The launch of Electric Imp Inc. by founders with have served time at
Apple, Facebook, Google, Mozilla and Yahoo suggests that the Internet of Things might be about to get a boost in public profile. ...
Former
Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup
IHS:
Apple iOS to reassert tablet dominance in 2012
LONDON – Samsung's cellphone sales revenue jumped 47 percent to $48.2 billion in 2011 making the company the leading mobile phone company by revenue, according to IC Insights. However, Nokia retained ...
LONDON – Pixel Qi Corp. (San Bruno, Calif.), a developer of reflective liquid crystal displays that can be read in sunlight thereby saving power, has announced that it can produce a screen with higher ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
Apple Inc. Tuesday (April 24) reported another stellar quarter of sales and earnings, but delivered a sales target for the current quarter that was below most analysts' expectations. App ...
NXP enables mobile ticketing for smart mobile devices
LONDON – Microcontroller vendor Microchip Technology Inc. has acquired Roving Networks Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.), a supplier of WiFi and Bluetooth wireless modules for an undisclosed sum of money.Rovin ...
IHS: Foxconn report a 'moment of reckoning' for electronics
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Semiconductor company NXP has had its engineering workbench iPad app approved by
Apple and launched in the App store.The app, in beta since early February of this year, follows hot o ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Semiconductor company NXP has had its engineering workbench iPad app approved by
Apple and launched in the App store.The app, in beta since early February of this year, follows hot o ...
McAfee talks angry robots and rotten
Apples at Design West
Is 'vision' the next-gen must-have user interface?
Apple dominated the market for applications processors in tablets last year with Texas Instruments and Nvidia in a near tie for second place, according to a new market research report from Strategy An
LONDON – Europe's largest chip company STMicroelectronics NV should persuade Ericsson AB that they sell off their mobile chip joint venture ST-Ericsson, but probably to some aspiring Chinese company. ...
Apple added LTE and upgraded the processor, display, and camera in its latest iPad. The new iPad uses a new
Apple A5X applications processor, sporting two CPU and four graphics cores.
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Mobile systems are driving toward better graphics, better voice quality and quad-core processors, according to veteran market watcher.Graphics seems to be key area of investment, as ...
LONDON – Consumer electronics repair company iFixit Inc. (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) has disassembled the latest iPad tablet computer from
Apple to reveal the details of how it is put together including ...
Teardown slideshow: Inside the third-generation iPad
Apple's iPad accounts for nearly 80 percent of the NAND flash memory used in media tablets and is expected to continue to dominate worldwide demand through at least 2015.
SAN FRANCISCO—
Apple Inc.'s new iPad models are more expensive to produce than the iPad 2 at time of launch, though they carry the same price points, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. The ...
Qualcomm not worried about mobile graphics competition
SAN FRANCISCO—
Apple Inc. has roughly 15,500 patents, about 8.500 of which are U.S. patents, according to a new report detailing the tech giant's patent portfolio.
Apple is named as the assignee of 84 ...
Apple has sent out official invitations to a launch event on 7 March 2012 in San Francisco, with widespread speculation that it would unveil the iPad 3 tablet device there.
Patents are being acquired by companies in an escalating battle for offensive and defensive dominance.
SAN FRANCISCO--Analysts are predicting that
Apple will launch a smaller, more affordable iPad tablet in 2012 in addition to its high end iPad 3, due out next quarter.Brett Simpson and Richard Kramer o ...
IT SEEMS the regulatory obstacles to Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility have largely been cleared, with the European Commission and the US Department of Justice approving of the deal.
SAN FRANCISCO—
Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against Motorola Mobility Inc. Friday (Feb. 10) seeking to block Motorola from asserting patents against
Apple in German lawsuit, according to reports. The Reu ...
Imagination technologies to see big royalty uptick
FOXCONN has had its servers infiltrated by a hacktivist group, resulting in a public release of information like employee credentials and passwords.
SAN FRANCISCO—
Apple Inc.'s iPhone captured 19.1 percent of the global smartphone market share in 2011, up from 16 percent in 2010, according to Canacorrd Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. Based on the ...
WEB analytics company StatCounter says global mobile internet usage (excluding tablets) doubled from 4.3 percent in January 2011 to 8.5 percent in January 2012.
Google poaches
Apple's senior director of product integrity
Google poaches
Apple's senior director of product integrity
SAN FRANCISCO—The death of longtime Micron Technology Inc. Chairman and CEO Steve
Appleton could throw a kink in rumored collaboration talks between Micron and Japan's Elpida Memory Inc. and delay nee ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Micron Technology Inc. Saturday (Feb. 4) appointed D. Mark Durcan CEO, one day after longtime leader Steve
Appleton was killed in a plane crash. Durcan assumed the duties of CEO Friday f ...
Steve
Appleton, soon after he took the top job at Micron Technology Inc., was boss of the last U.S. DRAM maker. As such it was a politicized position and it suited him; a robust operator who could be ...
LONDON – Steve
Appleton, chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc., died in plane crash Friday (Feb. 3) in Boise, Idaho.
Appleton, 51, led Micron as CEO since 1994, having joined th ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,--During a teardown at this year’s DesignCon 2012 in Santa Clara, CEO of iFixit, Kyle Weins, blasted
Apple for switching out its Phillips screws for new tamper-resistant screws.Wei ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--
Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics continued their game of tag at the top of the smartphone shipment table, with
Apple taking back the top spot for smartphone shipments in the f ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--
Apple will integrate Anobit rather than run it as a separate unit, according to comments made by CEO Tim Cook, referring to his firm’s $390 million Israeli acquisition.Flash mem ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
Apple Inc. Tuesday (Jan. 24) reported its highest ever quarterly sales and earnings, thanks to record sales of its iPhones, iPads and Macs. “We’re thrilled with our outstanding results a ...
WASHINGTON -- The titans of Silicon Valley have made it perfectly clear that all those manufacturing jobs shipped to Asia aren’t coming back. That’s precisely what
Apple’s Steven Jobs told President O ...
SAN FRANCISCO—
Apple Inc. was the leading customer of semiconductor chip vendors in 2011, driven by the ongoing success of its iPhones, iPads and MacBook Air, buying $17.3 billion worth of chips and ac ...
LAS VEGAS – The absence of
Apple from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) year after year (it bugs everyone) and Microsoft Corp.’s decision to pull out of the CES after 2012 (what’s going on here?) ha ...
LAS VEGAS – The absence of
Apple from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) year after year (it bugs everyone) and Microsoft Corp.’s decision to pull out of the CES after 2012 (what’s going on here?) ha ...
Apple’s annual release of its Supplier Responsibility Report has this year been appended with a list of the 156 companies in its supply chain for 2011.
LAS VEGAS--With the recent surge of smart devices, demand to play one’s media anywhere and everywhere is also on the rise. This demand has spawned companies like Kivic, which was showing off its range ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – My distant view of CES 2012 showed me Intel may do both better and worse in mobile than I thought. The next steps for Wi-Fi and set-top boxes remain unclear. And there are whoa too ...
Apple to let group monitor supplier working conditions