Galaxy Ace Plus is More Powerful, But Still Packs a Weak Punch

From DailyTech: The iPhone 4/4S by Apple, Inc. (AAPL) may be trailing the barrage of high-end Android phones in cumulative sales, but it has earned high marks for its Retina display (960x640 pixel; 326 ppi). Nonetheless, HTC Corp.'s (TPE:2498) Rezound smartphone recently passed the...

Elpida May Team Up with Toshiba or Micron for Survival

From X-bit Labs: In a bid to survive on the market of dynamic random access memory, Elpida Memory, which has to pay over $1.4 billion in April, 2012, the company may try to merge with its rivals. A possible combination will include Elpida, Micron and Toshiba, which has all chances to...

Out of the Frying Pan? Nintendo 3DS Sells 4 Million Units in U.S.

From PC World: Welcome back to the land of happy press stories, Nintendo: The company says it's now sold four million 3DS game systems in the U.S., adding that its no-glasses 3D handheld has so far sold "more in its first nine months than the Wii did." Altogether, Nintendo sold 12...

Asus could unveil 7-inch tablet at CES next week

From CNET News.com: Asus may pull the curtain back to reveal a new 7-inch Android tablet next week at CES, but just which one remains a mystery.

Leaking a few details and a possible image of the prospective tablet, Italian tech news site Notebook Italia (English translation) said...

VIA Outs VB7009 Mini-ITX Embedded Board

From DailyTech: VIA has unveiled its latest embedded mainboard in the tiny mini-ITX form-factor. The new mainboard is called the VB7009 and measures 17cm square. VIA is aiming it at the POS and kiosk industry the board has a VIA Nano X2 processor onboard that is paired with the VX900...

Qualcomm to Lead ARM in War Against Intel With New Laptop Chips

From DailyTech: The war between Intel Corp. (INTC) and the alliance of chipmakers using ARM Holdings, Plc.'s (LON:ARM) titular core designs is heating up. Intel is the world's largest personal computer CPU maker, while ARM Holdings is the largest core licenser on the general CPU...

AMD Readies Sea Islands Family of Graphics Processors

From X-bit Labs: The recent firings from Advanced Micro Devices apparently reduced not only marketing and PR personnel, but also engineers. Fired in November, 2011, a hardware designer from AMD has disclosed the code-name of the company’s next-generation of graphics processors – Sea...

DRAM Pricing Stabilizes at $16.5 per 4GB Module

From X-bit Labs: Reduction of manufacturing of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in late 2011 stabilized memory price in the second half of December despite of seasonally low demand.

According to DRAMeXchange, a research division of TrendForce, while the market has entered the...

Star Wars: The Old Republic Shatters MMO Sales Records

From PC World: With World of Warcraft holding the MMO throne, whenever I hear about a new massively multiplayer online game being produced a part of my brain wonders “why bother?” Clearly I do not work for Bioware (and with that line of thinking, I never will), as in just a little...

IE Market Share Drops, Sub-50% Share Predicted by March

From DailyTech: For many years Internet Explorer was the top dog when it came to web browsers. That was back when IE was the bundled browser with Windows and a lot of people didn’t know there were alternatives. Today, however, IE is under attack from more nimble competitors.

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