The EU will not accept any moves by the Americans to water down rules about the collection of individual personal information by companies, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said today inBrussels. “If companies outside Europe ...
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Chip revenues from automotive infotainment will reach grow 3% to $6.says IHS last year they grew 4%. In the next five years they will grow to $8.54bn. The slowdown this year is due to flagging sales in the aftermarket and portable ...
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The Boston Viridis ARM based servers will use the Breeze tool of Cambridge software company Ellexus to migrate x86 applications to ARM. "Our software, Breeze is being promoted by Boston and ARM as a tool to ease the migration from x86 to ...
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Samsung was the largest applicant for European patents last year. Siemens, BASF, Ericsson and Bosch were all in the top ten for applications and, for the first time, A Chinese company – ZTE – made it into the top ten. The ...
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died Tuesday in Caracas after an almost two-year battle with cancer and 14 years of a dominating socialist presidency that leaves the country with the world's largest oil reserves mired in uncertainty. The ...
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is out of safe mode and back on active status after computer trouble had sidelined the vehicle for nearly a week. The space agency reported that Curiosity is now running on its backup computer system, known as ...
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IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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VMware's Horizon Mirage 4.0 allows IT departments to be more flexible when they put together centrally managed desktop images using separated application packages. VMware lives and breathes desktop virtualization, but enterprises still ...
EMC today released its first, purpose-built, all-solid state drive (SSD) array that is based on its XtremIO acquisition last year, as well as new software that identifies server flash throughout a data center and allows it to be managed ...
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A computer problem onboard the Mars rover Curiosity has forced NASA scientists to put the rover into safe mode while they try to bring a backup system online and try to figure out what is wrong with the main computer. "We are doing ...
Several Toyota Prius drivers have reported complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website describing visibility issues with their front windshields. A common theme in the complaints is that consumers are ...
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Every month Google publishes the relative number of (active) devices running a given version of the Android platform, and the figures for the last month have just been released. The main points of interest this month are that Android 4.1 ...
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The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
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Given the dazzle of the Galaxies, Droids, and other star smart phones, it's easy to overlook the many less expensive, less promoted phones on the market. Some new models in our latest phone Ratings are easy to use, easy on the wallet, and ...
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Furniture/Today invites companies introducing new furniture, rugs and bedding products at the spring High Point Market to submit information and photos for editorial coverage of the market. The deadline for submissions is March 22. The ...
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