From X-bit Labs: Via Technologies, a designer of core-logic sets, controllers and application processors, on Tuesday said that it had filed a civil suit in the Taipei District Court seeking damages of at least NT$4.137 billion (US$138 million) from Asustek Computer and its subsidiary Asmedia...
As we come together and lament OCZ's bankruptcy in late November and its purchase by Toshiba earlier this month, let's take a moment to remember how such a young technology company has come to revolutionize the computer market in the last decade or so. I vividly recall buying a pair of Corsair Value Select PC3200 2x512MB dual channel kit in 2004 for a rock bottom price of $206.98, simply because I could not afford anything better. What I really...
From EETimes: Qualcomm kicked off the next round of competition in smartphones with its announcement of high-end and midrange LTE chips last week. Broadcom, Mediatek, and others are expected to join the 4G handset battle in 2014.
Qualcomm's 28 nm Snapdragon 410, announced Dec. 9, will pack a...
From PC World: Attackers exploited a vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion to install data-stealing malware that works as a module for Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) Web server software.
Researchers from security firm Trustwave recently reported they've identified IIS (Internet...
From DailyTech: Gigabyte has announced that its new Z87X-UD7 TH motherboard has received Thunderbolt 2 certification. Thunderbolt 2 was announced earlier this year, and the onboard Falcon Ridge controller supports 20 Gb/s aggregated data transfer rate across two channels per port
Thunderbolt ports...
From X-bit Labs: ARM Holdings has acquired Geomerics, a leader in lighting technology for the gaming and entertainment industries. The acquisition expands ARM's position at the forefront of the visual computing and graphics industries. Additionally, the agreement enables Geomerics to build on their...
From InfoWorld: We've seen the same problem reported over and over for Windows XP users trying to update their computers: Windows Update redlines (more accurately, the XP Windows Update agent WUAUCLT.EXE running in a SVCHOST wrapper redlines), taking 100 percent of the CPU for five, 10, 15 minutes -...
From PC World: Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and software-defined networking platforms with killer applications for them.
So says Cisco, which recently offered its own predictions on technology trends for 2014. They...
From DailyTech: Thanks to the removal of a certain feature, Android users may have to consider which is more important to them: privacy or security.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Google removed the App Ops feature from Android 4.4.2, the latest version of the mobile...
From X-bit Labs: While the next-generation high-end desktop (HEDT) family of chips is several quarters away, the first pictures of the Intel Core i7 Extreme “Haswell-E” central processing unit has already been published. This confirms that the new products have already reached Intel’s partners who...
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