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Status Symbols: HTC HD2
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Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They're things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation. I remember the first time I ever held an...
Qualcomm Atheros expects a smoother rollout for next-generation WiFi
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Qualcomm Atheros expects that the next-generation of WiFi wireless networking will roll out in a smoother manner than past industry transitions and with less confusion for consumers. The new 802.11ac technology, also known as 5G WiFi, promises blazing fast internet access that is several times faster than today’s existing network...
AMD takes a swing at Intel and Nvidia with new mobile graphics chips
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A day after Intel launched its Ivy Bridge combo graphics-microprocessor chips, Advanced Micro Devices is launching a new series of fast and power efficient graphics chips for notebook computers. The new AMD Radeon HD 7900M, 7800M and 7700M series graphics chips are aimed at both high-end gamer laptops as...
Status Symbols: Microsoft IntelliMouse
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Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They're things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation. 30 years ago, Microsoft Hardware was born. The Word...
Yesterday’s iPad Event Was Only Half The Story
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Because of the way Apple structures their major announcements — iPad in the first quarter, WWDC and iPhone in the summer though perhaps with the iPhone, now it’s fall — the iPad event is a little weird, because it’s really only half an event. The first half is what happened...
Quantance’s tiny power amplifiers could dramatically improve your smartphone’s 4G data rates
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Most people won’t care about Quantance‘s tiny qBoost power amplifiers. But these efficient little chips will capture your attention because they could enable faster 4G data rates of two times to five times, and reduce the heat coming out of your device at the same time. Quantance is announcing...
QCOM Off 3%: FYQ2 Rev, EPS Beat; Q3 View Light; Raises Year EPS View
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Wireless chip maker Qualcomm (QCOM) this afternoon reported fiscal Q2 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts’ estimates, forecast this quarter’s revenue and EPS below expectations, and raised its year outlook on what it expects will be higher average selling prices for 3G and 4G devices. Revenue in the...
MetroPCS enters the VoIP age. Who will be next?
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MetroPCS has been gunning to be the first out of the gate with a voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) service, and this week it didn’t disappoint. It’s first VoIP handset, the LG Connect 4G, went on sale in Dallas on Tuesday, making it the first carrier to combine its voice, messaging and internet...
Heinrich Hertz birthday celebrated by animated Google Doodle
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One of the great scientists of modern civilization, the man to whom we owe the mighty specs of megahertz and gigagertz, is being commemorated by Google. February 22nd of this year marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Hertz, born in the north German town of Hamburg...
Acer starts selling a laptop with a not-so-secret Nvidia graphics chip
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Acer has begun selling a new Ultrabook (thin laptop) with a new Nvidia graphics chip. The new machine is the first Ultrabook that has a stand-alone graphics chip in addition to the integrated graphics in the laptop’s Intel chip. That means the new computer will be thin, light and still...
TRAI Proposes Bandwidth Price
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India's telecommunications regulator proposed 36.22 billion rupees ($696 million) as the auction starting price for one unit of bandwidth in the 1800 megahertz frequency to offer basic mobile-phone services across India, in the first step toward reallocating 122 canceled licenses....
Status Symbols: Pioneer Kuro
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Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They're things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation. There was a span of a couple years in...
Status Symbols: Rega RP1 turntable
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Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful and luxurious in their own right. They're things that live on after the megapixel and megahertz wars move past them, beacons of timeless design and innovation. For some reason, turntables bring out both the best...
Intel Stresses New Selling Points In Server Chip
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Intel once again turned the crank Tuesday on a new generation of chips for server systems. But there were some differences in the messaging this time, a sign of how the business is changing. The company used to stress how much faster each new electronic brain worked, measured by megahertz...
At chip engineering conference, Intel continues to obey Moore’s Law
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Intel is announcing today several advances in chip technology that show it is keeping up with the demanding pace of Moore’s Law, which predicts a doubling of semiconductor performance every two years. Formulated in 1965 by Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore, Moore’s Law isn’t guaranteed. But to show it remains...
Verizon offers to sell some airwaves in exchange for approval to buy others
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Verizon Wireless on Wednesday offered to sell some unused airwaves in exchange for federal approval of its purchase of other airwaves from cable companies. The wireless giant said it would sell some spectrum licenses in the 700 megahertz band that it bought at a federal auction in 2008. The sale...
Freescale launches a chip for electronic book readers
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Electronic book readers are gaining so much traction that chip makers are starting to design custom chips to power them. The latest example is from Freescale, which is launching the i.MX508 applications processor today. The chip uses an ARM Cortex A8 as its core brain and gathers a bunch of...
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