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Monday, February 1, 2016

Shipments of Tablets Continue to Decline While Detachable Tablets Climb

Despite the holiday season, the worldwide tablet market declined yet again in the fourth quarter of 2015 (4Q15) with 65.9 million units shipped, down -13.7% year over year, according to data from the International Data Corporation (IDC).

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Microsoft Wants To Take The Data Center Underwater

Researchers at Microsoft have been working on Project Natick, a Microsoft research project to manufacture and operate an underwater datacenter.

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Nokia Settles Patent Dispute With Samsung

Nokia on Monday said it had settled a lengthy patent dispute with Samsung Electronics, with the deal to lift patent unit Nokia Technologies' sales to around 1.02 billion euros in 2015.

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Fujitsu Achieves 56 Gbps Transmission Speeds In Wireless and Optical Connections

Fujitsu Laboratories and its partners have succeeded in achieving wireless transmission speeds of 56 Gigabits per second (Gbps) that can be used in trunk lines for future cellular base stations. The Japanese company has also developed the world's lowest power-consuming transceiver circuit that achieves communications speeds of 56 Gbps per channel.

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Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Coming At February's Unpacked 2016 Event

Samsung will hold its latest "Unpacked" event where the company will announce, "The Next Galaxy." The event is set for Sunday February 21st at 7pm CET (1pm ET) in Barcelona, one day before Mobile World Congress.

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