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• 02 May 2013

• News: MediaTek to improve low-cost Android smartphone performance

  Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572.

• News: AMD thinks beyond PCs with new custom chip business unit

  Armed with a contract to build chips for Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console, Advanced Micro Devices has now officially established a custom-chip business unit in an effort to break away from its heavy reliance on the slumping PC market.

• News: Intel's Haswell gets massive graphics performance boost

  Intel is expected to announce its fourth-generation Core processors code-named Haswell for laptops and desktops in June, but the company is already releasing teasers that talk about their performance.

• 01 May 2013

• News: Electricity zaps gamers' muscles for force feedback

  A research project on show at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Paris uses a small electrical current to give the sensation of force feedback while gaming.

• 30 April 2013

• News: Verizon rolls out mostly pointless cloud-storage service

  Verizon Wireless has announced a new cloud-storage service to compete with Dropbox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive, but it's not really clear why anyone would use it in place of those services.

• News: Feature bloat creates storage woes for the 16GB Galaxy S4

  Modern gadgets usually have less than the advertised storage space actually available for users, but Samsung is taking software bloat to a whole new level with the Galaxy S4 Android smartphone.

• News: Samsung builds chips to supercharge your smartphone

  Samsung began production of the industry's first ultra-high-speed, 4Gbit, LPDDR3 mobile memory, which it says has performance levels comparable to the standard DRAM used in personal computers.

• News: Details expected soon on Intel's $200 laptop and tablet chip architecture

  Intel is expanding into low-cost laptops and tablets starting at US$200 with new low-power Atom chips based on an architecture called Silvermont, which the company is expected to talk about next week, according to a source familiar with Intel's plans.

• News: How to build a bulletproof cloud backup system without spending a dime

  There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who have lost critical data, and those who will. In other words, if you use technology long enough and neglect to back up your data, you're guaranteed to have at least one extremely bad day. Whether it's theft, loss, fire, flood, corruption, or some form of malware, a single incident can destroy the lion's share of your family photos, personal documents, address books, years-in-the-making music library, and more.

• News: Take our mobile survey and you might win an iPad mini

  TechHive's parent company, IDG, is once again conducting its annual Global Mobile Survey, which quizzes you on your mobile-device habits and media consumption so we can learn more about how people are using their smartphones and tablets today. Readers who participate will be entered in a drawing for a chance to win an iPad mini.

• News: Flexible, networked e-ink displays mimic physical documents

  Researchers demonstrated flexible, networked e-ink displays that behave like papers on a desk at a conference in Paris. The displays can be used separately or in tandem, opening up new possibilities for a paperless office.

• News: Consortium takes steps to break multicore programming barriers

  Programming for multicore systems can be complex, so an industry consortium led by Advanced Micro Devices has taken a step ahead in its goal to eliminate development challenges so applications are portable across devices, architectures and operating systems

• 29 April 2013

• News: Intel starts countdown clock for next-gen Haswell chips

  In just a few weeks, Intel's one-chip-fits all family of core processors will finally meet Microsoft's one-design-fits all operating system, Windows 8. The chip maker recently announced it will unveil the first round of Haswell Core processors on June 3.

• News: Nextgen Distribution partners with Violin Memory

  Nextgen Distribution has partnered with Violin Memory, a maker of flash-based storage systems to help it expand in Australia and New Zealand.

• News: Computer interaction conference promises cutting-edge demos

  There will be a ton of interesting research and prototypes on display at the Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Paris this week.

• 28 April 2013

• News: Future of computer interaction on display in Paris

  The future of computing comes to Paris this week with the annual Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference, which showcases new approaches to the way users connect with electronics.

• 26 April 2013

• News: Your next smartphone could have a projector, courtesy of Lumiode LED microdisplays

  If you think the Retina display on an iPad looks unreal with its 2048 by 1536-pixel resolution at 264 pixels per inch, just imagine a display with 2,500 individual LEDs in a package that's only five square-centimeters in size--that's smaller than just about any piece of your phone.

• News: Samsung profits soar on phones, tablets; high hopes for Galaxy S4

  Samsung Electronics said its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 helped it to defy a shrinking smartphone market in the first quarter, boosting its overall profits by 42 percent from a year ago.

• 25 April 2013

• News: Box sets its sights on healthcare customers

  Box is taking steps to increase usage of its cloud storage and file sharing system in the health care industry, where it sees a demand for tools that simplify content collaboration.

• 24 April 2013

• News: AMD's Radeon HD 7990: Not as pricey as you might think

  Just about anyone would think twice before dropping a cool grand on a new video card, no matter how powerful it might be. But if you're a gamer, AMD's Never Settle Reloaded marketing program reduces the effective cost of any of its Radeon 7990 series by as much as $300.

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