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What exactly is computer security? From an engineering perspective, encrypting your data with a strong key and a complicated algorithm ought to keep anyone away from your sensitive information. After all, if it takes a supercomputer a billion years to crack a 128-bit AES key, imagine what it takes to defeat something done with 256-bit AES encryption. In reality, as much as this sounds great on paper, this is certainly not the case. Regardless of...

AMD's ARM chips not yet HSA compliant, but support is coming

From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices’ first ARM chips code-named Seattle will not initially be compliant with specifications from the HSA Foundation, which can boost overall system performance, but support will be added in future generations of the server chips.

The HSA (Heterogeneous System...

Windows 8 Passes 200 Million Sales Mark After 15 Months, Still Trails Windows 7

From DailyTech: Windows 8 was billed as a next generation operating system that would meld together the PC and tablet worlds. In the end, however, the operating system did more to infuriate users than to bolster the sales of new PCs and Windows-based tablets.

Things have gotten so bad that even...

Sony Is Interested in Windows Phone, Windows RT Operating Systems

From X-bit Labs: Since Sony Corp. plans to leave the market of personal computers later this year, it would naturally cease to use Windows operating system for desktops and notebooks. However, the company is interested in sustaining relationship with Microsoft Corp. and to utilize its mobile OSes...

Broadcom, Mediatek Dial Up LTE

From EETimes: Broadcom and Mediatek have rolled out competing integrated LTE applications processors focused on sub-$300 smartphones in their race to catch up with announced chips from market-leader Qualcomm in what are still the early days of 4G cellular.

Broadcom announced a reference design...

LG G Pro 2 packs Android KitKat, a super-sized screen, and features a-plenty

From PC World: LG Electronics’ G Pro 2 has a bigger screen than its predecessor, but improved video and camera features are what the company hopes will make the device stick out from the competition.

For LG’s smartphone division 2013 was a good year. The company sold about 46.4 million devices...

Market Leader Comcast to Purchase 2nd Place Time Warner Cable for $45.2B

From DailyTech: Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is expected to on Thursday officially announce a mind-blowing deal, which would mark the biggest consolidation in over a decade in the cable television and broadband internet market, if allowed. Comcast's bid will reportedly slot in at $159 USD per share of...

Apple to Continue Using PowerVR Graphics Inside Its Application Processors

From X-bit Labs: Apple and Imagination Technologies have announced that they had extended their multi-year licensing agreement. Under the terms of the contract, Apple can integrate current and future PowerVR graphics processing units designed by ImgTec into its own application processors used inside...

Microchip to Acquire Supertex for $394M

From EETimes: In an effort to grow its presence in the medical, lighting, and industrial markets and gain high-voltage process technology expertise, Microchip Technology Inc. has agreed to acquire Supertex Inc. for $394 million in cash.

Supertex [Sunnyvale, Calif.] is a niche analog and mixed...

Ads are coming to Firefox

From PC World: Advertising is about to land in the Firefox browser, at least for new users. Upcoming versions of Firefox will include sponsored advertising in the browser's new tab page, according to an announcement by the Mozilla Foundation.

Typically, the new tab page includes a selection of a...