Advanced Micro Devices' financial struggles continued in the fourth quarter, with revenue sinking 32 percent due to slow chip sales and charges tied to restructuring and inventory adjustments. AMD reported revenue of US$1.16 billion for ...
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VTech is stepping outdoors with its latest toy line, Kidiactive, which adds electronic features to the flying disc, the ball and the skipping rope. The VTech Talking Disc features a recording button and four funny face buttons for ...
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Tablets and smartphones will give a much-needed boost this year to the worldwide microprocessor market, which is undergoing a fundamental change with a shift to low-power processors used in energy-efficient devices, research firm IC ...
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Microsoft has identified 13 PC resellers based in Shanghai that it claims have been distributing counterfeit versions of its Windows OS, and the company could take legal action against them if a settlement isn't reached. Microsoft made ...
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New Firefox phones - the first in a slew of new smartphones based on operating system alternatives to Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone - will be launched in February. Created by a Spanish startup called Geeksphone, the ...
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Mentor Graphics has introduced a hardware emulation platform for ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-based system-on-chip (SoC) device designs. Working with the firm's Veloce2 emulator, the system, called isolve, will test embedded ...
A Tuesday report from CNBC hinted that Microsoft may be planning to invest between $1 billion and $3 billion as part of a leveraged buyout of Dell. Citing “sources close to the matter,” the network’s David Faber said ...
The worldwide microprocessor market will be given a boost by tablets and smartphones in 2012, amidst a fundamental shift to low-power processors used in energy-efficient devices, research firm IC Insights said this week. Worldwide ...
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Jumbo Games has kicked off 2013 with the launch of SoccerSuckers, a new range of rubberised football players from some five of the Premier League’s top clubs. The SoccerSuckers are 3D football player characters from five of ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,26 commodities increased in prices, 28 fell and 45 remained unchanged on 21/01/2013.The largest rises were Hydrochloric acid (1.63%),Methanol (1.60%),Silver (1.09%),while ...
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Tablet processor sales are expected to grow 50% in 2013. , while cellphone application processor sales by 28% Improvement in global PC demand and continued growth in mobile SoC processors are expected to drive sales of microprocessors ...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is bringing its technical and management staff to China for the first time as a way to increase collaboration between the nation's Internet industry and the Web standards group. W3C said on Sunday it ...
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Intel saw its sales and profits drop in 2012 as the company was hit by slower demand for personal computers and its continued inability to make it big in the smartphone and tablet markets, although its data center business continued to ...
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Visual 2000 International Inc. announces the second major release of its Adobe Illustrator Plug-In for Visual PLM.net. A follow up to the initial launch in September 2012, Version 2 provides fashion and technical designers with more robust ...
Dell is said to be close to being bought out for about $24bn (£15.1bn) as the crisis amid PC makers takes its toll on one of the world's largest technology firms. The company, which has switched its focus from producing PCs to ...
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