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• 07 June 2012

• News: Three vendors are better than one, say users

  The idea of a heterogeneous environment remains a very powerful force in IT.

• News: Texas Instruments hopes to expand Android 4.0 to more low-cost devices

  Android 4.0 can now be used on low-cost and low-power devices, thanks to a new SDK (software development kit) for Texas Instruments' Sitara processors, the chip maker said on Wednesday.

• News: Charge your phone, with your other phone

  A Taiwanese company is demonstrating two-way touch charging this week at the Computex exhibition, using a new chip that allows two people to share one phone's battery by holding their devices together.

• News: Samsung is investing $1.9 billion in mobile processors

  Samsung Electronics is investing 2.25 trillion Korean won (US$1.92 billion) to expand its mobile processor manufacturing capabilities, the company said on Thursday.

• 06 June 2012

• News: Hard drive prices to remain high until 2014

  A new report from IHS iSuppli states that drive prices that skyrocketed after flooding in Thailand will remain high for the next couple of years.

• News: Intel, ARM trade barbs over Windows 8, RT

  With the big release of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system fast approaching, the war of words between Intel and ARM has become more heated as the rivals gear up for the release of new touch-based devices with their processors.

• News: ViewSonic to challenge Wacom in drawable LCD screens, readying 32-inch pen-on-display

  For the growing community of artists and designers that draw directly on touch-sensitive screens, workspace is a major factor, and monitor maker ViewSonic is readying a 32-inch monster.

• News: Nvidia: First $199 'Kai' tablets will be announced this year

  The first tablets based on Nvidia's Kai platform, which is being built to enable quad-core, 7-inch Android devices for around US$200, will be announced in the second half of the year, an Nvidia executive said this week.

• News: AMD chases Intel ultrabooks with Trinity laptop-tablet hyrid

  Advanced Micro Devices showed off a Windows 8 tablet-laptop hybrid running on the company's A-series chips code-named Trinity, taking direct aim at Intel's effort to chase touchscreen ultrabooks running on Ivy Bridge processors.

• 05 June 2012

• News: NetApp boosts entry-level array performance

  NetApp announced a significant refresh of its FAS2220 storage array, increasing performance by three times and memory six times for the same price as the previous version.

• News: Belkin and Matrox set to bring USB 3.0 to the Mac via Thunderbolt

  Two docking station products set to ship in September of this year promise to bring USB 3.0, and much more, to the Mac.

• News: SanDisk enters server acceleration market with PCIe card

  SanDisk entered the growing marketplace for solid-state accelerator products with its own PCI Express card designed to boost the performance of workstations and servers used in data centers, server farms and cloud computing environments.

• News: Windows RT tablets could cost $500 to $700

  Windows RT tablets could cost $500 to $700 -- too high to make them viable in a market filled with less expensive tablets, according to an IDC analyst .

• News: Nvidia Launches Mobile GTX 680 GPU

  High end mobile graphics chips have classically suffered in two ways: performance and power. Performance never approaches that of desktop GPUs while power consumption results in short battery life and overheated systems.

• News: Intel open to Windows Phone OS on smartphones

  Intel is open to bringing Microsoft's Windows Phone OS to smartphones based on its x86 chips, but only if it is commercially viable, the company said on Tuesday.

• News: Hands on with Windows RT and Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4

  Qualcomm gave reporters a chance to try out Windows RT on its Snapdragon S4 processor at the Computex trade show Wednesday, though there's still no word when Windows tablets on Qualcomm hardware will hit the market.

• News: Intel provides a glimpse into future of ultrabooks

  Intel provided a glimpse into the future of ultrabooks on Tuesday, saying the next big thing for the emerging class of thin and light laptops is natural interaction through sight, sound and touch.

• News: ARM server built by Taiwanese manufacturer MiTAC revealed

  ARM on Tuesday showed a server using its processors built by Taiwanese manufacturer MiTAC, which will join U.S. makers Dell and Hewlett-Packard in producing ARM-based servers.

• News: Intel says 20 Windows 8 tablets in works with new Clover Trail chip

  Intel is seeking a reboot in the tablet market with its upcoming Atom Z2760 chips code-named Clover Trail, and 20 tablets are in the works with the new chips, the company said on Tuesday.

• 04 June 2012

• News: HP, Oracle clash over what their Hurd deal's wording means

  Hewlett-Packard said Oracle committed itself to porting its core software products to future versions of Itanium in a 2010 partnership agreement with HP, while Oracle said that deal fell far short of a true contract, as the companies' lawyers gave opening arguments on Monday in a courtroom in San Jose, California.

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