IDG News Service-HTC and Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced the Droid DNA smartphone,which comes with Android 4.1 and a 5-inch high-definition display that the company said is the most advanced in the market today. The Droid DNA ...
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IDG News Service-Intel is in final negotiations to invest up to$500 million in struggling Sharp of Japan,the Kyodo News agency reported Tuesday. Japan's largest news agency said the companies were discussing an investment of between 30 ...
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PC World-HP has long been a contributor to Linux and open-source software,but on Monday it ratcheted up its support another notch. Specifically,the company announced at the LinuxCon Europe event going on this week in Barcelona that it has ...
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IDG News Service - Five years after its inception, Android is more dominant than ever in the smartphone OS market, despite facing a number of challenges along the way. Android has endured legal battles, platform fragmentation, security ...
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Push-to-talk,once the killer app of Nextel's iDEN network and more recently a feature offered on certain Sprint Nextel phones,has finally made the transformation into a downloadable Android app called Sprint Direct Connect Now. The ...
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IDG News Service-Dell on Tuesday said its XPS 10 tablet with Windows RT will start at$499,matching the price of Microsoft's Surface tablet that became available last week. The XPS 10 has a 10-inch screen,weighs 635 grams,and provides ...
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Taipei,Oct.18,2012--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)has set up complete manufacturing eco system for Apple's application-specific IC(ASIC)contracts,in which Intel Corp.is also reportedly interested,according to Taiwan's industry ...
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Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will give the opening keynote at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in January, a logical choice for an event whose focus is increasingly mobile, but one that might not garner the attention of a Bill Gates or Steve ...
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Taipei,Oct.9,2012(CENS)--MediaTek Inc.became the world's No.3 supplier of smartphone processors in the first half of this year mostly thanks to strong market for low-priced smartphones of mainland China,where the Taiwanese fabless company ...
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Google has added to its list of acquisitions with the$45m(£28m)purchase of Ukrainian company Viewdle,while at the same time closing a number of unpopular services that have failed to catch on. Viewdle is a developer of facial ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)and Kinsus Interconnect Technology Co.,Ltd.would become the primary winners of Apple's added contracts for iPhone 5 chips,according to industry sources. Apple's supply chains have reportedly ...
Taipei,Sept.21,2012(CENS)--HTC Corp.,one of the world's leading smartphone vendors,debuted its first WP8 smartphones 8X and 8S on Sept.19 in New York,which will hit stores in November this year. The company has secured pledges with ...
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The race to manufacture the most power-efficient and fastest chips is gaining momentum, with contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries on Thursday announcing technology advances that analysts said could allow the company to catch ...
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Motorola Mobility has launched the MotorolaRAZR i smartphone which has a 2GHz Intel Atom as it media processor. Motorola RAZR i will be available in October in certain European markets including the UK,France and Germany. This is ...
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Samsung will announce a 5-in.Galaxy S4 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February,according to company officials and executives at parts suppliers quoted in The Korea Times. While an S4 announcement early next year was long ...
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