From PC World: Advanced Micro Devices has optimized a version of Android for tablets and PCs containing its chips, and will sell it on new PCs through retail stores in Europe.
AMD doesn’t intend that Android will replace Windows on those devices, nor will it offer a dual-boot option. Rather, it...
From DailyTech: With mobile fast-becoming the most-important type of computing in most casual consumers' lives, Intel Corp. (INTC) looked only slightly less lost last year than it had the previous several years in the mobile market.
At mid-year last year, Intel chips were found in only 0.2 percent...
From X-bit Labs: Although Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox One may be controlled using gestures thanks to Kinect motion sensor, the platform holder introduced a special media remote for the console on Thursday. The controller can control basic TV functionality as well as video playback.
The easy-to-use...
From EE Times: Spreadtrum Communications, China's leading mobile chip supplier, and Mozilla, Firefox's OS designer, have teamed up to storm the world's emerging markets with a $25 smartphone -- its startling low cost enabled by web technologies.
The two companies said they have completed the...
From PC World: A subtle mistake in how Apple implemented a basic encryption feature that shields data from snooping also affects many desktop applications that rely on the code, according to a noted security researcher.
Apple released a patch on Friday for its iOS mobile platform but has yet to...
From DailyTech: As anticipated, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) inheritance got a little bit more complex early this morning, with Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V) unveiling a series of budget devices based on a forked version of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android operating system. The devices -- the Nokia X, XR, and X+...
From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has introduced its all-new Xeon E7 v2 family of central processing units aimed at enterprise-class high-end servers. The new chips boast with up to fifteen cores, dramatically improved memory performance as well as a host of reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS...
In the beginning of the Fall semester last year, I was hanging out in the Electrical Engineering homeroom, playing some foosball with my friend. As we bounced goals off each other during a relatively fast paced game, a group of four individuals dropped by, and one of them asked if we were any good at foosball. "I will challenge both of you guys one on two," he said in an intimating manner. Being in the faculty of engineering for the last few...
From EETimes: Altair Semiconductor announced an LTE-Advanced baseband processor in the run up to this month's Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. The Four Gee 3802 is the Israeli company's third LTE design.
A former supporter of WiMax technology, the company is now investing heavily in LTE...
From PC World: Bitcoin fell below $100 on major exchange Mt. Gox early Friday, dropping under a key psychological threshold.
Traders pushed the digital currency as low as $91.50, far below its price at around $537 on two other exchanges tracked by CoinDesk.com.
The price on Mt. Gox later recovered...
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