From DailyTech: LG unveiled its latest smartphone today called the G Flex following leaked details of the device earlier this month. The smartphone features a curved screen designed to follow the contour of the user's face. LG says device also takes advantage of a new user experience with features...
From X-bit Labs: Nintendo this week notified its customers in Japan that production of the legendary Wii video game console would end shortly. While the company has made no such announcements in other regions, it is clear that Wii is facing its end-of-life. While it may be sad to see the device to...
When I was younger, I have always thought their current leader of Kuomintang and president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, has an awesome name. For those who don't know how Chinese names work, the family name precedes a person's given name; where each part of the name is its own character, and each character is roughly the English equivalent of an individual word. Ma Ying-jeou's family name, 'Ma', literally means 'horse'. Mandarin speakers will probably...
From InfoWorld: Samsung Electronics' net profit in the third quarter was up 25.6 percent year-over-year on record revenue driven by sales of its memory chips and smartphone products.
The South Korean electronics giant reported Friday a net profit of 8.24 trillion won ($7.8 billion), up from 6.56...
From eWeek: Microsoft announced on Oct. 24 that the company had generated revenue of $18.53 billion in the first quarter of its fiscal year 2014, a record for Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker reported net income of $5.24 billion and earnings per share of $0.62, handily beating...
From EETimes: IBM has licensed a set of five ARM cores for use in communications ASICs it makes for its semiconductor customers. The move is a milestone in the shift toward the ARM architecture in communications.
IBM licensed the ARM Cortex-A15, A12, A7, and M4 processors, as well as the Mali-450...
From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp., the world’s third largest maker of hard drives, has introduced its MQ02ABF-series hard drives for laptops, the company’s first 2.5”/7mm dual-platter HDDs. The drives will provide 750GB and 1TB storage capacities and will join Toshiba’s family of mobile storage...
From ComputerWorld: AT&T won't be matching T-Mobile's offer of free wireless data for the iPad Air when the device debuts at the company's stores across the U.S. next month.
AT&T, the country's second-largest cellular carrier, said it will offer a $100 discount to customers who sign a two-year...
From CRN: Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a series of updates to its Windows Azure public cloud, including new data backup and disaster recovery services, as well as expanded cloud development tools.
Microsoft's Windows Azure Backup Service, which stores data from Windows Servers in the Azure cloud...
From CNET News.com: Samsung's Galaxy S4 has reportedly hit the 40 million unit sales mark, suggesting that there's still plenty of love for the 5-inch smartphone.
A Samsung exec said the quad-core beauty has now tipped over the big 4-0, according to a report in Korean-language site inews24 (via...
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