From EETimes: S3 Group Ltd., of Dublin, Ireland, best known as a supplier of design services and intellectual property to the semiconductor, TV, and telehealth sectors, is preparing to sell complete ICs -- but not under its own name.
The development is what Darren Hobbs, director of product...
From GreenBot: Compared to Apple, Google takes a more laissez-faire attitude toward its app store, but the search giant is once again making efforts to clean up Google Play. This time around Google is making it harder for Android apps to push other apps on you with scammy tactics such as simulated...
From PC World: For the next release of its open source MySQL, Oracle is making a number of changes designed to vastly boost the speed of the open source relational database management system.
Such a sizeable performance bump could help organizations save money in server purchases, because it would...
What do you call a Pizza Hut when an employee pees in the sink? One could refer to it as a PEEza Hut. Recently, a surveillance video on YouTube was uploaded, showing a Pizza Hut district manager peeing in the restaurant's kitchen sink in West Virginia. While we here at APH Networks are not about to debate the reasons why anyone would do such a thing, let us sit back for a moment, and think about it: Would anyone have known about this if there...
From InfoWorld: Lenovo is recalling certain ThinkPad battery packs that could be a fire hazard due to overheating, which could ultimately also lead to computer damage.
The recall applies to 34,500 batteries sold in the U.S. and 2,900 batteries sold in Canada, said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety...
From PC World: BlackBerry continued to struggle during the company’s fiscal fourth quarter, experiencing a huge drop in revenue and a $423 million net loss.
Revenue for the fourth quarter of BlackBerry’s fiscal 2014, which ended March 1, was approximately US$976 million, down 64 percent from $2.7...
From DailyTech: Microsoft and Dell have penned a patent licensing agreement regarding devices running Android and Chrome OS.
According to Microsoft, Dell agreed to pay royalties to Microsoft for sales of devices that run either Google's mobile Android operating system or Chrome OS.
Microsoft is...
From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Tuesday announced that it has completed the acquisition of Basis Science, a leading developer and manufacturer of wearable computing devices for health and wellness applications. The acquisition of Basis accelerates Intel's wearable products focus and extends the...
From EETimes: Intel's year-old foundry deal with Altera has been expanded to include "multi-die" devices that combine Altera's Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs with DRAM, SRAM, ASICs, processors, and analog chips in a single package.
The agreement, announced March 26, is an extension of a deal the...
From GreenBot: HTC’s latest bid for smartphone relevance is a 5-inch handset called the HTC One (M8), parentheses and all. At a Tuesday press event in New York, HTC CEO Peter Chou announced the new smartphone, stressing smart industrial design, a more intelligent, gesture-driven user interface, and...
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