Around the web
5 Sep 20134 Sep 20133 Sep 20132 Sep 201330 Aug 201329 Aug 201328 Aug 2013
Sony has announced the first LED-based LCD TV with a curved screen.
CNETAsia
Xiaomi Corp., the smartphone maker that outsells Apple Inc. (AAPL) in China, has beat it on another front. The Chinese company will soon offer a TV that connects to the Web and runs on the Android operating system.
Bloomberg
There's less than a week left until Apple's big event on Sept. 10. Everyone is expecting Apple to launch a new line (or lines) of iPhones, but on Tuesday, rumors began to fly about another potential announcement this month: a new Apple TV.
Huffington Post
Panasonic has confirmed it is to stop selling smartphones in its home market Japan. It said it would also begin outsourcing production of handsets sold to other countries such as India.
BBC News
Qualcomm will release a Qualcomm branded smartwatch designed to serve as a second display to your smartphone in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Company release
SK Hynix Inc said on Wednesday it had suspended operations at its China plant, which produces around 12% of global computer memory chips, because of a fire.
Reuters
The primary advantages of Intel's Haswell Core architecture, as Forbes contributor Pat Moorehead pointed out, are graphics and multimedia performance, as well as power consumption.
Forbes
A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations.
TG Daily
The rupee's biggest plunge in 20 years is endangering the recovery of India's $1.6 billion wind power industry as higher finance and import costs negate benefits from a government subsidy restored last month.
Business Wire
In the days before the official start of the Berlin-based technology conference known as IFA 2013, Panasonic is aiming to stir up some excitement with word of a 20-inch 4K tablet.
SlashGear
Sky now claims that it's the first UK TV network to have conducted a live 4K broadcast.
engadget
Despite being among the world's top laptop makers, Acer has yet to make a name for itself internationally as a smartphone manufacturer.
The Verge
Technology for producing TV-size OLED screens hasn't yet matured, and it's also difficult for electronics makers to make a lot of capital investment in that area, given low expected returns in the thin-margin TV market.
The Wall Street Journal
The world's thinnest smartphone is, for the moment, Huawei's Ascend P6, whose 6.18mm thickness is a key attraction.
ZDNet
Verizon has agreed to pay US$130 billion to take full control of Verizon Wireless from UK partner Vodafone, the companies said Monday.
CNNMoney
The US, Japan, Australia and South Korea have all widely adopted 4G, but mobile phone users in many parts of the UK may have to wait until the end of 2015 for comprehensive coverage.
BBC News
The company formed a foundry business about three years ago, but until recently its customers have been tiny companies.
EBN
Microsoft has posted the presentation it's used to explain its decision to acquire Nokia's mobile phone business and it reveals the key reason for the acquisition: hitting back at Apple and Google.
The Register
Imagination Technologies will release a new CPU design in 2014 for low-power servers.
InfoWorld
Apple and Samsung may be planning watches, but Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor said that big-name brands may not dominate the wearable computing market the way they have the phone business.
All Things Digital
Samsung is laying ground for big, competitive moves this fall with two new devices that could amp up its rivalry with Apple.
Washington Post
The TV maker joins Sony and Samsung in slashing the prices of its 4K Ultra-High Definition TVs by four figures. They're still very expensive, however.
CNET
It took me a while to get used to Windows 8 on touch tablets, but with the right device the OS from Microsoft impresses me. It does some things better than others, and the dual nature of Windows 8 (Metro and desktop) is challenging.
ZDNet
One of Google's top executives is leaving the company to join up-and-coming Chinese firm Xiaomi.
BBC News
While showing production values of less than 3nm wavelength uniformity, the 1.0nm result came straight from development. The record 1.0 nm result demonstrates the capability to achieve "1 bin" GaN-on-Si LED wafers with Azzuro's technology.
Company release
"HTC is developing a mobile-software system specifically for Chinese consumers..."
Wall Street Journal
"Android's persistent fragmentation problem isn't just a Google problem, but a federal government concern too."
The Verge
Moore's Law - the ability to pack twice as many transistors on the same sliver of silicon every two years - will come to an end as soon as 2020 at the 7nm node, said a keynoter at the Hot Chips conference here.
EE Times
248/1504 pages