Motorola's Project Ara aims to create a customizable mobile platform

From ComputerWorld: Motorola is developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones.

With Project Ara, Google-owned Motorola wants to create a third-party developer ecosystem around a customizable framework that gives users more choice in the components that make up...

AT&T Says Tablet Owners Eventually Realize WiFi-Only Stinks

From eWeek: For a feature story on the connected car market, I recently spoke with Chris Penrose, senior vice president of AT&T's Emerging Devices organization. While AT&T hasn't yet shared pricing details concerning the Long Term Evolution (LTE) connectivity that it will soon support in a number of...

Is ARM Adopting Microsoft Model?

From EETimes: Last week saw an interesting shift in programmable SoC devices, especially in licensing IP.

XMOS Semiconductor signed a deal last Thursday, Oct. 24, to use ARM-based chips from Silicon Labs alongside its own deterministic multicore silicon in a single package. Part of this is an...

LG G Flex Curved Screen Smartphone Gets Official

From DailyTech: LG unveiled its latest smartphone today called the G Flex following leaked details of the device earlier this month. The smartphone features a curved screen designed to follow the contour of the user's face. LG says device also takes advantage of a new user experience with features...

100 Million Units Later: Nintendo Wii Faces End-of-Life

From X-bit Labs: Nintendo this week notified its customers in Japan that production of the legendary Wii video game console would end shortly. While the company has made no such announcements in other regions, it is clear that Wii is facing its end-of-life. While it may be sad to see the device to...

G.Skill Ripjaws F3-1600C9D-16GRSL 2x8GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

When I was younger, I have always thought their current leader of Kuomintang and president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, has an awesome name. For those who don't know how Chinese names work, the family name precedes a person's given name; where each part of the name is its own character, and each character is roughly the English equivalent of an individual word. Ma Ying-jeou's family name, 'Ma', literally means 'horse'. Mandarin speakers will probably...

Samsung's profit up 26 percent on memory chip, smartphone sales

From InfoWorld: Samsung Electronics' net profit in the third quarter was up 25.6 percent year-over-year on record revenue driven by sales of its memory chips and smartphone products.

The South Korean electronics giant reported Friday a net profit of 8.24 trillion won ($7.8 billion), up from 6.56...

Microsoft Beats Street With Enterprise Clout

From eWeek: Microsoft announced on Oct. 24 that the company had generated revenue of $18.53 billion in the first quarter of its fiscal year 2014, a record for Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker reported net income of $5.24 billion and earnings per share of $0.62, handily beating...

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