Is Broadcom About To Get Bought?
Broadcom announced last year that it was closing its baseband cellular chip business after being unable to gain inroads against such competitors as Qualcomm. The company had $8.4 billion in revenue...
View ArticleApple Jumps Into Augmented-reality With Metaio Acquisition
Apple Inc has purchase Metaio, a German company whose technology combine real-world imagery and computer-generated elements into moving video presentations, according to a corporate filing. The terms...
View ArticleQualcomm Sells Spectrum In Europe
"This auction was for spectrum in the 1452-1492MHz band, known as L-band. This is suitable for offering services such as mobile television, wireless broadband and satellite radio.
View ArticleASUS Goes Automated GPU
It reduces Asus' production costs due to a lower failure rate in the quality control phase, and the graphics cards will likely have a longer lifetime, reducing warranty claims.
View ArticleMicrosoft Set To Encrypt All Bing Search Traffic By Default
Microsoft will beef up Bing’s security when it begins encrypting all of its search traffic by default this summer. Bing has offered HTTPS encryption for the past year and a half as an opt-in feature,...
View ArticleApple Discontinues Sales Of Original iPad Mini
Apple has quietly discontinued offering the original iPad Mini, the 7.9-in. tablet that debuted in 2012. The smaller sibling to the 9.7-in. iPad no longer appears on Apple’s online store, a fact first...
View ArticleYahoo Beefs Up Mobile Search
Yahoo is beefing up its search service on mobile devices, following Google’s lead by highlighting content such as images, videos and reviews ahead of regular search results The changes will apply to...
View ArticleEnterprise Customers May Save Faltering Tablet Market
With global tablet sales waning, there is a bright spot for hardware manufacturers: Business purchases of tablets for workers in jobs such as retail sales or field work. Forrester predicted that...
View ArticleApple Offering Free Beats Headphones For Back-to-school Promo
Apple launched its annual back-to-school promotion in the U.S., switching the deal to a free pair of Beats headphones for customers who buy eligible Macs. The promotion launched later this year than in...
View ArticleMicrosoft Announces Surface Hub Delayed Until 2016
Customers who pre-ordered the Surface Hub from Microsoft were notified this week that their mega-display and conference room collaboration tool won’t arrive until 2016, at least four months after...
View ArticleLG Display To Focus On Next-Generatin OLED Screens
South Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd s announced on Monday it would focus investment on organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, betting on the next-generation technology to steer it clear of price...
View ArticleBest Buy To Sell Apple Watch In All Stores By September
Best Buy will offer the Apple Watch in all of its 1,050 retail locations by the end of September, responding to strong consumer demand for the wearable. By Sept. 4, the Apple Watch will be available in...
View ArticleReport Reveals Hi-tech Vehicle Systems Are Rarely Used By Owners
Although car makers are spending billions of dollars to install cutting-edge technologies in vehicles, a new report shows many owners don’t use them. According to J.D. Power’s 2015 Driver Interactive...
View ArticleHuawei Goes After High-end Smartphone Market With Mate S
China’s Huawei Technologies has introduced a new smartphone , taking aim at the high end of the market, which is dominated by Apple and Samsung Electronics. The Mate S, launched on the sidelines of...
View ArticleWill The iPad Pro Be A Winner?
By the time Apple gets its act together it will be old news and the Surface 4 will be out and much better.
View ArticleIs The Tablet Space Drying Up?
As a result, international vendors have decided to leave the tablet-IC market because of low prices which will yield them low profits. Meanwhile weak demand, price competition among tablet chip...
View ArticleFacebook Moves Into E-commerce With Shopping Feature
Facebook Inc wants its users to buy clothes and other products from their mobile phones without ever leaving its app. In an effort to move further into e-commerce and compete with Amazon Inc’s retail...
View ArticleGoogle, Yahoo Sign Advertising Pact
Yahoo Inc announced that it has signed a search advertising deal with Google Inc, providing a potential boost to Marissa Mayer’s efforts to turn around the company, which also reported revenue and...
View ArticleApple Buys Parts of Qualcomm
Qualcomm took a $142 million charge on its Mirasol display business and a year ago there were rumours Qualcomm was selling off its Longtan Mirasol panel plant to TSMC.
View ArticleLenovo Debuts OLED Screen With New ThinkPad X1 Yoga Hybrid
Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X1 products are outfitted with snazzy new technology, including an OLED display on its X1 Yoga hybrid and newfangled docks for its X1 Tablet. With the new X1 products, which...
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