BlackBerry has announced its fourth new BlackBerry 10-based smartphone of the year with the Z30, a five-inch screen device that will become the company's flagship smartphone. The OLED touchscreen will offer a resolution of 1,280 by 768 - ...
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UK-based Drayson Racing Technologies (DRT), the low-carbon motorsport and electric vehicle R&D business, has signed a wireless electric vehicle charging (WEVC) licence agreement with Qualcomm Incorporated in order to include Qualcomm Halo ...
The all-electric FIA Formula E championship, set to debut in 2014, has signed a sponsorship deal that aims to see wireless charging used extensively in the electric racing series. The deal with wireless technology developer Qualcomm, ...
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Computer chip manufacturer AMD has announced plans to expand its business into new markets by providing new embedded chips for devices away from its traditional PC base. The decision, which will see AMD produce microprocessors and ...
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Qualcomm on Wednesday announced its own smartwatch that will have a low-power Mirasol display and be compatible with Android mobile devices. The smartwatch, called Toq (pronounced “talk”), will ship in the fourth quarter this ...
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China’s Xiaomi is bringing the low-price strategy that has driven its success in mobile phones to the country’s smart TV arena with a new 47-inch television that it says is the most affordable on the market. The Xiaomi TV runs ...
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A smartwatch from Samsung Electronics, the Galaxy Note III from Samsung, an Acer smartphone that can shoot 4K video and a Sony one with a 20-megapixel sensor, plus a plethora of tablets and TVs are all expected at this year's IFA consumer ...
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Tech companies are hanging onto record amounts of cash, and industry watchers want to see more of it reinvested in the companies or distributed to shareholders. FactSet, a financial research firm, tallied all the cash and marketable ...
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Total smartphone application processor (AP) shipments to the China market came to 92.1 million units in the second quarter of 2013, up 13.1% sequentially and 84.4% on year, buoyed mainly by robust growth in MediaTek's shipments to the ...
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Last Friday, Qualcomm Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell Omnitracs to Vista Equity Partners to the tune of $800 million in cash. It's a big price tag for a telematics solution and, if anything, signals that ...
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Intel plans to become a leader in wireless and will ship its first?multi-mode?LTE processor later this month as part of that drive. The XMM 7160, a modem chip for mobile devices, can be equipped to work on as many as 15 LTE spectrum bands ...
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Semiconductor giant Intel is to start producing mobile and embedded systems using its latest manufacturing process technology in a bid to muscle in on a market that it had previously ignored. The company is planning to launch a number of ...
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Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has announced a global partnership between the social media network and other technology firms, with the aim of making internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that are not yet connected. ...
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Facebook and six other tech companies have launched a joint project called Internet.org which aims to connect the two-thirds of the global population that is not currently linked to the Internet. The other founding members of the project ...
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Nokia is to release its own tablet computer running Windows RT in September, according to sources in China, where it will be made. The device will feature a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 and will include support for 4G wireless ...