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Chipmaker Texas Instruments said Tuesday it will cut 1,100 jobs worldwide to trim costs and will reduce its investment in certain markets. The company says the cuts in its embedded processing unit and in Japan will result in $130 million in annual savings by the end of 2014. It was a mixed bag for T
Transparent screens just aren’t very practical these days, bigger models are frequently expensive and bulky, while smaller heads-up displays tend to have very narrow viewing angles. However, MIT may have solved all those problems at once with its prototype nanoparticle display. A transparent s
Developers really love Docker, the container technology that lets them develop an application once and run it anywhere, well on any Linux anyway. And now, Docker has $15 million in fresh Series B cash to build a business around that open source technology. That brings total funding to about $26 mill
Texting friends and family overseas can be pretty expensive, but Verizon doesn’t want that stopping you. Going forward, existing customers can sign up for a new $5 per month “World Messaging Unlimited” plan, which will allow users to send messages from the U.S. to others around “most of the world”.
The folks over at the USPTO did grant South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung a design patent today that depicts a smartphone which is large in size, clearly pointing to the very real possibility of a Galaxy device which will not feature hardware buttons that are located on the front. Samsun
Though cable companies are still dragging their feet, it is now clear that streaming video is the future of television. Subscriptions for streaming video services such as Netflix and Hulu are rising fast and hardware manufacturers are preparing to flood consumer markets with internet-connected video
China suffered a major Internet outage yesterday, which is said to have knocked out access to two-thirds of the .com domain websites in the country. An unidentified issue caused a large number of websites to be unreachable for at least one hour. During that period, Internet users were redirected to
BlackBerry stock is up by close to 9 percent in early-afternoon Tuesday trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange on news that the U.S. Defense Dept. will buy 80,000 smartphones from the once-ailing company. The rollout will begin January 31, and include 1,800 Apple and Android devices as part of a $16 m
We’ve seen many a tablet turn into a road warrior, or even a huge phone, with the addition of a SIM card. A phone becoming a tablet is a much scarcer transformation, but if any device can make that switch, it’s Sony’s nearly iPad mini-sized 6.44-inch, 1080p Xperia Z Ultra handset.
Kiev, Ukraine is the site of violent protest this week, as up to 100,000 people defied new laws which make it illegal to cover one’s face, wear a helmet, set up tents, or use a sound system in what was formerly a peaceful assembly. Protestors are using baseball bats, Molotov cocktails, and eve
Sony’s next flagship smartphone, believed to be codenamed “Sirius,” will come with 4K video recording, according to a new report. Xperia Blog, a site that follows Sony’s mobile moves, published images purporting to come from the device’s software. Among the features was
China’s massive growth in smartphone subscribers, highlighted on Tuesday by Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White, comes as Apple launched the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless provider, last Friday. As a result, White believes Apple is one of the best
