In the beginning of the Fall semester last year, I was hanging out in the Electrical Engineering homeroom, playing some foosball with my friend. As we bounced goals off each other during a relatively fast paced game, a group of four individuals dropped by, and one of them asked if we were any good at foosball. "I will challenge both of you guys one on two," he said in an intimating manner. Being in the faculty of engineering for the last few...
From EETimes: Altair Semiconductor announced an LTE-Advanced baseband processor in the run up to this month's Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. The Four Gee 3802 is the Israeli company's third LTE design.
A former supporter of WiMax technology, the company is now investing heavily in LTE...
From PC World: Bitcoin fell below $100 on major exchange Mt. Gox early Friday, dropping under a key psychological threshold.
Traders pushed the digital currency as low as $91.50, far below its price at around $537 on two other exchanges tracked by CoinDesk.com.
The price on Mt. Gox later recovered...
From DailyTech: HTC has a new wearable device to show off next week at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, but it isn't clear if it will be shown publicly.
According to Bloomberg, HTC will present the smart watch to carriers at the trade show. The event will act as a preview of the...
From X-bit Labs: How many times have you left the house, only to realize you have left your wallet, or your phone, sitting on the kitchen table? All of us, from time-to-time. That’s all about to change with the Nokia Treasure Tag. Attached to various assets, the Nokia Treasure Tag, and your Lumia...
From EETimes: Intel tripled the maximum memory capacity in its latest server microprocessor, aiming the part against high-end chips from IBM and Oracle for big-data analytics jobs such as running in-memory databases. The Xeon E7 v2 packs up to 6 TBytes main memory in a four-socket platform and 12...
From PC World: Cisco Systems has released security updates to fix serious vulnerabilities in a range of products including its Intrusion Prevention System, Unified Computing System Director, Unified SIP Phone 3905 and Firewall Services Module products.
The vulnerability addressed in Cisco Unified...
From DailyTech: So what’s worth more than Motorola Mobility, Nokia’s Devices and Services Division, and Nest Labs combined? Well, the answer is apparently WhatsApp. Facebook just announced this afternoon that it is acquiring the extremely popular cross-platform messaging service for a whopping $16...
From X-bit Labs: IBM has announced that it had achieved a new technological advancement that will help improve Internet speeds to 200Gb/s – 400Gb/s at extremely low power. The speed boost is based on a device that can be used to improve transferring Big Data between clouds and data centers four...
From EETimes: At least four different approaches to wireless charging are vying to power billions of next-generation mobile devices. Today only one has a beachhead in about a million systems: the Wireless Power Consortium's Qi inductive charging technology.
By 2018, analysts say, the race will be...
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