Google and Samsung Unveil New Line of Chrome OS-Based PCs

From X-bit Labs: Google and Samsung Electronics on Tuesday introduced two new personal computers running Google Chrome operating system. The new PCs promise new Intel Celeron "Sandy Bridge" hardware, a major software update and many more robust applications. Still, with inexpensive...

Sharp and Sony to Terminate LCD Joint Venture

From X-bit Labs: Sharp Corp. and Sony Corp. have announced that their joint venture relationship to produce and sell large-sized LCD panels and modules will terminate, and that Sony will sell its shares (representing 7.04% of the issued shares) in Sharp Display Products Corp. to SDP...

Sprint sets sunset date for Nextel network

From CNET News.com: The carrier said today that it would completely shut off its Nextel network, which uses a technology called iDEN best known for its walkie-talkie capability, on June 30, 2013. The company will begin alerting customers on Sunday.

The date marks the end of troubled...

Factory Resets Brick Google Wallet on Some Android Smartphones

From DailyTech: Despite tremendous promise, near field communications are starting to look like "not [ready] for consumption" in their current form. Despite NFC being successfully used throughout Japan for years now, America's try at NFC courtesy of Google Inc. (GOOG) has been met...

Facebook to Launch Phone By Next Year, Eyes HTC Purchase

From DailyTech: Newly public Facebook, Inc. (FB) is still recovering from a tumultuous initial public offering, and the criticisms and condemnations that ensued over its underwriter Morgan Stanley's (MS) questionable handling of insider information on the IPO. Now the internet giant...

PowerColor Shows Off Word's First Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13

From X-bit Labs: PowerColor, a leading supplier of graphics processors that belongs to Tul Corp., has revealed the first image of its upcoming dual-chip Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 graphics card that is projected to emerge on the market in the coming weeks. The new solution will be...

TSMC to Make Chips for Renesas

From X-bit Labs: Renesas Electronics Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company on Monday announced that they have signed an agreement to extend their microcontroller (MCU) technology collaboration to 40nm embedded flash (eFlash) process technology for manufacturing MCU...

LG Working on Retina-beating 5-inch Smartphone Display

From PC World: LG Display has introduced a 5-inch full HD LCD panel for smartphone displays -- the highest resolution mobile panel to date, the company said on Monday.

The widescreen panel is based on AH-IPS (Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching) technology and has a 1920-by...

RIM Prepares to Cut 2,000 More Jobs as it Tries to Stay Afloat

From DailyTech: Waterloo, Ontario based Research in Motion, Ltd. (TSE:RIM) used to be the darling of the smartphone industry. For a time "BlackBerry" was almost synonymous with "smartphone", but today RIM has fallen on hard times. It can hardly convince customers to buy its...

WebOS Team Flees HP, Jumps Onboard Android Ship

From DailyTech: When Hewlett-Packard Comp.'s (HPQ) bold and ultimately doomed webOS experiment was terminated, many assumed that was the end. But it turns out that webOS had more fans than it seemed and many a blog was written bemoaning the loss of innovative features like "swipe to...

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