The Search Agency, a global online marketing firm and the largest independent U.S. search marketing agency, today announced the results of its 2012 Online User Behavior and Engagement Study, conducted online by Harris Interactive in August ...
Tags: Smartphone, Couples Favor Tablets, Study, Consumer Electronics
In a matter of days many homes will be swarming with all manner of friends and relatives and the treats, decorations and messes they leave behind. Don't be surprised if you have wine spilled on your oriental carpet or candle wax melted on ...
Tags: holiday mishaps, carpet Spills, fabric Spills, cleaning skills
With the Ford Falcon having posted its lowest-ever sales result in 2012, and falling out of the top 20 sales charts by one spot, the new year is a good time to pause, reflect, and ponder again if Australians really are missing out on a good ...
IDG News Service - A long-running legal dispute between Marin County, Calif., Deloitte Consulting and SAP over a troubled software project has concluded in a legal settlement this week that will reportedly net the county far less money than ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which ...
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Samsung has announced its next Exynos processor for smartphones and tablets, an 8-core chip that uses a novel architecture to provide more performance without sucking up battery life. The Exynos 5 Octa is essentially two quad-core chips ...
Tags: 3D video gaming, CES Las Vegas, Exynos 5 Octa, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung
Nvidia introduced its fastest processor for mobile devices, the Tegra 4, and has designed it into its first gaming portable gaming platforms. Previously codenamed “Wayne,” Tegra 4 is based around a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 ...
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ST-Ericsson has announced its fastest LTE smartphone platform, the NovaThor L8580 ModAp has an eQuad application processor running at up to 2.5GHz. The NovaThor L8580 will be available to sample in Q1 2013. It is built on 28nm ...
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We roundup some of the major electronics news stories from CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2013, which runs 8 - 11 January in Las Vegas. Thursday 10 January CES: LG unveils curved OLED TV LG debuts a curved model of its OLED TV ...
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Chinese chip firm Allwinner expected to discuss its quad ARM core A31 SoC at CES. At its heart are four ARM Cortex-7 processors with 256kbyte L1 cache and 1Mbyte L2 cache. On-die alongside these is a eight core PowerVR SGX 544MP2 ...
Tags: Allwinner, ARM Cortex 7, cache, company news
Raspberry Pi interface board PiFace will be shipping to the public in the next few weeks. The board adds eight output and eight inputs to Raspberry Pi, as well as various LEDs, switches, and a couple of relays. Most ...
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A US firm has unveiled a WiFi-enabled magnum that talks to smartphone apps and uploads shooting data to Facebook and Twitter. TrackingPoint, an applied technology company based in Austin, Texas, launched what is likely to be a ...
Tags: WiFi rifle, CES, smartphone apps, Facebook
Semi-conductors supplier ST-Ericsson last night unveiled a mobile device chipset that it says will add five hours to the battery life of smartphones once adopted by industry. The Swiss based company, which supplies chipsets and ...
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A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defense, space and other industries with a retail value of more than US$100 million. Xiang Li, 36, and a partner sold cracked copies of software from ...
Tags: pirated software, cracked copies of software, software, retail
Our Rating: Performance, Ride & Handling 4 Comfort and Interior 4.5 Quality & Design 4.5 Value & Features 3.5 Safety 5 Green 3.5 Few nameplates say ‘executive express’ quite as succinctly as the BMW 550i. For ...
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