From DailyTech: Under a newly minted deal between the world's top smartphone maker -- South Korea's Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) and Nokia Oyj. (HEX:NOK1V)), Samsung agrees to pay Nokia royalties on its Android smartphones, beginning in January 2014.
The deal is another crucial coup...
From X-bit Labs: Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced plans to extend its mission-critical HP NonStop operating system to x86 server architecture, providing the 24/7 availability required in an always-on, globally connected world, and increasing customer choice.
“Demands for round-the-clock, web...
From CRN: BlackBerry Monday said it has abandoned its attempt to go private and instead will take $1 billion in convertible debt financing from Fairfax Financial and other investors. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins also will step down and be replaced by former Sybase CEO John Chen on an interim basis...
From EETimes: The new Android 4.4 KitKat operating system announced by Google yesterday aims to save battery life by mandating that real-time location tracking and contextual awareness functions run in the background while the application processor is off. Usually, that means using a sensor hub to...
From DailyTech: Amazon has announced a new program called Kindle First that gives customers the chance to access digital Kindle books a month in advance of their official release date.
Along with offering early access to the books, Amazon will also be giving some notes and recommendations along...
From X-bit Labs: The head of Hon Hai Precision Industry (better known as Foxconn) not only wants to keep his company the world’s largest contract maker of consumer electronics, but go further and develop software for its clients. No exact details are known, but the plan seems to be very ambitious....
When Soviet mathematician Pyotr Ufimtsev published his paper "Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction" in the Moscow Institute for Radio Engineering journal in 1964, it showed the world radar signature is actually a function of the edge configuration of the object, rather than the traditional understanding of it being related object's size. The crucial part about his work, and what the US military was particularly interested in...
From CRN: Hewlett-Packard grew worldwide server shipments by more than 5 percent in the third quarter, halting a slump of eight consecutive quarters of shipment declines, according to preliminary market data from Gartner.
At the same time, Dell's worldwide server shipments, which in the second...
From EETimes: Can you maintain a business after your top customer buys your technology and the engineering team that developed it? That's the question Arteris will attempt to answer after Qualcomm decided it liked the FlexNoc network-on-chip so much it bought the company -- or most of it.
Qualcomm...
From DailyTech: Google Inc. (GOOG) today began shipping its Nexus 5, an Android smartphone from LG Electronics, Inc. (KSC:066570).
As the name suggests the new smartphone is the fifth generation model in the Google-branded line; previous models include the Nexus One (March 2010) by HTC Corp. (TPE...
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