Android 4.3 to hit Sony Xperia smartphones, tablet

From CNET News.com: Android 4.3 Jelly Bean just spilled out Wednesday, but Sony has already lined up the devices slated to receive Google's latest update.

Sony's Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia Tablet Z, Xperia SP, and Xperia Z Ultra were confirmed as some of the recipients...

Google Offers $35 Media Streaming Stick Chromecast

From DailyTech: Google introduced a media streaming stick today that allows users to watch videos from services like YouTube and Netflix on their TVs.

The streaming stick is called Chromecast, and it connects to a TV's HDMI input to wirelessly sync with mobile devices or the Chrome...

ARM Beats Profit, Revenue Expectations, but Misses on Margin Growth

From DailyTech: ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM) continues to perform bullishly, pumping its pre-tax profit for the second calendar quarter (ending in June) to £86.6M ($132.4M USD), up 30 percent from Q2 2012.

As the producer of the most-used architecture and instruction set for tablets...

Intel Extends AVX to 512 Bit for Future Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. this week published details regarding new advanced vector extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) instructions first to be found in the Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” co-processors as well as future microprocessors. The new instructions enables processing of twice the...

Nvidia offers glimpse of powerful, next-gen mobile chip

From CNET News.com: Nvidia will introduce its next-gen graphics processors for mobile computing at a visual computing conference this week.

The new graphics chip technology, dubbed Project Logan, is based on the company's Kepler architecture and proposes to bring workstation-class...

Sales of Nokia Lumia Up 32% Quarter-Over-Quarter

From X-bit Labs: Nokia Corp. last week announced its financial results and revealed that sales of Lumia smartphones were up 32% quarter-over-quarter and that its smartphones in general are now better sellers than they were in the past year. Besides, the company reported zero sales of...

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