Microsoft is making $2bn every year in patent licensing for Android, according to Nomura financial analyst Rick Sherlund. However, the 95 per cent profit margins it enjoys as a result of the popularity of Android is covering up deep ...
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Lextar Electronics, a Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED packaging house, generated net earnings per share (EPS) of NT$1.82 for January-September 2013, according to the company. Lextar recorded consolidated revenues ...
Tags: taiwan, security market, Electrical, Electronics
By using a unique silicon fin replacement process, Imec of Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated what it claims are the first III-V compound semiconductor FinFET devices integrated epitaxially on 300mm silicon wafers. The nanoelectronics ...
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Seeing the notebook industry suffering from weak demand, Taiwan-based cooling fan maker Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry has turned its focus to non-PC product businesses with the notebook cooling fan business currently accounting for ...
Rockstar, the group that bought Nortel's patents in 2011 following the company's bankruptcy, has taken aim at Google, HTC, Samsung and Huawi for alleged patent infringement. Google itself is accused of seven different counts of patent ...
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Sony has slashed its profit forecast for 2013 by 40 per cent, meaning the technology giant now expects to make only £190m. The company had originally estimated it would make a profit of 50bn yen (£372.4m), but after its Q3 ...
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Sony today announced the Middle East and Africa launch of its Xperia C, a dual SIM Android smartphone. The phone can accommodate two interchangeable 3G and 2G SIM cards, and has a 1.2 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor It comes ...
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Changhong displayed China's first curved LED TV at their digital home booth themed "where imagination takes flight" at the High-Tech & Science Expo that took place in Sichuan, China on October 15, 2013. Last month at the Internationale ...
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4K UHD TVs are unquestionably a market highlight this year. QD Vision and Sony have joined forces to work on QD technology to reach higher color rendering and a wider color spectrum by using high pressure technology to seal quantum dot and ...
Tags: QD Vision, UHD TV market
In recent years, TV has shifted from LED to OLED technology, while High Definition (HD) is moving towards Ultra High Definition (UHD), indicating restructure of the global TV industry. Korean manufacturers that are currently the ...
Valve, the company behind the popular Steam games website and portal, has released the technical specifications of its Steambox, a games console intended to take the popular service from the desktop PC to the living room. Valve started ...
One problem in developing more efficient organic LED light bulbs and displays for TVs and phones is that much of the light is polarized in one direction and thus trapped within the LED. University of Utah physicists believe they have solved ...
AT&T will soon launch Sony's Xperia TL smartphone,which features Near Field Communication(NFC)as well as LTE wireless.Pricing was not announced. Sony announced the Xperia T series of smartphones in late August at the IFA show in ...
Three cities in east China's Zhejiang Province started selling the country's first fourth-generation (4G) mobile phones on Saturday Four smartphone models produced by Samsung, Sony, ZTE and Coolpad are now available for purchase in ...
Tags: Smartphone, 4G Network
Automakers from around the world have made a significant impact on the 2013 Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) ranking of the most innovative companies. Traditionally the realm of technology and telecommunications companies, automotive ...
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