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Broadcom developing chipsets to bring 4G to low-cost smartphones

Feb 10, 2014

Broadcom is developing chipsets that officials said will make it easier for device makers to bring 4G connectivity to low-cost...

Intel develops low-power graphics core that is 40% more efficient

Feb 10, 2014

Graphics hardware can rapidly drain a laptop's battery. If Intel brings a new low-power graphics core to market, though, high-performance visuals and...

Foxconn to invest $1 billion in Indonesia in order to build factories

Feb 10, 2014

Foxconn, the Taiwanese maker of Apple's iPhones, has signed a letter of intent to invest up to $US1 billion in...

Pwn2Own will offer $645,000 in awards to hackers who find unknown exploits

Feb 9, 2014

For a while, late in 2013, things didn't look too good for the annual Vancouver-based security conference CanSecWest, or for...

Fone Free Feb encourages people to take a break from their mobile devices

Feb 9, 2014

Fone Free Feb is, like Dry July and Ocsober, encouraging Aussies to give up something for a month. In this...

Australian lawyers accept Bitcoin as valid currency

Feb 2, 2014

Technology continues to amaze us and revolutionize the way we interact with the world. For those slow to embrace change, technology...

Blinkx contests Harvard professor’s concerns about its business model

Jan 30, 2014

London-listed video search and ad company Blinkx said it "strongly refutes" assertions made in a blog post that raised concerns...

Facebook stores “cold data” on 10,000 Blu-ray discs

Jan 29, 2014

When the average person thinks about 10,000 Blu-ray discs, they likely imagine an impressive movie collection, but when Facebook Vice President of...

Family sues Uber over the death of their daughter

Jan 28, 2014

A San Francisco family that lost its six-year-old daughter, Sofia Liu, in a local traffic accident involving an Uber driver...

Law enforcement documents stolen from Microsoft by hackers

Jan 27, 2014

Microsoft has revealed this week that documents "associated with law enforcement inquiries" were stolen during recent attacks on employee email...

CNN is the latest victim of Syrian Electronic Army hackers

Jan 24, 2014

CNN's social outlets and even one of its blogs were briefly compromised by hacker group the Syrian Electronic Army on...

New iPhone sales cause Samsung profits to drop

Jan 24, 2014

Samsung, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones, posted its slowest profit growth since 2011 as new Appl iPhones lured high-end customers and...