Wednesday, January 7, 2015

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Intel’s future is drones and women

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:52 AM PST

tarotreadingAt the CES show at Las Vegas this week, Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich showed off a computer built into a jacket button and a wristband that transforms into a selfie-snapping flying camera drone.

It says a lot about where Intel sees the future of computing. more»

There’s no fall out from Sony hack

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:51 AM PST

2000px-United_States_Fallout_Shelter_Sign.svgDespite a storm in a teacup over the Sony hack, which saw high level political involvement, Sony insists that there will be no financial fallout for the company.

Sony Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai said he does not expect the November cyber attack on the company’s film studio to have a significant financial impact. more»

Monster sues Apple over missing a Beats

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:49 AM PST

history-of-headphones-1895The maker of  $1,800 wires Monster has sued Apple over alleged “fraud and deceit” in the way that its new subsidiary Beats acquired control of the rights to the popular “Beats by Dr. Dre” headphones.

In May 2014, Beats was bought by Apple, but under a partnership formed in 2008, Monster and Beats developed “Beats by Dr. more»

Nvidia and AMD stuffed by TSMC’s Apple friendship

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:48 AM PST

two-applesNvidia and AMD have had their move to 16nm and 20nm designs hampered by the limited capacity of both nodes at manufacturer TSMC.

According to WCCFTech.com,  AMD GPUs are made by TSMC as are Nvidia's chips.  But it looks like all TSMC's capacity has been sucked up by Apple and Samsung. more»

Canadian copyright clubbers skirt the lines

Posted: 07 Jan 2015 02:47 AM PST

mountie-maintain-rightCanipre, a Montreal-based intellectual property enforcement firm, is in trouble over a blog which appears to been involved with a copyright infringement for months.

Copyrightenforcement.ca is run by Barry Logan, Canipre's Managing Director, Operations. In addition to posting releases from Canipre and information about the TekSavvy case, the site has posted dozens of full-text articles from media organisations around the world. more»

Journo sues US over hacking

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 06:57 AM PST

wargames-hackerA former news writer at CBS has started a law suit, accusing the US Justice Department of illegally hacking into her computers. Sharyl Attkisson discovered that two of her machines had been accessed to both monitor her stories and delete files during 2011 and 2013. more»

Samsung aims at internet of things

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 06:46 AM PST

Samsung HQ Silicon Valley - MM picThe CEO of Samsung has made a bid for his company to become an active player in the internet of things (IoT) by putting uo funding for developers. In a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BK Yoon said Samsung will provide $100 million in funding while pledging to keep access to devices open rather than proprietary. more»

Chip sales up in 2014

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 06:35 AM PST

Sales of semiconductors rose by 7.9 percent in 2013, with Intel continuing to rule the chip roost. intel_log_reversedA report from Gartner said the top 25 vendors revenues rose by 11.7 percent, with those vendors grabbing 72.1 percent of the entire market revenues. more»

Flash arrays capture market by storm

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 06:25 AM PST

storageSales of flash memory array units were more than robust last year, amounting to a market worth $11.3 billion in 2014. IDC said in a market report that the reason is there are better offerings that handle a wide range of more complicated workloads. more»

Tablet sales will continue to slow down

Posted: 06 Jan 2015 06:17 AM PST

cheap-tabletsGartner said that sales of tablets in 2015 will continue to slow down. While sales of tablets will reach 233 million units this year – which is an increase of eight percent compared to last year – the trend is downwards. more»

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