DARPA Contracts IBM to Develop Self-Destructing Chips

From X-bit Labs: The chips are used by warfighters in everything from radios, remote sensors and even phones are of very low cost and are pervasive throughout the battlefield. These electronics have become necessary for operations, but it is almost impossible to track and recover every device. At...

Group Forms to Drive NVDIMM Adoption

From EETimes: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has created a special interest group to foster the adoption of nonvolatile DIMM (NVDIMM), which it sees as the early days of computing architectures that combine storage and memory as a single entity.

Launched during the SNIA Annual...

Microsoft working on Kindle-like Xbox reading app for Windows 8

From PC World: Microsoft's getting ready to follow Amazon, Apple, and Google into the reading game with an app for Windows to peruse e-books, magazines, and comics. The new app appears be part of Microsoft's cross-platform Xbox entertainment services, which currently include Xbox Music and Video...

Sony Announces Slim PlayStation Vita, Borderlands 2 Bundle for US

From DailyTech: Sony has announced a new bundle that will include the new “slim” PlayStation Vita and Borderlands 2. Sony hasn’t given an exact launch date for the new bundle, but did say that it will be available in the U.S. this spring.

The bundle will include the new PCH-2000 series PS Vita...

Intel Labs Vows to Run Tight Ship

From EETimes: The new director of Intel Labs vowed to run a tight ship in his first public outing, a press conference describing papers on low-power interconnects and security techniques it will present at this week's International Solid-State Circuits Conference.

The 1,000-person group aims to "be...

HP starts charging for server firmware updates

From PC World: PC owners probably don’t give firmware updates much thought and rarely, if ever, seek them out directly. Enthusiasts and small businesses running low-end servers, on the other hand, have a keener interest in firmware since sometimes skipping an update can be fatal for their investment...

HTC to Focus on Mid-Tier Smartphones in Hopes of Improving Sales

From DailyTech: HTC has seen its fair share of losses in its recent past, but the smartphone maker has a plan to turn things around in 2014.

According to a new report from Reuters, HTC will sell more mid-tier and affordable smartphones as a way of filling in the gaps in its offerings.

Apple and...

Sony to Spin Off TV Business, Set to Concentrate on High-End Models

From X-bit Labs: Sony Corp. has announced significant new measures to address reform of its TV business aimed to return the company to profitability. In a bid to streamline its TV unit, Sony will spin it off, enhance usage of outsourcing and reduce headcount of employees. Finally, Sony will attempt...

SilverStone ARM Two SST-ARM22SC Review

Over the years, I have owned many Dell UltraSharp LCD monitors. The first one I have owned is a 2005FPW roughly nine years ago; an exceptional 20" 16:10 widescreen LCD featuring a brilliant 8-bit S-IPS panel. Since then, I have tried to own monitors of other brands, and even ventured into ones equipped TN panels -- but I have always come back to premium UltraSharp monitors for my main setup. Its picture quality, features, and price is simply...

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