Dr. Jeffrey Evenson, senior vice president and operations chief of staff for Corning, addressed the MIT Mobile Technology Summit, a gathering of industry leaders in some of the hottest innovations hitting the mobile market. Evenson began ...
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Submissions to Microsoft's Windows Store, after stalling earlier this year, are again on the increase, perhaps because developers have been reinvigorated by talk of Windows 8.1 and this week's BUILD conference. According to the MetroStore ...
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Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner. The company released on Tuesday its CUDA 5.5 programming tools, which will for the first ...
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Ailing Japanese TV maker Sharp says it will try to break into a host of new industries, from industrial cleaning robots to raising strawberries, to supplement its core LCD business. At an open house at its research facility in Nara, ...
Emerging markets and lower prices will push worldwide smartphone shipments close to the billion-unit level this year, according to the latest forecast by IDC. That company is predicting total smartphone sales of 958.8 million for the ...
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Should Microsoft merge its smartphone and tablet/laptop/desktop operating systems into one substantial OS? It's not just a theoretical question prompted by an older "write once, run anywhere" development mindset. Merging the Windows Phone ...
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The new IP suite features ARM Cortex-A12 processor, Mali-T622 GPU, company's new Mali-V500 video application and POP IP technology. UK-based microprocessor developer ARM has unveiled an IP application targeting mid range mobile devices. ...
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Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 tablet will be powered by Intel's Clover Trail+ chip in at least one of its versions, a source told Reuters. Previous use of Intel chips in Samsung tablets had been restricted to its Microsoft ...
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EE is continuing to roll out its 4G service in the UK, today switching on coverage in Ashton-under-Lyne, Chatham, Gillingham, High Wycombe, Merthyr Tydfil, Oldham, Oxford, Rochester, Runcorn, Sale, Stafford and Wigan. EE says this now ...
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Sony has hired two former Apple execs as it tries to build momentum behind its latest Xperia smartphones and tablets. Joining Sony's board are Eikoh Harada, the former head of Apple Japan, and Tim Schaff, who worked for the iPhone ...
Google is likely to have to agree to more concessions before the European Union's antitrust probe into the web giant is settled, says Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia (pictured). The world's number one web firm has been under ...
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With Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer taking steps to transform the company back into a top-tier player, reports are out that Yahoo is in talks to buy Hulu for as much as $800 million. Yahoo bid between $600 million and $800 million for Hulu, a ...
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Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to improve by advancing chip and manufacturing technologies. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich ...
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Increasing confidence in the economy and a rising stock market could lay the groundwork for a revival in tech-sector mergers and acquisitions as companies embrace cloud technology and pursue game-changing software, particularly for the ...
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On the back end of an earnings season that by many accounts could have been worse, tech investors appeared to be in the mood to celebrate on Friday, sending shares of IT companies higher as key stock-market indexes hit milestone highs. ...
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