A version of Microsoft's Age of Empires game franchise will be developed for iPhones and Android devices, the first time an official Microsoft title will be released for the mobile platforms. The initial title will be developed in English ...
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GaN LEDs set to top 100 billion units 25 Jun 2013 Shipments of the blue-emitting chips will reach new milestone this year, reports analyst company IHS. Analysts at the market forecasting company IMS Research (part of IHS) are expecting ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to investigate HTC for patent infringement based on a complaint Nokia filed in May that targets several phones from the Taiwanese handset maker, including the HTC One. Nokia's complaint ...
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Chip maker Qualcomm is introducing six new processors meant for entry-level phones in China and emerging markets. The processors are part of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 200 class, a chip line that offers support for lower-end specs compared to ...
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Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop (R) stands with Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, during the launch of a new Nokia Lumia phone. Source: AFP Microsoft was in talks to boost its position in the mobile phone market by buying ...
The emerging IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN standard will be able to deliver faster connections wherever it's used, but the biggest benefit may come at public hotspots -- eventually. On Wednesday, the Wi-Fi Alliance started certifying ...
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Sales of Sony's Xperia A smartphone have doubled those of the Samsung Galaxy S4 at Japan's main carrier, after a nationwide sales campaign that exclusively promoted the two handsets side-by-side. A screen shot from the website of NTT ...
When Nokia said the 808 PureView would be the company’s final Symbian-based smartphone, the company meant it – this time. The once mighty multi-vendor smartphone platform that endured an on-again, off-again relationship with ...
Panasonic and Fujifilm say they have developed a new image sensor using organic materials that is far more sensitive than anything currently on the market. The companies said their organic CMOS sensor has a dynamic range four times that ...
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Lite-On Technology has announced May consolidated revenues of the parent company and its subsidiaries of NT$16.49 billion (US$553 million), showing a sequential growth of 1%. Consolidated May revenues of the parent company were NT$10.31 ...
IBM has introduced the fifth generation of its semiconductor technology specialized for high-performance communications. The firm’s latest silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip-making process is designed to enable increasing amounts of data ...
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The technology will allow the increasing amounts of data to flow through network. IBM has introduced a fifth generation of semiconductor technology, 9HP silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip-making process for high performance communications. ...
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New research from Experian Marketing Services shows that iPhone owners spend 53.06 percent more time on their phones than Android users do. Does this suggest that iPhones are more useful than Android smartphones? The average iPhone ...
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Lenovo is in preliminary negotiations to start a joint venture with an unspecified party, the company said on Tuesday, setting off speculation that the company could be looking to bolster its expanding smartphone business. The Chinese PC ...
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ARM is targeting mid-range smartphones and tablets priced between US$200 and $350 with a new low-power Cortex-A12 processor the company announced Monday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The company's processors are used in most of ...
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