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Nokia has updated its Here Maps on Windows Phone devices that integrates its augmented reality LiveSight location app.
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Sony cut its sales targets for digital cameras, smartphones and tablets for the year to end-March 2015, sees signs of a revival in its electronics business and its board will discuss a proposal by U.S. hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb to spin off up to 20 percent of its movie, TV and music division.
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Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it would buy a 10 percent stake in Pantech Corp., South Korea's third-largest handset maker.
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EA's action blockbuster Battlefield 4 will be available this holiday for
early-adopters of the next-generation hardware systems: Xbox One and the PlayStation 4.
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Innodisk released an industrial-embedded SATA device in accordance to SATA µSSD standards ? nanoSSD.
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Toshiba has announced full European availability of its latest Enterprise
- class PX02SMx SSDs (solid state drives) and MG03xxxx HDDs (hard disk drives).
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MSI Computer Corp, today unveiled the new GX70 and GX60, the first AMD Richland A10-5750M powered gaming laptops.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The next generation of Microsoft's entertainment console is the Xbox One, unveiled today and set to "light up a new generation of games and entertainment," according to Mircrosoft.
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Sony is testing a new technology that will provide users a faster stream whenever they rent a movie from the PlayStation Store on PlayStation 3.
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Ericsson on Tuesday initiated union negotiations to close down its telecom cables operation within business unit Networks.
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Globalfoundries today joined a collaborative research program run by European research institute IMEC on STT-MRAM (spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory) technology.
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NVIDIA's mobile processor for mainstream smartphones - Tegra 4i, which includes an integrated NVIDIA i500 LTE modem, chewed through 150Mbps of LTE data in a demo this week at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas.
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A slowdown in notebook and desktop personal computer purchases coupled with strong growth in smartphones and tablet PCs knocked AMD down to fourth place in microprocessor sales in 2012, according to a new ranking of MPU suppliers by IC Insights.
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Opera has revamped the Opera browser for Android devices, with the final version to focus on giving users a fast and easy way to discover new content on their Android phones.
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Sprint Nextel has received from SoftBank a waiver of various provisions of the merger agreement between Sprint and SoftBank.
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Sharp will launch new 4K Aquos UD1 series LCD TV's in Japan later this summer, following the release of its ultra high-end model "ICC PURIOS" series in February, 2013.
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Japan Display (JDI) has developed a high pixel density
5.2-inch (diagonal) organic light emitting diode (OLED)
display prototype with full high-definition display
resolution.
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Amazon.com has received a security clearance by the U.S.
government that will make it easier for federal agencies to
use its cloud computing services.
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HGST is now offering the highest storage density (MB/mm3) of
any hard disk drive (HDD) today with the introduction of the
new Travelstar 5K1500 9.5mm, 1.5TB mobile hard drive.
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Samsung is now supplying its solid state drive (SSD), the
SM843T, for use in high-performance servers and storage in
next-generation data centers, including Big Data systems.
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Toshiba will start applying its second generation 19
nanometer process technology to mass production of
2-bit-per-cell 64 gigabit NAND memory chips later this
month.
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Following the purchase of Tumblr, Yahoo mas made a fresh
revamp for the Flickr photo-sharing website the company
bought in 2005, and is giving all users 1 terabyte of
storage.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
With less than 24 hours before the next Xbox or "Durango" is revealed, let's summarize the rumors that have been circulating online for many months now related to Microsoft's new device.
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Marvell today announced its new PXA1088 LTE, the first mass market quad-core 5-mode Category 4 LTE single-chip solution supporting LTE TDD and FDD, High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+), Time Division High Speed Packet Access Plus (TD-HSPA+) and Enhanced Data for GSM Environment (EDGE).
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Seagate's new Seagate Video 3.5 HDD is propbbly the first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD) engineered specifically for use in video applications such as digital video recorders (DVRs), set-top boxes (STBs), and surveillance systems.
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Jolla has announced its first smartphone based on the Sailfish open-source operating system and coming with a 4.5-inch screen.
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Yahoo and Tumblr announced today confirmed previous reports that they have reached a definitive agreement for Yahoo to acquire Tumblr.
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Futurmark is develoing the latest version PCMark, the company's popular PC benchmarking tool.
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Sony Mobile's Xperia Tablet Z Android tablet is now available to buy across the globe through Sony's retail and operator partners as well as online channels.
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Sharp's LCDs and OLEDs powered by its proprietary IGZO (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) technology will be on show in the Sharp booth during Display Week 2013.
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AU Optronics Corp. (AUO) is participating in Display Week 2013, held by SID (Society for Information Display) with the introduction of 65-inch Full HD OLED TV panel.
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Samsung today introduced the Samsung Smart App Challenge
2013, a global app competition aimed at finding new
applications utilizing group communication function.
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The world's biggest display makers will showcase their
latest technologies and prototypes during the Society for
Information Display's Display Week 2013 (SID) fair in
Canada.
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Japan Display has developed a 5.0-inch Full-HD (1,080 x
1,920 pixels) TFT LCD module with JDI's proprietary
integrated touch functionality "Pixel Eyes".
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Fujitsu Laboratories and Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. of China have develeped a 3D hand gesture recognition technology capable of complex tasks with a single PC or tablet camera.
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Internet users have instructed lawyers to press European internet regulators to take action to ensure Google complies with European laws.
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Google on Friday said that plugin-free video chat in the browser is becoming a reality with the availability of Web with Real Time Communications capabilities, or WebRTC support in Firefox 22.
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HP collaborate with SAP AG on a joint initiative, codenamed "Project Kraken," to improve business processes and mitigate risks for their customers.
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The future of Sanyo Electric as a brand and a company is uncertain as its parent company Panasonic is undergoing a
reorganization plan, which includes global jobs cuts.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Microsoft data shows that computer viruses, once built to attack computers in the era before ubiquitous Internet connectivity, have started to trend upward again.
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Yahoo Japan said on Friday it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been leaked.
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The security technical implementation guide for mobile devices using Apple?s iOS6 operating system has been approved, Defense Information Systems Agency officials announced on Friday.
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The Software Alliance (BSA) and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today applauded the introducing the End Anonymous Patents Act ( H.R. 2024) in the US House of Representatives.
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Corning today launched Corning Lotus XT Glass, a second-generation glass substrate specially formulated for high-performance displays.
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The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market grew 73.4% year over year with 20.2 million units shipped in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to data released by the International Data Corporation (IDC).
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The next title in SEGA's 'Sonic the Hedgehog' franchise will be exclusive to Nintendo's Wii U home console and Nintendo 3DS portable system.
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Lenovo announced the general availability of K900 smartphone with Intel Inside.
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Nvidia's SHIELD partners are moving up the pre-order date for the new open platform gaming portable and you can now pre-order a SHIELD today.
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The Financial Times on Friday said some of its blogs and social-media accounts were hacked by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army.
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Lexar's latest addition to its flash drive line is the JumpDrive S23 USB 3.0, avaiilable for purchase at retailers and e-tailers throughout the UK.
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Nvidia has shipped the most graphics chips in Q1 2013,
AMD's shipments remained flat and Intel;s were significantly declined, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) estimates.
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Facebook and Twitter are coming to Google Glass wearable computer, Google announced at Google I/O, but the company is already facing questions from Congress over privacy concerns.
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As part of Intel?s ongoing effort to attract the Android ecosystem and enter the smartphone market, the company today released a new tool environment for developers of native Android applications.
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Foxconn Technology Group is trying to meet a July deadline
for cutting work hours and improving union participation,
said the labor monitor appointed by Apple, its largest
customer.
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Yahoo said on Thursday that a Mexican appellate court had
thrown out a $2.75 billion ruling by a lower court against
Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico in a contractual dispute with two
Mexican firms.
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Nokia will soon start rolling out the Nokia Xpress Now, a
web app that gathers information from Nokia's Xpress
Browser and presents it to Nokia Asha owners.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Yahoo on Thursday began offering tweets at its
online news pages.
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The four computer hackers affiliated with the group Lulz Security were sentenced to up to 32 months in a U.K. prison on Thursday.
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ARCHOS today added the ARCHOS 80 xenon 8" tablet to its Elements range of Android tablets.
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Dell today expanded its Dell Precision workstation portfolio that includes the smallest tower workstation chassis in its class, the Dell Precision T1700 small form-factor, and the powerful the Dell Precision R7610 rack workstation.
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The Android mobile system kept its lead in the global smartphone market over Apple in early 2013, while Windows took into third place, an IDC survey showed Thursday.
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Japan public broadcaster NHK announced to separate achievements today related to the longevity of OLED and the efficient digital terrestrial transmission of 8K video signals.
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Just one day after Google provided figures regarding its succesfull Google play app store, Apple today rushed to announce that its customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps from its own App Store.
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Bang & Olufsen today launched a surround sound speaker system that presents a new category of speakers to the company's product portfolio.
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Innodisk is among the first to supply (DDR4) registered DIMM product samples to key server companies for their new systems.
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The Tokyo High Court's on May 13 dismissed appeals previously filed by Elpida Memory's creditors in order to stop Elpida's reorganization plan, under which Elpida will join the Micron group of companies.
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ECS introduced its first Intel 8-Series Motherboards featuring the new 4th Generation Intel Core processor family for their new family of desktop motherboards Pro, Deluxe and Essentials.
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ASUS today announced a new look for its range of motherboards based on the Intel Z87 chipset.
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Microsoft is expected to release an 8-inch Surface tablet in June and a 10.x-inch model as early as the third quarter of 2013, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.
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DivX is among the first to deliver tools for HEVC content and playback with the release of the first DivX HEVC draft profiles, available for download and testing.
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Samsung Electronics has succesfully implemented
the first 45 nanometer (nm) embedded flash ("eFlash") logic process into a smart card test chip, paving the way for deployment of the process on a commercial scale.
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