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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Google on Friday said that plugin-free video chat in the browser is becoming a reality with the availability of Web with Real Time Communications capabilities, or WebRTC support in Firefox 22.
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HP collaborate with SAP AG on a joint initiative, codenamed "Project Kraken," to improve business processes and mitigate risks for their customers.
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The future of Sanyo Electric as a brand and a company is uncertain as its parent company Panasonic is undergoing a
reorganization plan, which includes global jobs cuts.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Microsoft data shows that computer viruses, once built to attack computers in the era before ubiquitous Internet connectivity, have started to trend upward again.
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Yahoo Japan said on Friday it suspected that up to 22 million of its user IDs may have been leaked.
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The Software Alliance (BSA) and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today applauded the introducing the End Anonymous Patents Act ( H.R. 2024) in the US House of Representatives.
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Corning today launched Corning Lotus XT Glass, a second-generation glass substrate specially formulated for high-performance displays.
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The Financial Times on Friday said some of its blogs and social-media accounts were hacked by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army.
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Facebook and Twitter are coming to Google Glass wearable computer, Google announced at Google I/O, but the company is already facing questions from Congress over privacy concerns.
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Foxconn Technology Group is trying to meet a July deadline
for cutting work hours and improving union participation,
said the labor monitor appointed by Apple, its largest
customer.
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Yahoo said on Thursday that a Mexican appellate court had
thrown out a $2.75 billion ruling by a lower court against
Yahoo and Yahoo Mexico in a contractual dispute with two
Mexican firms.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
Yahoo on Thursday began offering tweets at its
online news pages.
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The four computer hackers affiliated with the group Lulz Security were sentenced to up to 32 months in a U.K. prison on Thursday.
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Japan public broadcaster NHK announced to separate achievements today related to the longevity of OLED and the efficient digital terrestrial transmission of 8K video signals.
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Just one day after Google provided figures regarding its succesfull Google play app store, Apple today rushed to announce that its customers have downloaded over 50 billion apps from its own App Store.
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The Tokyo High Court's on May 13 dismissed appeals previously filed by Elpida Memory's creditors in order to stop Elpida's reorganization plan, under which Elpida will join the Micron group of companies.
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DivX is among the first to deliver tools for HEVC content and playback with the release of the first DivX HEVC draft profiles, available for download and testing.
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Samsung Electronics has succesfully implemented
the first 45 nanometer (nm) embedded flash ("eFlash") logic process into a smart card test chip, paving the way for deployment of the process on a commercial scale.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
This morning, Google kicked off the 6th annual Google I/O
developer conference with over 6,000 developers at Moscone
Center in San Francisco, and many new announcements.
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A new Star Trek app for Windows 8 and Windows Phone kicked off a cross-company partnership to promote "Star Trek Into Darkness," the new film from Paramount Pictures.
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Google has reportedly licensed music from Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment to launch a subscription music service that would compete with start-up Spotify, according to a report on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Facebook is still the number one social network by a large margin, but Twitter and Google+ see major gains in actie users, according to eMarketer, a digital marketing analysis firm.
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The latest Firefox 21 desktop Firefox brings more Do Not Track options and more social networking integration, while Android Firefox gets open source fonts.
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Microsoft today confirmed that "Windows Blue" will be known as Windows 8.1 and that it will be a free update to Windows 8, with a Public Preview to be released on June 26.
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In a rare bit of cooperation, Microsoft's Outlook.com is giving users of its free email service the option of logging into Google Chat to exchange instant messages and engage in audio or video conversations.
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Lite-On Technology's consolidated revenue for the first quarter of 2013 was decreased by 11.6% but the company expects growth for the second quarter.
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Sharp's board of directors have aproved the company's
corporate strategy to achieve "recovery and growth" through
a medium-term management plan for fiscal 2013 through
fiscal 2015.
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Sony responded to a shareholder's call for it to spin off its entertainment operations, saying that its entertainment businesses remain important to its growth strategy.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Intel has lost ground as the world's top semiconductor company to chip suppliers benefitting from the success of mobile devices, according to a study by IC Insights released on Monday.
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Google has started offering more capacity to store your files, rising from 5GB to 15GB shared across Google+, Drive, and Gmail.
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The special committee of Dell's board on Monday asked Carl Icahn for details of his plans for the computer maker, including how he would finance his offer and who would run the company.
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Amazon.com said on Monday it had acquired Liquavista NV from Samsung Electronics to help the Internet retailer develop new displays for mobile devices.
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Sharp will cut 5,000 jobs, slash the number of directors and advisory positions and shift its production focus under a three-year plan, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported on Friday.
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Panasonic on Friday reported a net loss of 754 billion yen ($7.5 billion) for the fiscal year through March due to restructuring costs and slumping sales. However, the electronics giant predicted a return to the black this year.
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Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management Inc has reportedly made a new proposal to Derll's shareholders, the the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reportedly reiterated plans to build its first 450mm (18-inch) pilot production lines, which will offer FinFET transistor technology at 10nm and 7nm nodes, in 2016-17.
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Thursday, May 09, 2013
Google's YouTube video service is entering the pay television by starting on Thursday a subscription service with 30 content creators, including Roger Corman's campy B movies, children's shows like "Sesame Street" and "Inspector Gadget," and inspirational monologues by celebrities.
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The Northern District of California (NDCA) today affirmed previous findings that the Rambus patents involved in a case against SK Hynix are valid and infringed by the S. Korean memory maker.
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Intel today announced the completion of two company acquisitions -- Aepona and Mashery.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) said Thursday it will invest a US$1.5 billion in 2013 to boost its capability in research and development.
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Sony today reported an annual profit for the first time in five years, boosted by asset sales and a weakening yen.
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Although Intel will manage to advance Moore's Law for the foreseeable future, keeping up with it is becoming more challenging as chip geometries shrink.
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Facebook is reportedly in talks to buy Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze for $800 million to $1 billion, business daily Calcalist reported on Thursday.
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Yahoo has reportedly begun talks on a possible purchase of the online video website Hulu, the AllThingsD site reported Wednesday.
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BitTorrent has built a format called the BitTorrent Bundle, which will let content owners charge for some files within a torrent.
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Toshiba said on Wednesday it expects its operating profit to reach 260 billion yen ($2.6 billion) for the year ending March 31, 2014, mainly boosted by strong sales of its flash memory chips.
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Internet traffic to and from Syria appears to have dried up.
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Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Microsoft has sold 100 million Windows 8 licenses in the six months since launch and hopes that the Windows Blue will further fire up interest in Windows machines in all forms.
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Monday, May 06, 2013
McAfee said Monday it was buying Finnish-based firewall specialist Stonesoft Oyj in a deal worth $389 million.
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Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $23.48 billion for the month of March 2013, an increase of 1.1 percent from the previous month when sales were $23.23 billion.
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Amazon.com has started offering paid apps in China through its newly established Android application store, which targets the Google's presence in the world's biggest mobile market.
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Sunday, May 05, 2013
Microsoft has acknowledged that a "zero-day" vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), confirming reports made by multiple security firms.
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Struggling Sharp Corp is considering scrapping advisory posts and its chairman, Mikio Katayama, may retire as part of efforts to speed up a business revival, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.
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Friday, May 03, 2013
Facebook has made available a new account recovery feature, which lets people locked out of their profiles get back in with the help of friends.
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Under a new bill, the Dutch government plans to give police greater powers to fight cybercrime, allowing investigators to hack into computers, install spyware, read emails and destroy files.
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
Intel's board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Paul Otellini. Krzanich will assume his new role at the company?s annual stockholders' meeting on May 16.
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Facebook saw its mobile advertising revenue to grow in the first three months of the year as the social network sold more ads to users on smartphones and tablets.
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Mozilla is taking on one of the world's best known purveyors of surveillance software.
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Google Plus is racking up large numbers of new users and continues to outpace Twitter as the world's number two social network, behind Facebook.
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Scientists from IBM today unveiled the world's smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Intel Capital, Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC), and Telefonica Digital, have invested in Expect Labs, a San Francisco startup that is developing a platform to power a new generation of intelligent digital assistants.
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Microsoft is rolling out a preview version of Skype for Outlook.com, bringing two communication experiences in one place.
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Spansion will acquire the Microcontroller and Analog Business of Fujitsu Semiconductor for approximately $110 million, plus approximately $65 million for inventory, Spansion and Fujitsu ltd announced today.
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Monday, April 29, 2013
An executive of Taiwan-based LCD maker AU Optronics Corp. was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in San Francisco for his participation in a worldwide thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) price-fixing conspiracy.
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Qualcomm says that users will soon be able to wirelessly recharge smartphones and tablets without placing them in direct contact with charging pads.
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Infineon Technologies and GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced a joint technology development and production agreement for 40 nanometer (nm) embedded flash (eFlash) process technology.
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Google will retire the Meebo Bar publishing tool by June 6, as the company focuseson projects like Google+ Sign-In and plug-ins.
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Daily deals website LivingSocial was recently hacked and the accounts of its 50 million members were exposed.
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Microsoft prevailed at the first of two patent trials versus Google's Motorola Mobility unit on Thursday, when a federal judge in Seattle ruled largely in its favor.
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Wavii has today officially confirmed the Google bayout previously reported online.
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Initiated by the arrival of Google Glass and magnified by Google's efforts to promote application development for the product, the global market for smart glasses could amount to almost 10 million units from 2012 through 2016.
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Yahoo today announced that chairman Fred Amoroso has decided not to seek reelection to the board of directors at the upcoming 2013 annual meeting of shareholders.
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AT&T is finally entering the home security and remote monitoring business with its Digital Life service, which is available in 15 markets.
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Samsung on Friday said ts first quarter profit jumped to a record high as smartphone sales remained strong.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Goole is offering Mac and Windows users of the Chrome browser the ability to open Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files directly in their browser.
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A coalition of twenty-seven organizations released a joint letter to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Web's standards-setting body, condemning Encrypted Media Extensions (EME).
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Twitter has made a few improvements to Twitter for Mac, incuding support for hign-resolution Retina displays.
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The number of government requests to Google in order to remove data from its search engine were significantly increased in the second half of last year.
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The European Commission invites Google's rivals to examine the concessions proposed by the Internet search engine to end an antitrust investigation, EU regulators said on Thursday.
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Sharp has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 37.9% using a triple-junction compound solar cell in which three photo-absorption layers are stacked together.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
LG has patented a method for utilizing a head-mounted display, which displays content coming from an external device such as a tablet, even when you are not looking on it.
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LG Electronics said Wednesday its first quarter earnings
shrank compared to the previous quarter as its TV business
was slow, despite a recovery in its mobile operations.
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LED maker Bridgelux Inc and Toshiba have entered into an agreement under which Bridgelux will sell to Toshiba its GaN-on-Silicon technology and related assets.
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Apple reported Tuesday that its quarterly profit dipped as the company makes less money from its popular iPhone and iPads.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Hackers gained access on the popular Associated Press Twitter account on Tuesday and sent a bogus tweet of two explosions in the White House, with U.S. financial markets to plunge on the false news.
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Facebook is building a data center near Des Moines, Iowa, to bolster its computing power as it rolls out new services and as the growing use of smartphones increase the pressure on its infrastructure.
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BitTorrent is opening its new syncing tool called BitTorrent Sync to everyone.
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As with digital music downloads, the iTunes Store leveraged first-mover advantage, and popular devices, to command the lead in digital downloads of movies and TV shows.
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ARM Holdings Plc (ARM) reported high sales for the first quarter of 2013, as demand increased for its graphics and processing technology.
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AMD today announced the new AMD Embedded G-Series
System-on-Chip (SOC) platform, a single-chip solution based
on the AMD next-generation "Jaguar" CPU architecture and AMD
Radeon 8000 Series graphics.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
The Facebook Home application downloads have reportedly crossed the 500,000 mark since being launched for Android, less than week ago.
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A German regulator on Monday fined Google $190,000 for recording data from WiFi networks while taking mapping photos for its Street View service.
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The European Commission (EC) has informed a number of suppliers of smart card chips of its preliminary view that they may have participated in a cartel, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
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LG Display, the world?s second- largest flat-panel maker, said Monday it posted a first-quarter profit as increased demand for TV screens in China helped offset falling sales of smaller displays to Apple.
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Scientists have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic system capable of concentrating, on average, the power of 2,000 suns, with an efficiency that can collect 80 percent of the incoming radiation and convert it to useful energy.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Samsung is researching how to bring mind control to its mobile devices, hoping to find ways for people with mobility impairments to connect to the world.
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Yahoo continues to adjust its services and products to make sure they are central to users' daily habits. As part of that effort, the company is shutting down a few products.
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Satellite operator SES together with its partners Harmonic and Broadcom, has pioneered the first Ultra HD transmission in the new HEVC standard live from an ASTRA satellite at 19.2 degrees East.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Amazon.com is experiment with original video productionand on Friday the company posted 14 pilot TV shows on the Internet for free viewing.
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