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Nvidia Looks to Gain Ground in Mobile With $199 Tegra Note, Its Own Entry in...
Aiming to boost its presence in mobile devices, Nvidia on Wednesday announced the Tegra Note, a homegrown seven-inch tablet. The device, expected to sell for $199, packs stylus support, front and rear...
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LG G2: A Solid Performer Held Back by Design, Software Flaws
When people ask me for phone-buying advice, more often than not the question goes something like this: Apple or Samsung? And it’s not surprising to see why. The companies make two of the most popular...
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Teardown Shows iPhone 5S Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 for the 5C
New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it’s time to tear the phones apart. This year’s iPhone teardown project was twice as much fun, because...
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Jeff Bezos Says Live-Help Button and Other Features Make New Kindle Fire...
Jeff Bezos presses the “Mayday” button on one of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX tablets. A few seconds later, a fresh-faced twentysomething named Dylan pops up in a small window on the tablet, offering...
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Intel, Microsoft Also Eyeing Wearable Device Market
It’s fair to say that everyone who is anyone in tech is trying to find a place in the budding market for wearable technology. Google has its Glass eyewear and has also bought WIMM Labs, a smartwatch...
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Qualcomm Now Has a Foot in All the Wireless Charging Camps
Qualcomm, which has been a major backer of the Alliance for Wireless Power, is now also taking part in two rival wireless-charging-standards efforts. On Friday, the company announced that it had joined...
View ArticleHTC, Qualcomm Work on Redesigning Smartphone Chip
Taiwan’s HTC Corp. is working with Qualcomm Inc. on ways to alter a component for its flagship One smartphone and other new devices, after a preliminary U.S. court win by Finnish rival Nokia Corp....
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Lenovo Drops Intel for Qualcomm in Latest K-Series Phone
Intel has had a tough time convincing big-name phone makers to use its chips in their Android devices. The Lenovo K900 And the path to acceptance appears to be getting bumpier. One of the company’s few...
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Facebook Acquires Israeli Mobile Analytics Startup Onavo
Facebook announced on Monday that it has acquired Onavo, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup focused on intelligence around mobile application data. Facebook will acquire both talent and technology as a...
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Update to Windows Phone Paves Way for Devices With Larger Screens, Quad-Core...
Microsoft is announcing on Monday a software update that will add support for large, high-resolution displays, as well as Qualcomm’s quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor. Nokia is due to introduce a...
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Magisto Lands $13 Million Investment for Polished Home Movies on Your Phone
All those videos that we shoot with our iPhones and Android devices and upload to YouTube and Facebook are great, but they’re pretty raw. Editing them and making them look a little more polished —...
View ArticleQualcomm in Talks to Join Cerberus and BlackBerry Co-Founders on Possible Bid
Qualcomm Inc. is in talks to join a possible bid for BlackBerry Ltd. that is being spearheaded by two of the beleaguered smartphone maker’s co-founders, according to people familiar with the matter....
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iPad Air Has Spendier Display, Costs Less to Make Than Earlier Models
There’s a new iPad in town, and that means the folks at research firm IHS are once again doing what they do best: Taking it apart for a look inside. In the latest of its teardown analysis reports...
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With 190,000 Smartwatches Sold, Pebble Boosts iPhone Support
It has been a busy year for the team behind Pebble. The company has gone from a tiny, 11-person outfit trying to deliver promised smartwatches to its Kickstarter backers to a growing 40-person business...
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Qualcomm Issues Upbeat Earnings Report, But Guidance Disappoints Investors
Qualcomm on Wednesday issued an earnings report that largely exceeded expectations and said it sees continued strong growth buoyed by expansion of 3G and 4G phones to more parts of the world. For the...
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Qualcomm's Toq Smartwatch a Few Ticks Behind Schedule
Qualcomm’s surprise entry into the smartwatch space is running a bit slow. When the company announced the Toq smartwatch in September, it was aiming to ship the first watches by mid-October. That date...
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Qualcomm Announces Faster Snapdragon 805 Mobile Chip, Aims to Make the Home...
Qualcomm is announcing on Wednesday a faster version of its high-end Snapdragon chip and a separate effort to take on a more central role in powering networking gear. Asa Mathat | All Things Digital In...
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Intel Chairman: "We Seemed to Have Lost Our Way"
Long a beneficiary of the falling cost of computing power, chipmaker Intel acknowledged Thursday that it was beaten at its own game. Moore’s law, the industry term coined by Intel co-founder Gordon...
View ArticleQualcomm CEO Says NSA Fallout Impacting China Business
Mobile device chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. expects to continue growing in China, but Chief Executive Paul Jacobs acknowledged U.S. restrictions on Chinese companies and revelations about surveillance by the...
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Qualcomm Says China Is Investigating Whether Firm Broke Its Anti-Monopoly Law
Qualcomm said Monday that a Chinese government agency is looking into whether the chipmaker broke one of the country’s anti-monopoly laws. Asa Mathat | All Things Digital In a statement, Qualcomm said...
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Qualcomm Introduces Its First 64-Bit Chip, Though This One Takes Aim at the...
Qualcomm is detailing on Monday a new entry-level mobile processor that packs a number of high-end features. The Snapdragon 410 is designed for phones that sell for $150 or less but includes, among...
View ArticleLinux Foundation, Host of Consumer Electronics Firms, Line Up Behind New...
The Linux Foundation said on Monday that it has lined up a number of big-name tech firms behind a new AllSeen Alliance designed to ensure easy connections among the various devices and objects that...
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One of the Warring Wireless-Charging Factions Adopts Rezence Brand Name
The Alliance for Wireless Power — one of three competing standards efforts in the wireless-changing market — is adopting a new consumer brand name as it nears the market with the first products. While...
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Qualcomm Taps Steve Mollenkopf, Rumored as Microsoft Successor, as Its Next CEO
A day after he was mentioned in a news report as a possible dark-horse successor to outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Steve Mollenkopf, COO of wireless chipmaker Qualcomm, has been named as the...
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Will Microsoft Name Its CEO Before the New Year? Weary Employees Hope for...
Here’s the only thing that’s completely clear: The search for a Microsoft CEO has become a bit of a circus over the last few weeks. First, Ford CEO Alan Mulally seemed to be a shoo-in, issuing a...
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