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HTC ST-Ericsson CPUs
HTC has collaborated with ST-Ericsson to produce a range of mobile CPUs. The new processors are aimed at the entry-level smartphone market, freeing HTC from reliance on Qualcomm chips, and possibly enabling the company to follow the examples of Samsung and Apple in taking firm control over component supply. Though HTC has looked at manufacturing [...]
Sandisk Squeezed In Q1
Sandisk had a disappointing first quarter as the company is squeezed in the flash memory market. Intel is eating into profits with its SSDs while Samsung and Toshiba are outperforming Sandisk in ultrabook market share. Q1 earnings were $114 million Sandisk responded to Wall Street’s disappointment by saying that weak pricing has made things difficult [...]
iPhone sales numbers for Q1
Apple is responsible for 85% of world’s smartphones sales. The numbers are high and climbing. Fortune magazine has assembled some two dozen Wall Street analysts’s forecasts on 1st quarter of 2012 iPhone sales. Their estimates ranged between 26 mil and 33 million units sold between January 1st and March 31st. The best conservative estimate then [...]
Mainstream Vista Support Stops
Mainstream support has ended for Windows Vista. Vista was released on Jan 30, 2007. Microsoft’s policy is to support OS for a minimum of five years or for at least two years after the next OS is released. Windows 7, which aimed to address the vast catalog of failings of the Vista OS fiasco, was [...]
Playbook Android Sideloading Ending?
We recently reported financial trouble at RIM , and it seemed renewed interest in the cut-priced Blackberry Playbook might be the company’s saviour. It’s one of the best dual-core tablets out there, great display, good performance, but in the beginning was hampered by a poorly-equipped OS and its premium price point. Now that Playbook OS [...]
Google Updates Search
Google has been updating its search algorithms and UI over the last month, and has now made a blog post detailing the changes. They are not so cataclysmically important unless you’re involved in SEO or use Google Search particularly heavily, but a few are outlined below. ‘+’ is henceforth to be handled as a normal [...]
MacBook paired with Siri
Next line of MacBook Pro will be thinned down a bit. Great news await all that have MacBook Pro this summer. Apple has secured another patent describing capability of iPhone to connect to your Mac via Voice command. Siri has been incredibly popular among iPhone users and net has been buzzing with suggestions that Siri [...]
US Smartphone Ownership Rockets
The Pew Research Center reports in a new study that almost half of Americans now own a smartphone. 46% of US citizens now own smartphones, and the results also show that the trend is accelerating faster amongst women, whose ownership climbed from 31% in May 2011 to 44% in the latest figures, while smartphone ownership [...]
Mobile GPU Shipments Stats
The Jon Peddle Research Agency has published statistics for mobile GPU shipments to be used in SoC (system-on-chip) platforms. The data translates to an annual growth rate in 2011 of 18% for phones and tablets. Just confirmation that tablets and smartphones are moving from the realm of luxury good to mainstream consumer product, which we [...]
DARPA’s Walking Robot Hits 18mph
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA for short, is funding the Cheetah robot, most likely to be first deployed for disarming or disposing of explosives. The Cheetah robot was built by Boston Dynamics and intends to speed up robots which use legs rather than wheels for getting around. The legs are flexed [...]
