Smartphones and tablets with the emerging Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, 802.11ac, will arrive early in the second half of this year, a Qualcomm executive said. Mobile devices based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series processors ...
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MasterCard on Monday revised its year-old mobile payment strategy by unveiling a digital, cloud-based service called MasterPass that moves well beyond near-field communication technology used in smartphones to support QR codes, traditional ...
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IBM is looking for ways to bring mobile and social workloads onto mainframes as a way of keeping the expensive machines competitive in today's changing IT landscape. This isn't the first time the company has tried to find new uses for ...
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Sequans Communications says its first LTE-Advanced chip will be sampling next quarter. Supporting 3GPP Release 10 specifications, the Cassiopeia chipset implements carrier aggregation of 40MHz total bandwidth. “The key feature is ...
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As the LED lighting market continues to flourish, Verbatim is rapidly introducing new high performance products to take advantage of this anticipated growth. Verbatim’s expansion into the LED sector represents the future for the ...
MOM Brands, a US-based producer of breakfast cereals, has unveiled new a new line of Spooners ready-to-eat cereal. Spooners ready-to-eat cereal is available in five varieties such as Mixed Berry Multigrain Spooners, Cinnamon Multigrain ...
Seven years after the release of the PlayStation 3, Sony has disclosed details about its new PlayStation 4 gaming console, which it said will be out by the end of this year. Sony introduced its latest console at an event in New York City ...
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Hewlett-Packard's first low-power server for hyperscale computing environments, developed under a project it calls Moonshot, will go on sale next quarter, CEO Meg Whitman said on Thursday. Project Moonshot is an effort to build low-power ...
IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced on Thursday that the firm’s first low-power server for hyperscale computing environments, developed under a project it calls Moonshot, will go on sale next quarter. The project is an effort ...
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Taiwan-based Csun Manufacturing has seen orders for LCD, PCB and semiconductor equipment rebound bringing the company's book-to-bill ratio to 1.5-1.8 recently, according to industry sources. In particular, orders for equipment used to ...
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Frito-Lay North America, a convenient foods business unit of PepsiCo, has introduced new Grilled Red Pepper and Tomato Salsa flavored tortilla chips under the Tostitos Artisan Recipes line. Made with a nine-grain blend and ingredients ...
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MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will lead the Emerging Non-Volatile Memory (ENVM) market, reaching a combined $1.6bn by 2018, says a report from analysts Yole Developpement. "By 2018, MRAM/STTMRAM and PCM will surely be the top two ENVM on the ...
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Advanced Micro Devices hopes to take on Intel's ultrabooks with a new keyboard docking technology that modifies the level of performance of thin-and-light hybrid devices when used in tablet or laptop modes. The company's Turbo Dock ...
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