Qualcomm called on some big names Monday to ensure its opening-night keynote at the International CES wasn't a dud.Steve Ballmer,Big Bird,the pop group Maroon5,and even former Archbishop Desmond Tutu all made appearances to keep things ...
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IDG News Service - Nvidia has unveiled its Tegra 4 processor, a chip that will bring consumers more power in mobile devices and help Nvidia remain competitive in the fast moving mobile market. The Tegra 4 is based on ARM's quad-core ...
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Sony has faced up to its recent failures and admitted it's forgotten how to "wow" an audience at the first official day of CES 2013 in Las Vegas today. "We used to make people say 'wow' all the time," announced a voiceover before the ...
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Day one of the Consumer Entertainment Show(CES)2013 in Las Vegas has seen a couple of reveals to potentially bend the rules of the existing mobile technology market. First up was the unveiling of Nvidia's Tegra 4 mobile chip,which the ...
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Think your high-definition TV is hot stuff - as sharp as it gets? At the biggest trade show in the Americas, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas, TV makers will be doing their best to convince you that HDTVs are old hat, and should make ...
The long courtship between the Wi-Fi Alliance and the Wireless Gigabit Alliance, which promotes a fast wireless LAN technology that runs on very high frequencies, is set to end in marriage just a little too late for the International CES ...
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Major shareholder wants a peek at the books. The New York State Common Retirement Fund (Fund) has filed a suit against Qualcomm in a Delaware court seeking the right to inspect the company's books and records to see whether shareholder's ...
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Microsoft won't have its signature mega-booth at International CES 2013 starting next week in Las Vegas,but that's not expected to lessen the trade show's impact,or largesse. Show organizers said there will be 3,200 exhibitors and they ...
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IDG News Service-Qualcomm Atheros is rolling out StreamBoost,a technology that will be used in Wi-Fi routers and gateways to improve the performance of movies and games streamed over wireless home networks. While the new 802.11ac standard ...
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IDG News Service-China's largest search engine Baidu said on Monday the company would provide 30GB of free cloud storage to Android devices built with certain Qualcomm chips,in what's the latest move by the company to carve out a presence ...
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IDG News Service-Lenovo is challenging Google's Nexus 7 tablet with a new range of affordable IdeaTab tablets,which start at$299 and have the Android 4.0 OS. The US$299 IdeaTab A2109 comes with a 7-inch screen,while the$399 IdeaTab S2110 ...
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Computerworld-Intel's former head of Ultra Mobility,hired Monday to become Qualcomm's chief marketing officer,shows that the San Diego-based chip maker is finally serious about marketing,one analyst said. The hiring of Anand ...
Samsung is building a tablet based on Windows RT for release sometime in October, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Bloomberg news service. Samsung joins Acer and Asus, among other device makers, to build the touchscreen ...
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Tech stocks are ending the first half of the year on an upbeat note with news that enterprise spending on software lately has been relatively strong. On Friday shares of computer companies led a U.S. market rally in the wake of reports ...
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Google-owned Motorola Mobility's acquisition of Viewdle this week, a jump in the number of visitors to the insideAR conference and Nokia's recent launch of the City Lens application all illustrate growing interest in augmented reality. ...
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