The second-generation Nexus 7 tablet, powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, will be launched around July, according to two unnamed sources in a Reuters report. The Android device will be made by Asustek, and Google hopes to ship 8 ...
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Alcatel-Lucent is promising more manageable cloud computing through Nuage Networks, an internal startup that is making its formal debut on Tuesday. Nuage has been Alcatel's wholly owned vehicle for developing its SDN (software-defined ...
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H-Square Corporation of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a maker of wafer and substrate fabrication handling tools and equipment, has appointed Rick O’Malley as sales representative of the firm’s Oregon and Washington territories. ...
Early models of Google's wearable computer, Glass, may be manufactured in the U.S., according to a report. The Glass eyewear, which is still in development, is expected to be built in Silicon Valley, the Financial Times reported, citing ...
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MiaSolé of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a manufacturer of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic panels, and KSK Energy Ventures of India, a power development and generation company, have announced the commissioning ...
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Agilent Technologies Inc of Santa Clara, CA, USA says that Plextek RF Integration, a UK-based company that designs and develops RFICs, MMICs and microwave/millimeter-wave modules, has selected Agilent's Momentum software to simulate its new ...
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Recently, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just announced the winners of the fifth annual Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) 2012 Outdoor Lighting Competition. The competition includes 120 outdoor lighting entries from 42 ...
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In an effort to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow for software-defined networking, Big Switch Networks this week unveiled an open source-based “thin” virtual switch for servers and commodity switches. Switch Light is ...
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Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture. An economist that HP plans to call in the case made the estimate at an evidentiary hearing on Monday ...
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Hewlett-Packard misled IT buyers about plans to phase out its Itanium server platform and in the process stole potential sales from Oracle and other rivals, costing Oracle about US$95 million in profits, the company plans to testify in a ...
Hewlett-Packard may seek damages of US$4 billion to $4.2 billion from Oracle in its lawsuit over support for Itanium server architecture. An economist that HP plans to call in the case made the estimate at an evidentiary hearing on Monday ...
Nvidia wants to bump up graphics and application performance on tablets and smartphones with the two new Tegra mobile processors it announced on Tuesday. The new Tegra processors will be called Logan and Parker, and will succeed the Tegra ...
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SEMI's HB-LED Standards Committee has approved its first standard, specifying sapphire wafers used in making high-brightness light-emitting diode (HB-LED) devices. Sapphire wafers are used in producing HB-LED devices for multiple ...
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Spending on LED fab manufacturing equipment will decline 9.2% in 2013 as the industry faces weak long-term demand and consolidates manufacturing capacity. According to the SEMI LED/Opto Fab Forecast, spending on LED fab manufacturing ...
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There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
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