Advanced Micro Devices has announced a new strategy that could lead to A games that A run in the future across PCs and games consoles like the Xbox and PlayStation. AMD's next-generation chip code-named Kaveri The company announced ...
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Apple on Tuesday updated OS X Mountain Lion, likely for one of the last times, with a combination of compatibility and reliability bug fixes as well as vulnerability patches. The update to OS X 10.8.4 -- the first from Apple since ...
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Google is pushing out a software update for Glass that improves the capabilities of one of the most popular features - the camera. The automatic update will be sent to Glass users over the next few days, according to a blog post on the ...
Developer tool company AppGyver loves the PhoneGap platform, but is convinced there is room for productivity and performance improvements and is working on products to achieve both. AppGyver has released a public beta of Steroids ...
After years of Windows OS exclusivity, Advanced Micro Devices is opening the door to design chips to run Google's Android and Chrome OS in PCs and tablets. AMD is expanding OS options as it designs chips based on x86 and ARM architecture, ...
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New driver IC architecture seeks to reduce bill of materials cost in 8–15W retrofit lamps while still supporting smooth dimming over a 1–100% range. iWatt has introduced the iW3202/08 LED driver ICs that primarily target ...
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Should Microsoft merge its smartphone and tablet/laptop/desktop operating systems into one substantial OS? It's not just a theoretical question prompted by an older "write once, run anywhere" development mindset. Merging the Windows Phone ...
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Don't like the song playing on the stereo? Just wave it goodbye, literally. That's the vision of a team of researchers at the University of Washington's Networks Lab, who are developing a new gesture recognition technology called "WiSee," ...
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mCube, the leading supplier of single-chip MEMS motion sensors and software, today announced availability of the GO2OTM Pedestrian Navigation Engine, offering improved indoor navigation capabilities for motion sensor-equipped mobile ...
Plenty of eyes may be focused on Google Glass as the device attracts attention in the field of "augmented reality," but a crop of other players developing their own glasses-like products are also hoping to stand out as the industry matures. ...
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A real estate developers group, led by SOHO China Limited (SEHK: 0410) CEO Zhang Xin, spent USD 700 million buying 40% shares in General Motors (GM) Building located in New York, the US to create the largest real estate investment made by ...
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Google wants more developers to use its App Engine cloud service, and has launched Mobile Backend Starter to make it easier. Running servers on top of a hosted environment to power mobile apps can be a bit of a headache, according to ...
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Informatica has given its virtual data machine technology a proper name and is planning to create versions of it that can run on anything from high-end servers in private data centers to small devices and sensors. Dubbed Vibe, the "VDM ...
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Smartphone owners who also have a tablet spend three times as much on apps as those who only own smartphones, according to a survey by research and consulting firm Analysys Mason. The finding is an argument for wireless carriers and app ...
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Development platform vendor Verivo Software wants to provide the back end for mobile enterprise apps to make it easier for corporate programmers to add features such as off-line access and authentication. As company CEO Steve Levy puts ...
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