Broadcom thinks it can make NFC a common smartphone feature by offering it in a chip with other wireless technologies, even if making payments with the technology doesn’t catch on for years. On Tuesday, the communications chip ...
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Analysts are sounding a proverbial death knell for e-readers,which have declined 36%in 2012 as buyers turned instead to multi-use tablets. Both IHS Suppli and IDC recently issued dire warnings,if not obituaries,for e-readers.IHS said ...
Independent benchmark tests by Futuremark have revealed that Microsoft's Surface tablet is surprisingly slow at Web browsing. When run through the Peacekeeper: Universal Browser Test, the Microsoft Surface speed test came out at just 348, ...
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Brewer Heineken is using videoconferencing from Polycom to improve communications between its London and Edinburgh offices and reduce travel. The Polycom RealPresence video collaboration product is being used to increase communication ...
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Google+ page has strongly suggested Google will reveal multiple Nexus smartphones on 29 October. The message on Google+ states that the current device, the Galaxy Nexus, will soon meet its ‘younger brother(s)’. Google is ...
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Google and LG are reportedly preparing to launch a Nexus smartphone modelled on the Optimus G. Like the Optimus G, the still-to-be-named new Nexus handset will be one of the first quad-core smartphones on the U.S. market when it ...
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Broadcom has unveiled a chip that could give mobile devices faster connections using Wi-Fi. The BCM4335 is the first mobile chip based on the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard. Branded as ‘5G Wi-Fi,’ the specification ...
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Germany-based Gerresheimer will be exhibiting innovative pharmaceutical packaging solutions at Pharmtech from 26-29 November 2012 in Moscow. Gerresheimer pre-sales support manager Bernd Zeiss will talk about the technological aspects of ...
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Taipei, Dec. 14, 2012 (CENS)--Contrasting most of their peers having carried out layoffs and unpaid furloughs to counter global economic doldrums, Asustek Computer Inc. and Acer Inc., Taiwan’s top two PC brand vendors, both have moved ...
Apple retained the top spot in a survey released by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which also found that the tablet market is spurring PC makers to improve the quality of their products. The satisfaction rate for computers, ...
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Dell has jumped feet first into the Windows 8 era of computing with a redesigned portfolio of business and consumer PCs. Built to best optimise Windows 8, Dell has delivered designs that make touch computing available to more customers than ...
Announcing its long-awaited assault on the crowded tablet market,Amazon unveiled three new Kindle Fire machines today,two of which will be available in the UK. During the presentation in California,Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said,"We want to ...
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Web usage on Research In Motion(RIM)BlackBerrys accounts for just one per cent of mobile traffic data,representing a 25 per cent drop since September 2011.The figures come from online ad network Chitika following research into mobile market ...
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It's the most wonderful time of the year. In the toy business, it's the time when we get to see which lines live up to the hype and go on to become best-sellers. But with 2013 now not too far away, you might be looking foward to what ...
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In one body I am the mum of a toddler, a kid that won't grow up, and a toy reviewer. So when they announce the toys that will be making Santa's lists this year, it's like I'm Meryl Streep when they announce the Oscar nominations – ...
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