Google has admitted it will incur costs of $300m as "severance-related charges" following its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. Google revealed in August it would be slashing 20% of the Motorola workforce, as it planned to move away from ...
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EE has confirmed the launch date for its 4G services as 30 October 2012,which will make it the first operator to offer the faster mobile connectivity in the UK. The announcement was made by the company's CEO,Olaf Swantee,who called the ...
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Research in Motion(RIM)will launch its upcoming mobile operating system(OS)–BlackBerry 10 or BB10–in January 2013. Rob Orr,RIM managing director UK and Ireland,let the date slip in an interview with Computer Weekly,but denied ...
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IDG News Service - Toyota is demonstrating a new single-seater concept car at this year's Ceatec electronics show that works as a giant extension of the driver's smartphone. The company's "Smart INSECT" vehicle has a pad in its dashboard ...
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According to the recently released Strategy Analytics and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service(GaAs)Forecast and Outlook'GaAs Industry Forecast:2011-2016',the overall gallium arsenide device market grew by 6%to a record$5.2bn in ...
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With every iPhone launch comes fans waiting outside Apple stores in New York,and it was no different for the iPhone 5,which went on sale Friday. The iPhone 5,which Apple touts as the"thinnest,lightest and fastest"smartphone ever,has a ...
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Ascent Solar stock tumbles on public offering news 20 Sep 2012 Struggling manufacturer of thin-film photovoltaic films looks to raise cash to bolster weak balance sheet. Victor Lee Ascent Solar,the developer of flexible copper indium ...
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has selected CMOS-based PAs from Javelin Semiconductor Inc of Austin,TX,USA to support its new Galaxy S Duos Android-based smartphone,which features a 4-inch touchscreen,1 GHz processor,5 megapixel ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors)has received the Best Vendor and Outstanding Delivery awards from ZTE.??Skyworks has supported ZTE's RF business without a ...
GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volumes of its ALT6181 multimode multiband power amplifier (MMPA) to Samsung Electronics for the new Galaxy S ...
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IDG News Service-Intel has ported Google's Android 4.1 OS,called Jelly Bean,to work on smartphones based on the low-power Atom chips code-named Medfield. "I'm running it,"said Mike Bell,Intel's vice president and general manager of the ...
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One thing's certain,analysts said today:Just hours from now,Apple will hit a home run when it unveils its next iPhone. Beyond that,consensus among the experts was as hard to reach as a coterie from the United Nations agreeing on what to ...
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Everything Everywhere is set to launch high-speed 4G mobile networking in the UK with download speeds at a maximum of up to 40Mbps. Everything Everywhere – now rebranded "EE" – will launch the service before the end of the ...
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China plans to issue 4G licenses for LTE TDD networks within around one year, according to a top government official, speeding up the original timetable for deployment of the high-speed networks in the country. Miao Wei, the head of ...
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The ARM Cortex-A15 will be out in handsets by the end of the year,says Laurence Bryant,director of ARM's mobile solutions group. Asked if the problems with 28nm supply would affect that aspiration,Bryant replied:"From what I hear,there ...
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