It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which ...
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Samsung has announced its next Exynos processor for smartphones and tablets, an 8-core chip that uses a novel architecture to provide more performance without sucking up battery life. The Exynos 5 Octa is essentially two quad-core chips ...
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The FCC plans to allocate more unlicensed spectrum for Wi-Fi to improve performance in crowded public places and in homes, looking to head off a future spectrum crunch. Wi-Fi users will share that spectrum with the U.S. Department of ...
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Point-of-view camera makers iON and GoPro hawked new devices at the International CES,in the wake of explosive growth in the market in recent years. To see coverage of iON's and GoPro's newest cameras,watch a video on YouTube. IDC ...
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Fabless semiconductor maker Wilocity and Qualcomm announced what they're calling the first multi-gigabit wireless chipset reference architecture based on the new WiGig 60GHz and IEEE 802.11ad standards for high-speed downloads,docking and ...
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The latest TVs and tablets are only part of the fun that International CES has to offer.This is about the biggest tech trade show in the world,after all,with thousands of vendors falling over each other to get noticed.Live demos go ...
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Computerworld - Users will some day soon toss aside their keyboard and mouse because their computers will understand their hand gestures and even the look on their face. That's Intel's vision anyway. The world's largest chip maker is ...
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Panasonic on Tuesday showed off a 20-inch tablet with a 4K screen that can display images at a resolution of 3840-by-2160 pixels and is designed to improve multimedia tasks such as photo editing. The tablet was unveiled during a keynote ...
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Watch movies in the shower, capture HDR video, or just use it to make phone calls. Sony says it has something for everyone in its new Xperia Z smartphone, the company's flagship handset for 2013. The phone, which was unveiled on Monday at ...
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Qualcomm's keynote at the International CES was packed with big names and even a Big Bird, but CEO Paul Jacobs' focus was on something much smaller -- a new family of processors aimed at high-end smartphones and tablets. The Snapdragon ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS -- Vint Cerf, known as the father of the Internet, says technology has not only changed the way we communicate but it's changing the way we live our lives. Vint Cerf, widely known as the father of the ...
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IDG News Service - Qualcomm called on some big names Monday to ensure its opening-night keynote at the International CES wasn't a dud. Steve Ballmer, Big Bird, the pop group Maroon5, and even former Archbishop Desmond Tutu all made ...
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IDG News Service - Raising the bar for image quality on television sets, Panasonic unveiled a 56-inch OLED TV that shows images at 4K resolution, four times the overall resolution of current 1080p high-definition TVs. The new TV was shown ...
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IDG News Service - As TVs get higher resolution and bigger displays, while getting cheaper over time, cable operators may be able to cover an entire wall of your home with a screen that includes two full-size TV shows plus weather, upcoming ...
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Computerworld - LAS VEGAS - Ford Motor Co. is looking to integrate drivers' favorite apps into their cars, giving them someone to read them the morning newspaper, along with an app to find them the site of their next great date. Ford ...
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