The successor to LG's Optimus G smartphone, due sometime in the third quarter, will run a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the companies announced late Wednesday. The 800 series chip is notable for integrating support for faster ...
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Taiwan's HTC has unveiled an updated version of its 5-inch Butterfly smartphone that comes equipped with a bigger battery, more powerful processor and the company's BlinkFeed homescreen. The Butterfly s, introduced Wednesday, appears to ...
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Intel has joined The Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP), an industry group that hopes its "flexible wireless power" specification for mobile wireless charging can become an industry standard. Founded by Qualcomm and Samsung, A4WP claims ...
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AT&T and NEC Corporation of America today announced Friday's launch of the ultimate workhorse among ruggedized 4G LTE smartphones, the NEC Terrain™. The NEC Terrain is equipped with AT&T Enhanced Push-to-Talk (EPTT), and it ...
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Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner. The company released on Tuesday its CUDA 5.5 programming tools, which will for the first ...
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Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of supporting LTE-Advanced 4G networks -- which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE -- in South Korea this month. No U.S. wireless carrier is ...
In its latest report ‘Global and China GaAs Industry Report, 2012-2013’ market analayst firm Research In China summarizes that in first-half 2013 the biggest news in the gallium arsenide industry was Qualcomm’s ...
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Ailing Japanese TV maker Sharp says it will try to break into a host of new industries, from industrial cleaning robots to raising strawberries, to supplement its core LCD business. At an open house at its research facility in Nara, ...
Nvidia's Shield is complementary to gaming consoles for now, but the company hopes that wide adoption of Android gaming ultimately could make the $349 handheld an alternative to Xbox and PlayStation. Nvidia Shield gaming handheld front ...
A top Intel executive said the power and performance battle with ARM is over, because Intel's upcoming chips based on its Silvermont architecture are ahead on key metrics required to deliver strong performance and battery life on ...
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Schneider National is installing new tracking technology across its fleet of van trailers and intermodal containers. The new technology from Qualcomm is designed to provide continuous, real-time information regarding the location and load ...
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Surging tablet sales and the muted response to Windows 8 have opened the door for Android at this year's Computex and exposed deeper cracks in the Wintel powerhouse of Windows software and Intel chips. Microsoft and Intel have dominated ...
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Microsoft is bringing its Outlook email program to Windows 8 RT in a bid to expand the availability of Windows tablets based on low-power ARM processors. Outlook will be included with version 8.1 of Windows RT, known previously as Windows ...
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Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are working on products that will power small mobile base stations, also known as small cells, and help improve indoor coverage and speeds for enterprises. Small cells can be used in homes, public spaces and ...
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Qualcomm has announced a new processor and modem combination that will open the door for cheaper LTE smartphones. The chip maker has expanded its Snapdragon 400 family with the introduction of a quad-core processor with multimode 3G and ...