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Apple Announces iPhone Battery Replacement Program
After nearly two years Apple acknowledges iPhone 5 battery fault and offers free replacement to qualifying owners.
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Smartcard Market On 4.4% CAGR Through 2019, Says IHS
Smartcards for everybody over the next five years, says IHS as it forecasts the annual shipment count will exceed the number of people on the planet.
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Google Selects Rockchip for Modular Smartphone Processor
Google's Project Ara – developing a hardware-modular mobile device – has chosen tablet processor specialist Rockchip as its partner to develop an application processor.
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Report: Chinese OS to debut in October
China has turned its back on Microsoft's operating system and wants to use home-grown replacement that will span desktop and mobile applications, according to Xinhua.
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Healthcare Robots for the Elderly Making Progress
The healthcare industry is turning toward a variety of potential robotics providers that can assist in the care of the elderly.
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Conditional Access Market to Peak in 2015
The global market for conditional access technology in set-top boxes is expected reach its peak revenue at $2.2 billion next year, according to IHS Technology.
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HP’s Earnings up Slightly Thanks to PC Sales
Fiscal third quarter results encouraging for a company that has witnessed multiple quarters of losses due to a highly competitive PC market and the emergence of wireless devices eating away at PC market share.
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AMD Enters SSD Market Targeting Gamers
AMD offering solid state drive series developed in collaboration with OCZ Storage Solutions, a branch of Toshiba.
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Blackberry Forms New Business Unit
Blackberry Limited has created a new business unit that will combine its patent portfolio with some of its technology assets.
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Mentor Extends Nucleus RTOS Platform
Mentor Graphics Corp. has released a new version of its Embedded Nucleus real time operating system (RTOS).
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Samsung Buys into IoT with SmartThings Startup
Samsung has bought a startup called SmartThings that has been pioneering the use of an app plus boxed sensors to control and monitor the home.
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Fab Method Shows Promise for Solar-Powered Phones
A new way to control molecular assembly shows promise for producing organic photovoltaics in enough quantity to replace phone batteries as the power source.
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QWERTY’s Retreat a Boon to Touchscreen-Controller Vendors
The standard QWERTY keyboard is being relegated to a smaller role while smartphones, tablets, ATMs, point of sale units and even PCs have gone the touch-screen route.
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Electronic Passports Struggle for Stamp of Approval
Politics will hamper the rise in ePassports to just 175 million units by 2019, according to a new report from IHS Technology.
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Lenovo's Sales Rise on Wireless Growth
China-based OEM maintains position as the world’s top PC maker for the fifth consecutive quarter.
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Charging Electric Vehicles Wirelessly
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology IISB are developing a means of charging EV batteries wirelessly.
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Flextronics Introduces New Universal Box Build System
Electronics manufacturing services provider Flextronics says it has developed a first-of-its-kind Universal Box Build (UBB) system.
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UMC makes MEMS microphones for Japan
Foundry chipmaker UMC is beefing up its MEMS position with a deal to manufacture MEMS membrane microphone elements for New Japan Radio.
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World Cup, Improved Economy Propel LCD TV Panels to Surprising Growth in 1H
An unforeseen increase in global liquid crystal display television (LCD TV) panel shipments occurred in the first six months of 2014.
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Cavium Buys Xpliant for Ethernet Switch Silicon
Cavium has been nurturing stealthy startup Xpliant with investment funds but reckons that with a next-generation Ethernet switch silicon offering imminent it is time to acquire the company.
