Recently, I was surfing a popular Western Canadian home electronics retailer's website, taking a look at the latest home audio equipment deals. One deal that particularly caught my eye was a complete package that consists of an A/V receiver, two tower speakers, one center speaker, and two bookshelf speakers for a "whopping" deal of $698. Ironically, I added all the components up separately -- from the retailer's own website, no less -- and it...
From EETimes: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) showed a solid 10.9% growth in revenue in the fourth quarter, which ended December 2013, compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company's fourth quarter net income and diluted earnings per share both increased by 7.7%.
The foundry...
From PC World: Citing disappointing holiday sales of its Wii U and 3DS game devices, Nintendo cut its earnings forecast for its fiscal year ending in March to a net loss.
The video-game giant warned on Friday of a net loss of ¥25 billion (US$240 million) for the year, instead of the ¥55 billion net...
From DailyTech: Sprint has announced that its customers will be among the first to get their hands on the curved screen LG G Flex. The G Flex will take advantage of the Sprint Spark, which is an enhanced LTE network supporting gaming, VR, and advanced cloud services.
The LG G Flex has a 6-inch HD...
From X-bit Labs: The first high-performance accelerated processing unit (APU) from Advanced Micro Devices code-named “Llano” was not particularly successful product for the company: it launched late, its yields were lower-than-expected and its performance was not high. But Llano is yet to deliver...
From EETimes: Intel is making a concerted effort to get traction among cloud customers -- an area where the company already dominates, but is seeking to further entrench itself.
Intel on Wednesday announced a new initiative aimed at the cloud space. The new “Powered by Intel Cloud Technology”...
From PC World: When in doubt, bigger is better, and Sharp's latest Windows tablet packs a massive plus-sized screen and some kingly specs, though it's more of a curiosity than anything else.
The Sharp RW-16G1 straddles the border between portable and portly with a whopping 15.6-inch screen that's...
From DailyTech: Samsung has pulled the covers off the new Galaxy Tab 3 Lite. The tablet features a 7” display with a meager resolution of 1024 x 600. If you’re looking for the latest version of Android, you’ll have to look elsewhere – the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite comes preloaded with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean...
From X-bit Labs: Motorola Mobility was one of the first companies to respond to Apple’s iPad media tablet with a high-end Xoom slate in early 2011. While Xoom clearly was not a success due to Google Android’s flaws at the time, it made one thing clear: the company can develop a fine tablet, but...
From EETimes: Let the battle begin over the so-called “conscious home” -- a long-term vision held by Nest Lab’s co-founder Tony Fadell. Now that Google is inserting itself into that "home" picture, through the acquisition of Nest, a smart thermostat and smoke alarm developer, expect the market...
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