Tuesday, January 6, 2015

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LG presses on with OLED

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 03:07 AM PST

oldtvWhile the rest of the display world abandons plans for OLED as too expensive for the big screen, LG is hanging on to the technology.

LG Display has announced it will increase production capacity of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels for TVs. more»

Apple fanboy recants to inquistion after criticism

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 02:07 AM PST

Galileo_facing_the_Roman_InquisitionApple fanboy Marco Arment has said that he has extreme regrets for daring to post in his blog that Apple software had dropped down the toilet.

Arment is a web and iPhone software developer, writer, and podcaster and his comments seemed fair enough. more»

Intel shows off 14nm processor

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 02:06 AM PST

Intel-Core-MIntel has taken the wraps off its first 14nm processor, the Core M at the CES show in Las Vegas.

The CPU is designed for the ultramobile, low-power market and is an  SoC die shrink of the existing architecture.

Where it does something interesting is on the GPU side with shedloads of improvements and advances,

The video decoder block has been beefed up with dual bit stream decoders, we are expecting to see other improvements but Intel has been quiet on exactly what it has tweaked and changed to date. more»

Spies are putting off writers

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 02:05 AM PST

spyA survey of writers around the world by the PEN American Centre has found that a significant majority said they were deeply concerned with government surveillance.

Some have said that the spying has meant they have avoided, or have considered avoiding, controversial topics in their work or censored their posts or phone calls. more»

India invented the airplane 7,000 years ago

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 02:03 AM PST

India_flagThe Indian Science conference has hit the interwebs for the number of bizarre presentations being made.

If you believe the government-backed presentations, the world's first plane was invented by the Hindu sage Maharishi Bharadwaj. Indian mathematicians also discovered the Pythagorean Theorem but the Greeks got the credit and elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha got his head because of the superiority of ancient Indian plastic surgeons. more»

Belkin goes big on the internet of things

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 07:27 AM PST

Internet of ThingsComms company Belkin is using the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week to demonstrate a range of products that promise to make peoples' homes more secure. According to Cnet, the company will introduce four new sensors this year, all based on the firm's WeMo technology. more»

Microsoft rolls out $29 phone

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 07:14 AM PST

microsoft-in-chinaTech giant Microsoft started the New Year by announcing it was releasing a feature phone which will be priced at $29. The Nokia 215 is aimed at emerging markets and for people who want a second phone and don't have very much money. more»

Chinese phone company revenues soar

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 06:49 AM PST

android-china-communistXiaomi Technology, which is beginning to challenge smartphone players including Samsung and Apple, turned over close to $12 billion in 2014, according to its CEO. Lei Jun, the CEO of the company, said the revenues rose 135 percent compared to 2013, in a blog on the company's website. more»

Utilities start spending on IT

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 06:29 AM PST

server-racksRestructuring and mergers are creating something of a boom in IT spending for utility companies in Western Europe. That's the conclusion of market research company IDC, which said a survey showed that the move demonstrates optimism in the sector. Western European utility companies are taking steps to improve their maintenance and run operations, said IDC.   more»

Nvidia takes the licensing route

Posted: 05 Jan 2015 06:08 AM PST

nvidia-gangnam-style-330pxIn a bid to generate more revenues, graphics firm Nvidia is to start licensing its GPU designs to other companies. Nvidia has already started licensing its "Kepler" graphics processor and, according to Digitimes Research, it will do the same for its future processor Maxwell. more»

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