Acer Intends to Launch a $99 Android Tablet in Emerging Markets

From DailyTech: According to reports, Acer is set to launch a $99 tablet next year. Source claims to have direct knowledge of the project and offered up some specifications on the rumored tablet.

The Iconia B1 tablet will reportedly have a seven-inch display with a resolution of...

AMD’s Power-Efficient Eight-Core Desktop Chip Due This Week

From X-bit Labs: As reported, Advanced Micro Devices plans to unveil its first power-efficient eight-core AMD FX-8300 central processing unit on December 29, 2012. The eight-core offering with 95W thermal design power will likely become a chip of choice for those, who prefer quiet...

Apple wins critical SIM connector patent

From CNET News.com: Apple was awarded a patent that covers how SIM cards can easily be replaced or removed in a device.

The patent covers multiple methods of inserting a SIM card, including the "plunger system," in which a user pushes on a plunger rod to eject the SIM card. The...

Samsung Wants U.S. Sales Ban on Ericsson Products

From DailyTech: Samsung Electronics has announced that it has filed a complaint against Ericsson in the United States with the International Trade Commission. Samsung is seeking a ban on the U.S. import and sale of several products Ericsson makes due to patent violations.

"We have...

BB10 With New Keyboard Style Gets Pictured

From DailyTech: While there's still a hearty helping of gloom and doom surrounding embattled Canadian smartphone-maker Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM), there's also been recent signs that could raise the hope that the company could survive the rocky and delay-filled BlackBerry 10...

Huawei Shows Off Smartphone with 6.1” Full-HD Display

From X-bit Labs: If one have thought that the 5.5” display of Samsung Galaxy Note II is too large for a smartphone, but is too small for a tablet, think again, as Huawei is preparing to release a new “phablet” device next year, which will feature gigantic 6.1” screen with 1920*1080...

Look Out Intel; Samsung Test 14 nm FinFETs

From DailyTech: At the Intel Develop Forum, the world's largest maker of traditional PC central processing units and server chips, Intel Corp. (INTC) is fond of expressing how it's crushing its rivals in process technology. But by the looks of it the rest of the pack may not be as...

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