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Samsung Agrees to Pay Microsoft an Android Tax -> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2011, @08:54AM

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has reached an agreement with Samsung that sees the Redmond-based software giant receive royalties for every Android-based device sold, with the company once again arguing that Android — and Linux in general — infringe on its patents."
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Nvidia's Kal-El Tegra to Pack Five Cores-> 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Tuesday September 20 2011, @12:04PM

Blacklaw writes "Nvidia has released a few technical details of its upcoming 'Kal-El' Tegra processor, including a secret it's done well to keep under its hat thus far: it's a five-core, not four-core, chip."
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SPAM: Arduino Goes ARM With New Due Board 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Monday September 19 2011, @05:12AM

Blacklaw writes "Arduino, the company behind the eponymous open source hardware prototyping platform, has announced a pair of new products at the Maker Faire in New York City for the second year in a row, including the Arduino Due with a 32-bit ARM-based processor in place of the usual ATMega chip."
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CyanogenMod Demos Near-Complete TouchPad Android-> 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Monday September 19 2011, @04:42AM

Blacklaw writes "HP's discounted TouchPad looks set to become an even bigger bargain, with noted Android hacking group CyanogenMod announcing a version of CyanogenMod 7 which brings a near-complete build of Google's software to the device."
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Qualcomm Goes Open Source With AllJoyn Project-> 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Friday September 16 2011, @08:11AM

Blacklaw writes ""It's unexpected from Qualcomm," Qualcomm Innovation Center president Rob Chandhok admits in an interview with thinq_ about the company's open source AllJoyn proximity-based networking platform project. "Like 'wait, is this a guy from Qualcomm that just said that?' In my mind there's two ways that you standardise something: one is you wind your way through a standards body, and you standardise the APIs, and you then have proprietary implementations. The other way is that you open-source it and it becomes a de facto standard, because it's useful." The full interview has plenty of detail about Qualcomm's belief in the open source methodology, plus details of the AllJoyn project itself."
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Computing Pioneer Tony Sale Dies Aged 80-> 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Tuesday August 30 2011, @10:35AM

Blacklaw writes "Tony Sale, computing pioneer and the man behind the rebuild of the Colossus machine at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, has died aged 80."
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Tech educators Point Schmidt at Success in School-> 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Monday August 29 2011, @06:10AM

Blacklaw writes "Eric Schmidt's announcement last week at the MacTaggart Lecture that Britain is "throwing away [its] great computing heritage" by ignoring computing in education was a wake-up call for the industry and the education sector alike. But the Google chairman isn't the only one thinking that way: 24 hours prior to Schmidt's speech, an industry and educational summit was taking place that aimed to address that exact issue."
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Raspberry Pi Takes Aim at the Education Market-> 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Monday August 29 2011, @06:09AM

Blacklaw writes "Attendees of the Educating Programmers Summit found themselves treated to a demonstration of the Raspberry Pi single-board computer by co-creator Eben Upton. Based on chips from Upton's day job at Broadcom, the Raspberry Pi is an entirely functional computer which will hit a retail price of just $25 in its basic incarnation — addressing one of the issues preventing the teaching of programming in schools today."
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JEDEC Reveals DDR4 DRAM Enhancements-> 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Tuesday August 23 2011, @12:00PM

Blacklaw writes "The new DDR4 standard includes an increase in maximum theoretical performance to 3.2 gigatransfers per second per pin, from the 1.6GT/s per pin of DDR3. However, the group admits that DDR3 looks like smashing the originally set 1.6GT/s maximum, meaning that DDR4 could have its upper limit raised still further before the standard becomes set in stone."
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Intel digs deep for SRAM radiation tests-> 0

Submitted by Blacklaw on Tuesday August 16 2011, @07:40AM

Blacklaw writes "Intel has been testing some of its chips in a rather novel environment, 2,150 feet below the surface of the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico, in order to get to the bottom of errors caused by radiation."
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