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Intel to overtake Qualcomm in 3 years-> 0

Submitted by GhostX9 on Thursday January 19, @07:51PM

GhostX9 writes "Tom's Hardware has an editorial that claims Intel is going to overtake Qualcomm in mobile despite the fact that Qualcomm had >$4B in sales last quarter and Intel has zero shipping smartphones. This contradicts the predictions made by most analysts. To support their argument, Tom's Hardware brings in a high level of expertise. Instead of focusing on "company resources" they focus on "human talent." They discuss Qualcomm's gamble on Globalfoundaries gate-first high-k/metal gate process which put them at a disadvantage to other ARM manufacturers like NVIDIA and Apple and discuss Qualcomm's loss of several key members from the GPU team in Finland last year, something that no analyst or other journalist has ever been reported before."
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Village Defense reinvents Neighborhood Watch with -> 1

Submitted by cylonlover on Thursday January 19, @07:45PM

cylonlover writes "If you've ever picked up a Neighborhood Watch newsletter and been astonished by the amount of crime in your community, you might be very interested in a new social software start-up named Village Defense. The software links neighbors to form a real-time communication system — one phone call notifies all neighbors (by text or phone) when a crime or suspicious activity is in progress. In the first pilot study of the new system, the increased awareness, greater availability of witnesses and shorter response times facilitated by Village Defense saw crime rates drop 58% in the first year."
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ASUS Eee Slate EP121-1A010M 12.1-Inch Tablet PC, T-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11, @11:35PM

An anonymous reader writes "ASUS Eee Slate EP121-1A010M 12.1-Inch Tablet PC is a newcomer who started to emulate the existence of the Apple iPad, the ASUS Eee slate into a new phenomenon on the market share of the laptop computer tablets."
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Does HP's PC Business Affect Enthusiasts?-> 0

Submitted by GhostX9 on Saturday September 03, @12:11AM

GhostX9 writes "Will the changes to HP's PC business affect gamers? Industry veterans, Chris Angelini and Alan Dang, debate this issue at Tom's Hardware with a combined 30 years of experience. It's a good read from two guys who have been writing about technology since the mid 90's."
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Living In An Unsecured World-> 0

Submitted by GhostX9 on Tuesday August 02 2011, @12:31AM

GhostX9 writes "Charlie Miller, Accuvant Principal Research Consultant, and keynote speaker at the recent NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence’s upcoming 3rd International Conference on Cyber Conflict, speaks with Alan Dang of Tom's Hardware about living in an unsecured world. In it, he goes over his recent MacBook battery exploit and the challenges of computing security in the upcoming future."
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Man vs. Machine-> 0

Submitted by GhostX9 on Sunday April 03 2011, @03:14PM

GhostX9 writes "A video of a surgeon using a $2M surgical robot to make a tiny paper airplane has been making its way around the blog-o-sphere. The demonstration is impressive until you see this video response which replicates the experience with an iPhone and a pair of disposable forceps. The surgeon in the second video happens to be a gamer/journalist whose technology and computer security articles have been featured on Slashdot in the past."
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Comment: Re:Not sure if this patent is still applicable (Score 1) 101

by GhostX9 on Saturday March 26 2011, @04:57PM (#35625016) Attached to: US ITC May Reverse Judge's Ruling In Kodak vs. Apple

If you read the patent instead of skimming it, they talk about how the processors can be integrated into a single integrated circuit. The trick behind patent lawsuits is to wait long enough so that the infringing companies owe you a lot of money, but not so long that you lose your ability to successfully win the lawsuit.

Comment: Re:Not sure if this patent is still applicable (Score 1) 101

by GhostX9 on Saturday March 26 2011, @04:55PM (#35625008) Attached to: US ITC May Reverse Judge's Ruling In Kodak vs. Apple

It doesn't apply to Foveon because the patent is about the way in which you take line skipped data from the CCD in a specific manner to maintain your Bayer-filter.

Comment: Explanation of the patent (Score 1) 101

by GhostX9 on Saturday March 26 2011, @04:54PM (#35625002) Attached to: US ITC May Reverse Judge's Ruling In Kodak vs. Apple

Kodak hasn't patented the idea of a video preview for a still camera. They patented the idea of taking limited information for the sensor (i.e. skipping pixels) in a specific way to provide a faster, low-quality video preview instead of previewing the data off the entire sensor. Additionally, they talk about taking the data off the sensor in a specific way so that the pixels still maintain the Bayer-filter. When Kodak sold off their OLED technology, I thought they were screwed. With this patent, they may actually have a case...

Charlie Miller on iOS4 security-> 0

Submitted by GhostX9 on Wednesday August 18 2010, @09:25AM

GhostX9 writes "Alan Dang from Tom's HW has just posted a brief interview with Charlie Miller, multiple pwn2own winner, seasoned iPhone hacker, and all-around good guy about the iOS4 vulnerability that allowed jailbreakme.com to work."
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