Qualcomm has a big, well-funded research and development operation, but its program for commercializing innovations is still a learning experience for the wireless chip maker. Qualcomm Labs was set up about two-and-a-half years ago to ...
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Through the investment, which is to be made by March 28, Samsung will become Sharp's fifth largest shareholder, with a 3.4% equity stake, surpassing the 2.56% stake of Qualcomm, the seventh largest shareholder, which last December decided ...
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One of the busiest weeks in consumer technology in Australia is under way with manufacturers announcing several new offerings for the local market. It starts with today's launch of the WB250F, the first of six in Samsung's new range of ...
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Samsung will acquire 3% of Sharp for 10.4 billion yen (HK$856.8 million) to secure liquid crystal displays for smartphones and televisions. It is emphasising OLED technology that offers sharper, brighter images while consuming less power. ...
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Samsung on Thursday confirmed reports by German media that it will stop selling its Windows RT tablet, the Ativ Tab, in Germany. The sales of the tablet will also be halted in other European countries, according to the German tech news ...
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Japan's Sharp has secured a $110 million lifeline investment from Samsung Electronics, and agreed to become a major supplier of screens for the South Korean company's growing electronics empire. The deal gives Samsung a steady supply of ...
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South Korean firm Samsung is to buy a three per cent stake in its Japanese rival Sharp for 10.4bn yen (£73m). Sharp has been struggling to restructure its operations as it continues to make losses; the firm has forecast its biggest ...
Samsung is to buy 3% of Sharp for $110m. Key to the deal is Samsung agreeing that it will have 'no involvement in Sharp's business development in any way or form.' It is thought that a potential deal with Foxconn foundered when the ...
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Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. The TI chips will be offered as part of Project Moonshot, which is HP's effort to ...
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Samsung’s imminent Galaxy S4 smartphone will launch in six different models. Samsung has announced that it will unveil the Galaxy S4 smartphone in less than two weeks on 14 March in New York. Now we’ve heard that the flagship ...
A version of LTE that could give consumers more mobile bandwidth for downloading content or apps is moving from the margins to the mainstream at Mobile World Congress this week. TD (Time-Division) LTE, which uses a single block of radio ...
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Sony Mobile will provide an experimental version of the Firefox OS on one of its smartphones so that advanced developers can try it out and start working on applications. Earlier this week, Sony said it is evaluating the Firefox OS ...
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ARM creates the intellectual property used in the designs of more than 95% of the smartphones in the world, but the company had only a small booth at the edge of Hall 6 at Mobile World Congress here this week. ARM, based in Cambridge, ...
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Dell today announced the availability of the Dell Wireless Dock, the industry's first docking station based on the multi-gigabit Tri-Band Wi-Fi standard (WiGig).The new wireless docking station is currently compatible with Dell's Latitude ...
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Sony's Xperia Tablet Z will go on sale globally in the second quarter, priced from$499in the U.S. The 10-inch tablet will be just 6.9 millimeters thick, with an 1,920 by 1,200 pixel HD screen and a new quad core processor from Qualcomm, ...
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