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Want To Know What Apple Will Do Next In Mobile Commerce? Check Out The Pirq It’s Giving To Employees
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As device makers like RIM, Samsung and Nokia incorporate NFC technology into their mobile devices, Apple has been radio silent on what its plans will be in mobile commerce and payments. But a deal that is getting announced today could be a clue to one area where Apple might see...
Want To Know What Apple Will Do Next In Mobile Commerce? Check Out The Pirq It’s Giving To Employees
Intel's first smartphone coming soon: Xolo X900 gets 24 April release date
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Intel's first Atom smartphone is now available, and it's Lava's Xolo X900. It has managed to outpace both Lenovo's K800 and Orange's Santa Clara and arrives on the Indian carrier next Monday. Packing a 1.6 GHz Atom Z2460 processor, we handled one in Barcelona a few months ago, and...
Orange San Diego gets UK reveal, name change
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Orange took its time to decide, but now it's settled. The first European Intel-equipped smartphone is the San Diego, replacing the Santa Clara codename assigned to it since February's Mobile World Congress. DevelopingOrange San Diego gets UK reveal, name change originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 May 2012...
Orange San Diego: Intel's Medfield phone gets benchmarked
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While we've been pleasantly surprised by some favorable browser scores, we couldn't help sneaking another peek at the phone's (second) launch -- this time right in the center of London. We took the Orange Santa Clara for a spin on our latest benchmarks. See how Intel's new mobile processor...
Orange announces first Intel-powered Android phone for Europe, codenamed Santa Clara
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Orange will be the first to offer a Medfield-powered Android phone in Europe. Codenamed Santa Clara, and arriving some time this summer, it looks pretty similar to Intel's reference model -- in both design and specs. The phone totes a 4-inch 600 x 1024 display, with a solid 8-megapixel...
Apple employees to get exclusive restaurant deals with Pirq
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With a market value of more than $530 billion, Apple has created enormous wealth for thousands of employees who live, work and play near its Silicon Valley headquarters. It’s the kind of money that restaurant owners would salivate over, and now they’ve got a new way to tout their wares...
Calxeda benchmarks claim that its server chips are 15 times more power efficient than Intel's
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Calxeda may have been given the bum's rush by HP's Project Moonshot, but the company isn't taking it lying down. It's released benchmarks for its ARM-based server technology that claims it's 15 times more power-efficient than the comparable Intel Xeon. Rigging up a 1.1GHz Energycore ECX-1000 with 4GB RAM...
Intel's First Smartphone Goes on Sale in Europe June 6, Courtesy of Orange UK
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The Intel-based San Diego smartphone, previously known as Santa Clara, will go on sale in the U.K. on June 6 via Orange, the operator said on Thursday....
'Smoked by Windows Phone' winner auctioning laptop and phone for charity
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The winner of Microsoft's "Smoked by Windows Phone" challenge has revealed he plans to donate his free laptop and phone to a charity auction. Sahas Katta won a challenge in a Microsoft Store over the weekend when his Galaxy Nexus displayed the weather from two different cities faster than...
I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost “Just Because”
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I headed down to the Santa Clara Microsoft Store this morning after hearing about the Windows Phone challenge last night. For those not familiar, anyone who completes a task faster than a Windows Phone on their own smart phone can win a $1000 Special Edition Laptop assuming they meet some...
How Google is using OpenFlow to lower its network costs
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Google is checking out a new form of networking protocol known as OpenFlow in the communications networks that run between its data centers. The search giant is testing the use of software-defined networks using OpenFlow in order to lower the cost of delivering information between its facilities, says Urs Hölzle, SVP...
Want to get acquired by Google? Google VP explains how to go big
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David Lawee is Google’s vice president of corporate development, the latest in his string of high-profile positions at the search giant. Onstage at the DEMO conference today in Santa Clara, he told VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall that before working at Google, he actually started (and sold) four companies himself as...
Inventor of the gTar: Hardware is the Next Big Thing in Silicon Valley
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The inventor of the ground-breaking gTar – an iPhone-enabled guitar that makes learning the instrument more fun and intuitive – says the next wave of innovation in Silicon Valley is destined to be in hardware. Idan Beck, a 27-year-old former Microsoft employee and Cornell electrical computer engineering graduate, invented the gTar...
Intel's First Smartphone Goes on Sale in Europe June 6
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The Intel-based San Diego smartphone, previously known as Santa Clara, will go on sale in the U.K. on June 6 via Orange, the operator said on Thursday....
Orange San Diego: Intel brings the x86 vs. ARM smartphone war to Europe
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After months of being teased by the China-only Lenovo K800 and the India-only Xolo X900, the Western world is finally getting a piece of the Intel Atom-powered Android smartphone action: The Orange San Diego (previously codenamed Santa Clara) will launch in the UK on June 6 and cost just £199...
Orange San Diego (Santa Clara) release date set for June 6th in UK
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The Intel-designed and -powered Orange Santa Clara will arrive in the UK on June 6th, under the official name of Orange San Diego. The two key Intel components inside it are the Atom Z2460 system-on-chip (codenamed Medfield) and the XMM 6260 HSPA+ modem for wireless connectivity. Those sit alongside...
Orange to Release Intel-based Santa Clara Smartphone
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Mobile operator Orange has joined the companies backing Intel's move into smartphones, and will start to ship the Android-based "Santa Clara" during the summer......
Dozuki: iFixit releases content creation and Q&A tools to the public
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If you've ever had to fix a broken screen on your iPhone, or replace the hard drive in your Mac, chances are you're familiar with iFixit's excellent online repair guides. Well, today at Demo in Santa Clara, the company is announcing it's giving everyone access to the same tools...
Intel’s Atom chip debuts in Orange smartphone
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Mobile World Congress just became Intel’s mobile coming out party. On Monday Orange will debut the first smartphone powered by Intel’s Atom processor at the show, giving Intel a key foothold in the European market as well as a critical endorsement from a major carrier. The Android Gingerbread device,...
Can Big Data Replace Domain Expertise?
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One of the recurring themes last week at the O'Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara was the idea that skill with machine learning and analytics could trump domain expertise in getting results. The argument goes something like this: Given the right data set, a data scientist with no domain expertise...
‘Smoked by Windows Phone’ loser turned winner auctions prizes for charity
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus user Sahas Katta found himself thrust into the technology news cycle recently after he allegedly smoked a Windows Phone but was denied his prize. Katta took part in a Microsoft contest that asked users of Android phones, iPhones or any other smartphone to compete against a...
Orange 'Santa Clara' Android phone is Intel-based, Intel-designed
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Orange has just announced that it will bring the first Intel-powered Android phone to the UK and France this Summer, running a 1.6GHz Atom Z2460 processor. Codenamed "Santa Clara," and manufactured by Gigabyte, the handset is exactly the reference design Intel was showing at CES. That means a 4-inch...
Judge throws out Proview’s iPad trademark suit against Apple in the US
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Apple had a small win in the US today when a Santa Clara judge threw out Chinese technology company Proview’s trademark infringement case. According to the Wall Street Journal, Judge Mark Pierce of the Superior Court of the State of California in Santa Clara threw out the case saying...
Top Yahoo Ad Exec Riley Departs in Wake of Recent Changes (Memo)
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In a move that comes as little surprise to anyone paying attention to insider baseball, top Yahoo exec Rich Riley will be departing the company. Riley, who has had a number of jobs at the Silicon Valley Internet giant over 14 years, was most recently the head of its critical...
Intel unleashes dual-core Ivy Bridge chips, updated ultrabooks incoming
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Intel may have officially launched its new 22nm Ivy Bridge CPUs last month, but this morning’s ultrabook announcement is the chip’s real debut. The new IVB processors are at the center of the company’s ultrabook plans, and the various OEM partners like Dell, HP, Asus, and Lenovo have readied a...
First Intel smartphone goes on sale in Europe June 6
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The Intel-based San Diego smartphone, previously known as Santa Clara, will go on sale in the U.K. on June 6 via Orange, the operator said on Thursday....
SpiderCloud grabs $35M to improve mobile network coverage and capacity indoors
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Networking equipment startup SpiderCloud Wireless has raised a new $35 million round amid tough competition, with a plan to upgrade its tech that makes cell phone service better indoors. Santa Clara-based SpiderCloud’s business is focused on increasing capacity and coverage for network operators and enterprise customers who have more...
Intel CEO says first Atom-based phone due late this week
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini during a call discussing his company's latest results revealed that the first phone with one of its company's processors would at last be shipping this week. The executive didn't name the specific phone, but it may be the Lenovo K800, which had originally been promised for...
Galaxy Nexus owner refused prize upon beating Windows Phone challenge, receives apology and loot later
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Skatter Tech’s Sahas Katta posted a blog yesterday about his Windows Phone challenge experience and explained how he beat the contest using a Galaxy Nexus, but the store withheld his prize “just because.” Katta claimed he beat a “Get Smoked” Windows Phone challenge at the Santa Clara Microsoft Store yesterday. The assigned...
Galaxy Nexus owner refused prize upon beating Windows Phone challenge, receives apology and loot later
Google shares lessons learned as early software-defined network adopter
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During his keynote speech at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara on Tuesday, Google executive Urs Holzle detailed the company's work with software-defined networking (SDN) from its earliest stages....
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