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Mobile industry champions paying with phones

Paying with a mobile phone is gradually become a reality for consumers, with banks, telecommunications operators and Internet players all jumping in to offer payment options.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Intel launches high-performance chips for workstations

The world's biggest chip maker Intel rolled out a line of "revolutionary" chips designed as high-performance engines for datacenters, work stations and research computers.

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Samsung seeks sales ban on iPhone 5

South Korea's Samsung Electronics will file lawsuits to try to block the sale of Apple's iPhone 5 as part of its global legal tussle with the US technology giant, a report said Tuesday.

Technology / Business

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Apple 'to design own computer chips'

Apple is building the capability to design its own computer chips in a strategic shift aimed at cutting its reliance on outside suppliers, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Intel teams with Google on smartphone chips

Intel on Tuesday announced that it has teamed with Google to tailor chips to get top performance out of smartphones powered by the Internet giant's Android software.

Technology / Business

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Bluetooth 3.0 Launches April 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- The short-range wireless standard Bluetooth 3.0 will officially launch on April 21. The Bluetooth 3.0 standard is expected to deliver faster short-range wireless speeds up to 480 Mb per second.

Technology / Telecom

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Qualcomm challenges LCDs through new e-reader

A new electronic display is poised to challenge power-hungry LCDs after U.S. mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. teamed up with a South Korean bookseller to introduce a new e-reader.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Designing the hardware

Computer chips' clocks have stopped getting faster. To maintain the regular doubling of computer power that we now take for granted, chip makers have been giving chips more "cores," or processing units. But ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Smartphones fuel Samsung profit to record

(AP) -- A surge in Galaxy smartphone sales fueled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a record high in the first quarter, usually a tough season for the global consumer electronics industry, outshining handset ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Apple's squeeze hits phone companies, competitors

(AP) -- Apple is set to report another record quarterly profit on Tuesday, continuing the relentless string of results that's made it the world's most valuable company. Those profits don't come out of thin air: A range of ...

Technology / Business

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Intel buys wireless chip tech in mobile-phone push (Update)

(AP) -- As the world's biggest maker of computer chips, Intel Corp. can't afford to ignore its huge blind spot in mobile phones.

Technology / Business

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Ultra-thin laptops set to dazzle CES gadget fair

Ultra-thin laptops will take center-stage alongside new software and smartphones at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a gadget extravaganza that officially opens on Tuesday in Las Vegas.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japanese chipmaker Elpida files for bankruptcy

(AP) -- Computer chipmaker Elpida Memory Inc. filed for Japan's largest manufacturing bankruptcy Monday after amassing debts from nose-diving prices, competition from Samsung and flooding in Thailand last ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Taiwan seeks merger with restructured Elpida

(AP) -- Taiwan's government said Wednesday it would continue to push for the consolidation of the island's memory chip makers with Elpida Memory Inc., two days after the Japanese chipmaker filed for bankruptcy.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Micron, Oracle settle lawsuit over chip prices

(AP) -- Micron Technology Inc. has settled a lawsuit in which Oracle Corp. accused the Idaho memory chipmaker and other companies of artificially inflating prices for microchips.

Technology / Business

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