ARM has had a boost from Facebook by being added to Facebook's Open Compute Project.This means that Facebook and other server customers will buy servers from companies which use both x86 processors and ARM processors. The Open Compute ...
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Unit shipments of PC microprocessors to rise 3.2%. Worldwide revenues for microprocessors designed for mobile PCs, desktop PCs, and PC servers are expected to increase by 1.6% to $40.7bn in 2013, according to a new forecast report from ...
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Casual games like Angry Birds and Where's my Water? are fun and work well on smart phones and tablets. But more complex games (such as Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour) that we used to see only on larger platforms ...
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The Anglepoise lamp is a balanced-arm lamp designed in 1932 by British designer George Carwardine. Early Anglepoise lamp History and development Carwardine was a car designer and was, at the time he invented the Anglepoise lamp, a ...
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Asustek has lowered starting prices for Android tablets, announcing the $149 Memo Pad tablet, which has a 7-inch screen and Android 4.1. Android tablet prices from top vendors hit lows last year, with Google's 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet and ...
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The NRF Foundation, the non-profit arm of the National Retail Federation, announced that Mindy Grossman, CEO, HSNi, was elected as the new chair of its Board of Directors for a two-year term. Ms. Grossman replaces Kip Tindell, chairman and ...
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Microsoft sold just one million Surface tablets in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to UBS analyst Brent Thill. That's 19 million fewer than the number of iPads sold by Apple in the same quarter, and half the number Thill originally ...
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Day two of the 2013 North American auto show has given Honda the opportunity to show the next evolution of the Honda NSX concept it brought to Detroit one year ago, further building anticipation about the next iteration of the iconic ...
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Following on from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Asus on Monday announced the Memo Pad ME172V, a seven-inch Android tablet that will be priced at US$149 (AED 547). This is the latest tablet to join a pack of recently ...
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Regarding safety, an industrial panel saw is similar to other woodworking machines: to avoid injury, you have to take precautions while using it. To help prevent injuries in the workplace, woodworking factories make sure employees are aware ...
Hot Butter Studio has created an infographic about the iconic LEGO Minifigure. It charts the history of the toy from the release of the first Minifigure pre-cursors (the Maxifig in 1974 and the arm-less minifig of 1975) through to the ...
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The board of Russia's X5 Retail Group has nominated interim CEO Stephan DuCharme to take the post permanently, as new figures show that store openings lifted the firm's sales in 2012. DuCharme, who's appointment is still subject to ...
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Microsoft and a respected researcher disagreed this week about whether a bug in Windows RT is actually a security vulnerability that should be patched. The bug, revealed Jan. 5 by a hacker known as "clrokr," can be used to bypass a ...
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Dutch food group Vion has entered into a deal to sell its frozen vegetables, fruit and potato products firm Oerlemans Foods to fresh vegetables producer Baltussen Holding. The struggling meat processor, which this month finalised a deal ...
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Atmel has expanded its ARM Cortex-M4 processor-based flash microcontroller family to include devices with extra connectivity peripherals, a floating point unit (FPU), analogue capabilities, and higher processing power. The SAM4E ...
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