Lenovo showcased its ThinkPad Tablet 2 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, and within days had it on sale globally, including through its online store. At 10mm thick and weighing from 565g, it is a stylish, ...
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ARM signed two architecture licenses in Q4 which is a rare thing for ARM to do. It has only given out about a dozen in its 22 year history. The architecture licenses were for ARM's new 64bit v8 processors which are principally aimed at ...
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Analog Devices has expanded its EngineerZone online technical support community to support its full line of signal processing devices. The chip supplier has set-up the online community to help its customers to engage online with ADI ...
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Gastrointestinal endoscopy company Pentax Medical has obtained Health Canada license for its Pentax RetroView Colonoscope (EC-3490TLi), designed for use in diagnostic colonoscopy procedures for colorectal cancer screening and therapeutic ...
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The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) intends to create a standard method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power(ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, ...
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Apple and Samsung Electronics led the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2012, but new entrant Microsoft did not make it to the top five with its Surface tablet. The market share of Apple also continued to drop in the quarter, IDC ...
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From 10 to 13 June 2013 the garment and textile technology market leaders will gather at Texprocess in Frankfurt am Main to present their innovations. Texprocess is the leading international trade fair for processing textile and other ...
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Pilkington Building Products – the manufacturers, distributors and processors of glass for architectural applications – are set to get FIT and unveil a host of exciting new additions to their current product portfolio across all ...
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Computer-on-Modules (COMs) show the way to faster Freescale QorIQ processor-based design without need for costly and time-consuming full-custom design, writes Gerhard Szczuka, product manager for Computer-on-Modules at Kontron Europe. The ...
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Firm's mobile chipset shipments rose 17% during the quarter to 182 million. Qualcomm has reported a 29% rise in its revenues during the first quarter of 2013 to $6.02bn. The company's Q1 profit rose 36% to $1.91bn, while its operating ...
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The quotations at origin followed the upward trend of the New York cotton futures. According to analysts the price increase which experienced only a short drop due to obvious profit taking was caused by technical reasons as well as rising ...
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BlackBerry last night launched BlackBerry 10 across the world – dubbed ‘the re-designed, re-engineered, and re-invented BlackBerry’ platform that creates a new and unique mobile computing experience. Available on two new ...
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According to Japanese media, the Japanese mobile phone company NTT DoCoMo announced that it would launch a cheap tablet PC at a price of only 9,975 yen (about 709 yuan) in March this year. Despite the low price, the Tablet PC is ...
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The Canadian federal government plans to repeal the law that regulates the sizes of packaged foods sold in Canada. The United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada national president Wayne Hanley has written an open letter to Canadian ...
After a number of rumours last week surrounding Microsoft's and Sony's chosen hardware for their next-generation game consoles, a new report from Eurogamer's Digital Foundry states that both machines will contain AMD Jaguar processors. ...
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