Samsung Announces 2GHz, Cortex A15-based 5250 SoC for Tablets

From DailyTech: The mobile market is heating up with consumers flocking to smartphones and tablets in record numbers. Samsung is looking to strengthen its position in these markets thanks to the new Exynos 5250 SoC which is the follow-up to the Exynos 4210 used in the popular Galaxy...

Google Launches Indoor Mapping with Google Maps 6.0

From DailyTech: Google Maps has unveiled a new type of mapping service for Android devices and allows you to find out where you are and what's around you indoors. The app supports several different types of locations.

If you travel a lot, it will be a very nice update. The app...

Intel Reveals Ivy Bridge Chip Performance Numbers to Partners

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has revealed official performance advantage expectations for its next-generation microprocessors code-named Ivy Bridge. Thanks to new micro-architectural improvements, the world's largest chipmaker expects Core i 3000-series processors to deliver up to 25...

Lenovo unveils three new Android tablets 5, 7, and 10 inchers

From CNET News.com: Lenovo is shaking up the tablet market with three new devices scheduled to hit its home base of China next month.

Ranging in size from five to seven to ten inches, the new tablets will be branded under Lenovo's LePad name in China but will be known as the IdeaPad...

New Skyrim Patch 1.2 Fixes All Kinds of Stuff

From PC World: I wouldn't normally bother writing about a game patch, because aren't there better things to bother you with? But I'm still playing Skyrim, and I know a bunch of you are, too, and that as miraculously playable as Skyrim turned out to be at launch, it has its share of...

Apple Approves Illicit Tethering App for iPhone

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) App Store regulators are at times a baffling lot. Some apps get the boot for seemingly no good reason. And other apps get approved, only to get later yanked.

The most recent App Store controversy comes in form of iTether, an iPad/iPhone app...

Price of DRAM Continues to Drop Rapidly

From X-bit Labs: Due to slow season, oversupply of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and shortages of hard disk drives (HDDs) pricing of computer memory continues to decrease. The contract price of 4GB DDR3 memory module in the second half of November was down to $17.5 (-7.9%)...

Seagate Cuts Shipments Forecast Amid Market Uncertainties

From X-bit Labs: Seagate Technology on Monday updated its financial outlook for the December 2011 and March 2012 quarters. The company reduced both its own and total available market (TAM) predictions due to shortages of components for hard disk drive (HDD). Seagate continues to...

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