From PC World: Sharp is close to commercializing its first product that uses a MEMS display—a new type of flat-panel display that boasts deeper and richer colors than traditional LCD screens and lower power consumption.
The screen was developed over the last three years with Qualcomm subsidiary...
From CNET: Samsung Electronics has announced its plans to spend 15.6 trillion won (about $14.7 billion) to construct a new chip plant in South Korea.
The South Korean electronics giant said construction will begin next year in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, with the plant set to open in 2017...
From DailyTech: Over the weekend The Wall Street Journal reported that Hewlett-Packard would split into to separate business, and the company today made that news official.
HP’s PC and printer division will be named HP Inc. and will have Dion Weisler as CEO. By splitting the business divisions, HP...
Much like Guest Writer Brian Cheung's family, I too have been looking at purchasing a car. If you have read the Behind the Scenes profile page, you will know I have been driving a Chevrolet Cobalt. While this car is not exactly known for its reliability or responsiveness, it has been good enough to get me from Point A to Point B without very much drama or horror. My dream car has always been one of the following: The Chevrolet Camaro, or the...
It is important to understand not all correct answers are useful answers, if given in the wrong context. For example, last month, I was driving one of my friends home. On the way back, my radar detector signaled an alert. "What is that?" she asked. "Well," I explained. "This is a radar detector. Basically, a radar detector is a superheterodyne receiver, which receives radio signals at a high frequency, and uses a local oscillator to do frequency...
From PC World: Facebook’s US$19 billion bid for WhatsApp won the approval of European Union competition regulator on Friday.
“We have carefully reviewed this proposed acquisition and come to the conclusion that it would not hamper competition,” European Commission Vice President in charge of...
From CNET: Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus scooped up 4 million reservations in China by Friday, according to Chinese media estimates cited by Fortune.
A single e-commerce site called Jingdong is responsible for 2.3 million reservations, Fortune reported, citing Chinese website Tencent.
The new...
From DailyTech: The latest operating system market share numbers from Net Applications reveal that Windows 8.x is still struggling to match the pace set by its predecessor, Windows 7. For the month of September, Windows 8’s global market share stood at 5.59 percent while Windows 8.1 had a slightly...
From PC World: Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish company behind mobile game hit Angry Birds, will lay off up to 130 people in its home country.
The company will be laying off about 16 percent of its workforce, Rovio’s CEO Mikael Hed said Thursday.
“We have been building our team on assumptions of...
From CNET: Verizon Wireless customers with a grandfathered unlimited data plan can breath a sigh of relief.
The nation's largest wireless carrier by subscriber base said Wednesday that it would no longer go through with its "network optimization" policy, which was its plan to limit the data speeds...
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