IDG News Service-British chip designer Imagination Technologies plans to acquire the operating business of processor maker MIPS Technologies,as well as some of its patents,in an effort to strengthen its position on smartphones.At the same ...
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IDG News Service-Google released a Chrome browser update with a video decoding enhancement that the company claims will help users save battery life. The feature,available for Chrome on Windows,cuts power consumption by executing video ...
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Virtual Piggy Inc. announced that it has signed agreements with four fashion companies: All The Above, As Is, Violet Love and Sub_Urban RIOT. These brands will soon feature Virtual Piggy's innovative safe youth payments technology. All ...
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Amazon has introduced the second generation of its EC2 computing on-demand infrastructure as a service cloud service, with higher performance processing designed for larger applications. The Second Generation Standard Instances offer 50% ...
Tags: Larger, Workloads, infrastructure
Cross-platform development frameworks such as Apache Cordova, Sencha Touch and Xamarin.Mobile are all compatible with Windows Phone 8, making it easier to create apps for the new OS while at the same time developing apps for other ...
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Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic illness that affects the lungs and digestive systems of 30,000 adults and children in the United States today.To combat this statistic,a local father created and just today launched a phone app to help him ...
Tags: Cystic Fibrosis, genetic illness, phone app, Jason Phipps
IDG News Service-The U.S.Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory on Monday completed the deployment of a 20-petaflop supercomputer called Titan,which the lab hopes will give the U.S.an edge over China and Japan in the race to ...
Tags: U.S.supercomputing, 20-petaflop Titan, U.S.DOE, ORNL
Kalray has completed the design of a three billion transistor processor array and it used a Mentor Graphics functional verification, physical design and verification, and design-for-test flow. The France-based fabless semiconductor ...
Tags: Transistor, transistor processor array, semiconductor, MPPA-256 processor
In the months before the Holiday Season (I know, I know – it's a drag to hear about that before Halloween has even arrived ...) something kicks in for many homeowners when it comes to affecting transformations in their spaces, ...
Tags: Kitchen remodel, kitchens, better use of space, Kitchen Color
New processors for projection and LED sources to make public debut in Amsterdam Calibre UK will get 2013 off to a breathtaking start as it celebrates 25 years in business at Integrated Systems Europe. The Yorkshire, UK-based manufacturer ...
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The French government is supporting the creation of a number of collaborative research programmes in areas such as 3D semiconductor research,automotive electronic systems and nanotechnologies for smartphones. At the heart of many of these ...
US-based energy drinks producer Hiball, which has temperature-activated ink being newly encased in cans, has entered into new sales and marketing partnership with incubator L.A. Libations The package, developed by Hiball, features cold ...
Tags: package, energy drinks producer, glass, cans, Chromatic Technologies
Along with the long-rumored iPad Mini, Apple yesterday also refreshed its two best-selling Macs, the 13-in. MacBook Pro and the iMac. The MacBook Pro got most of the attention, as it followed its larger sibling, the 15-in. notebook by the ...
Ceefax, the original "information superhighway", will cease to exist on Wednesday when the last analogue television signal in the UK is switched off. Arising out of a brainstorming session at the BBC in the early 1970s, the pioneering ...
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Bang! Bang! Flip T-Shirts, an online urban apparel retailer, announces its fall collection by offering up their bold, quirky designs on long sleeve tees, crew-neck sweatshirts and hoodies. "Over the Rainbow," their fresh selection of ...
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