Samsung lays groundwork for smartphones with more RAM

Apple strips CEO Cook of $4M in stock grants for poor share performance Police make murder arrest after cellphone theft goes wrong IT News Daily December 30, 2013 Share this email Samsung lays groundwork for smartphones with more RAM Samsung Electronics has announced a new chip that will make it possible for the company and others to build smartphones and tablets with up to 4GB of RAM. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Apple strips CEO Cook of $4M in stock grants for poor share performance 2. Police make murder arrest after cellphone theft goes wrong 3. App dev 2013: The winners and losers 4. Apple to shareholders: Vote Icahn off Buyback Island 5. As customers fume, Microsoft promises Surface Pro 2 firmware fix ASAP 6. Rdio shutters Vdio service, as it should   Apple strips CEO Cook of $4M in stock grants for poor share performance Apple CEO Tim Cook received a compensation package of $4.25 million for the 2013 fiscal year, a 2% increase over the year before. READ MORE Police make murder arrest after cellphone theft goes wrong Police in San Francisco have arrested a 16-year old resident of the city on suspicion of murder and attempted robbery after a cellphone theft apparently went wrong earlier this month. READ MORE App dev 2013: The winners and losers The software development landscape in 2013 saw technologies like JavaScript rise to new heights while others -- Java, for example -- maintained their prominence out of sheer inertia. READ MORE   Apple to shareholders: Vote Icahn off Buyback Island Apple urged shareholders to vote against a proposal by investment agitator Carl Icahn, who wants Apple to buy back an additional $50 billion in stock over the next nine months to boost the share price, according to a Friday filing with U.S. regulators. READ MORE As customers fume, Microsoft promises Surface Pro 2 firmware fix ASAP Even as Microsoft promised to speed up work on a re-release for a flawed Surface Pro 2 firmware update, customers continued to damn the company for the fiasco. READ MORE Rdio shutters Vdio service, as it should Rdio is ending its brief foray into streaming video, shutting down Vdio after just eight months. READ MORE   Follow IT News Share this email You are currently subscribed to itnews_daily as garn14.tech@blogger.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy If you are interested in advertising in this newsletter, please contact: sean_weglage@itworld.com To contact IT News, please send an e-mail to online@itworld.com Copyright (C) 2013 IT News, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 ** Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@itworld.com. **