News tagged with mobile industry
Chinese 'Red Pad' tablet reserved for top officials
For the communist cadre who has everything, a shadowy Chinese company is offering a $1,590 tablet computer called the "Red Pad" reserved for the nation's top officials.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Quantum tunneling results in record transistor performance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling power consumption in mobile devices and large scale data centers is a pressing concern for the computer chip industry. Researchers from Penn State and epitaxial wafer maker IQE ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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New 3-D transistors promising future chips, lighter laptops
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Purdue and Harvard universities have created a new type of transistor made from a material that could replace silicon and have a 3-D structure instead of conventional flat computer chips.
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Toshiba to shut three Japan semiconductor plants
Electronics and manufacturing giant Toshiba said Wednesday it is to shut three semiconductor factories in Japan as part of a reorganisation of its business, as it grapples with falling profits.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Facebook, HTC building Android smartphone: report
Facebook has allied with Taiwan's HTC to build a customized smartphone powered by Google's Android mobile operating system, according to technology blog All Things Digital.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Industry says Africa fastest growing mobile market
(AP) -- Sure, 24-year-old Gertrude Kitongo cherishes a cell phone as a link to family and friends, from her grandmother in a Ugandan village to former schoolmates in Zimbabwe.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Apple's iMessage texting service takes aim at wireless carriers
With its latest operating system update, Apple Inc. is poised to strike a blow to wireless carriers by making free texting more ubiquitous.
Oct 14, 2011 |
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China Mobile 1H profit rises to $9.6 billion
(AP) -- China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, said Thursday its first-half profit rose 6.3 percent as sales were boosted by greater usage of mobile Internet devices.
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Motorola acquisition a huge gamble for Google
Less than six months after taking over as chief executive, Google co-founder Larry Page has placed the Internet giant's most audacious wager yet.
Aug 17, 2011 |
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SKorea's LG touts Optimus 3D smartphone for gaming
(AP) -- LG Electronics is touting 3-D smartphones as an alternative to dedicated handheld game devices.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 07, 2011 |
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German managers 'keep phones in biscuit tins'
A German chemicals company said on Monday its managers have begun keeping their mobile phones in biscuit tins during meetings in order to guard against industrial espionage.
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Elpida uses high-K metal gate technology to develop 2-gigabit DDR2 mobile RAM
Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced the DRAM industry's first-ever use of high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology to develop a 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM (LPDDR2) ...
Jun 15, 2011 |
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While consoles slug it out, mobiles games zip in
The big three game console makers brought their latest kick-ass wares to the industry's annual get-together this week, but some question their future amid an explosion of super-nimble mobile gaming.
Jun 10, 2011 |
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Apple's iPhone 4 finally comes to India
Apple's iPhone 4 made its debut in India on Friday, nearly a year after the updated model of the handset was launched in the United States, amid growing demand for smartphones.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 27, 2011 |
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Broadening uses put MEMS technology on the map(s)
Behind the smart phone's continuing transformation into the quintessential multipurpose tool is the rise and diversification of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), tiny machines that work the speakers, projectors, gyroscopes ...
May 25, 2011 |
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