NVIDIA's Quad-Core Kal-El Packs a Fifth Core

From DailyTech: The prospect of quad-core or higher smartphones excites many, but it also evokes fear. Many already suffering from somewhat poor battery life so imagine such high core-count designs as being Shiva incarnate for smartphone batteries, a destroyer of your pleasant...

Developers Get Their First Bite of Android's Ice Cream Sandwich

From DailyTech: Google Inc. is giving developers their first of the next version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich. Ice Cream Sandwich will merge together the tablet and smartphone branches of Android. This is a drastic departure from the current situation where Android tablets are...

Intel’s Ivy Bridge Chip Set to Support Yet Unavailable DDR3 Memory

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp.’s next-generation Ivy Bridge processor will bring a lot more interesting features as initially believed. At the Intel Developer Forum, the world’s largest maker of chips revealed additional details about its next-gen central processing units (CPUs). The...

Gmail Threatens Microsoft in Enterprises, Says Gartner

From PC World: Google's share of the enterprise email market currently "hovers" at around 1%, but it will reach 10% within a few years, research firm Gartner predicts.

Google is gaining ground with enterprises that have 5,000 or more seats, Gartner said, naming several public- and...

Google Wallet opens for business

From CNET News.com: Google Wallet, which will allow people to tap or swipe their phones to pay for things, officially launches today on its first smartphone, the Samsung Nexus S offered on Sprint Nextel.

While several other companies, including credit card giants Visa and American...

AT&T Reaches Out to Rivals for Sake of T-Mobile Merger

From DailyTech: Having recently learned that seven U.S. states joined the Department of Justice's (DOJ) effort to prevent the AT&T/T-Mobile merger, AT&T is now attempting to rescue its $39 billion deal by reaching out to smaller rivals like Sprint and MetroPCS.

AT&T announced its...

Gogo to Launch 4x Faster Wi-Fi 4 on Virgin America Flights in 2012

From DailyTech: Airline companies have been working to improve in-flight entertainment systems in order to enhance the traveler's flight experience. For instance, Virgin America announced last week that it is partnering with Lufthansa to incorporate the BoardConnect platform into the...

Microsoft Confirms: ARM-Based Systems Will Not Run x86 Applications

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. admitted that systems based on ARM system-on-chip devices and running Windows 8 will not be able to run applications written for x86 microprocessors. Without emulation of x86 technology and compatibility with existing software, Windows 8/ARM PCs will...

AMD's 28nm Wichita APU May Be Released Later than Expected

From X-bit Labs: While officially Advanced Micro Devices promised to release its next-generation platform for netbooks, low-cost thin notebooks and nettops in calendar 2012, it is completely unclear when exactly the company will be able to introduce its code-named Deccan platform...

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