Wednesday, March 4, 2015

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Huawei increases 5G patent portfolio

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:11 AM PST

huawei-liveHuawei is spending a bomb to improve its 5G patent portfolio.

The outfit said that it wants to spend $600 million on 5G wireless research and development from 2013 to 2018.

But speaking to reporters at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday, Huawei Chief Executive Ken Hu said that 5G research spending was likely to rise, without giving specific figures. more»

Alibaba gets its own US cloud

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:09 AM PST

Clouds in Oxford: pic Mike MageeAlibaba is launching a cloud computing hub in Silicon Valley which is the first that the e-commerce giant has set up outside of China.

The new California data centre marks the Chinese company’s latest expansion onto an US market dominated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. more»

Snowden wants to come in from the cold

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:07 AM PST

snowdenUS spy agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is apparently negotiating a return to the US. A Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said the man who the US wanted to give the death penalty for leaking details of its spy schemes was working with American and German lawyers to return home. more»

AMD searches for artificial reality love

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:05 AM PST

AMD, SunnyvaleAMD has been showing the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco its LiquidVR SDK that will help developers customise virtual reality content for AMD hardware.

AMD said that LiquidVR SDK makes a number of technologies available which help address obstacles in content, comfort and compatibility that together take the industry a major step closer to true, life-like presence across all VR games, applications, and experiences. more»

Apple fanboys get political

Posted: 04 Mar 2015 01:02 AM PST

The late Steve Jobs with an iPadOwners of shiny expensive Apple gear are starting to use their phones to mount political campaigns.

According to the Guardian newspaper Apple fanboys are trolling their politicians with iMessage texts in protest over a law which would increase the length of time the government retains communications data. more»

Intel loses the plot – analysts

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 07:58 AM PST

Intel-logoA financial analyst said that an announcement made by Samsung at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona has thrown into sharp relief Intel's inability to capture market share.

Mark Hibben, at Seeking Alpha, said that while the CEO of Intel, Brian Krzanich, delivered a keynote at MWC, Samsung's announcement of the Galaxy S6 phone shows that the California company is way behind in its egregious goals. more»

Schmidt triggers Euro debate

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 06:45 AM PST

Google's Eric "Google Glass" SchmidtThe chairman of Google was summoned to meet the European Competition Commissioner yesterday, as investigations continue into alleged monopolistic habits.

Margarethe Vestager called Eric Schmidt in to discuss a number of complaints about Google, according to a report by Reuters.

Vestiges has already met a number of people complaining about Google, including executives from Microsoft and German press Axel Springer. more»

Smartphone sold over a billion last year

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 06:35 AM PST

smartphones-genericIn 2014, sales of smartphones to individuals reached 1.2 billion units worldwide, a rise of 28.4 percent compared to 2013.

Worldwide sales of smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2014 saw an increase of 29.9 percent compared to the same quarter in 2013, totalling 367.5 million units, according to Gartner. more»

Enterprise to boost tablet sales

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 06:27 AM PST

cheap-tabletsA report said that adoption of tales by commercial enterprises are set to boost sales in Western Europe.

IDC said the commercial market for tablets will reach over 11 million units by 2019 – that's 130% CAGR.

The tablet market so far has largely been driven by home users, and by early adopters in corporations. more»

United bans lithium ion batteries

Posted: 03 Mar 2015 06:20 AM PST

United AirlinesUnited Airlines said it will stop carrying cargo of lithium ion (li-ion) batteries, following tests.

United is the second US airline to announce it would cease shipping quantities of li-ion – last month Delta made a similar decision.

The tests were carried out by the Federal Aviation Administration, according to the BBC. more»

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