New nano-SIM card will result in thinner smartphones

From InfoWorld: A new, smaller SIM card, dubbed nano-SIM, will free up room for additional memory and larger batteries, helping phone vendors create thinner devices, German company Giesecke & Devrient said on Friday.

Measuring approximately 12 millimeters by 9 millimeters, the nano...

Adobe Will Keep Patching Flash on Mobile -- For Now

From PC World: Adobe has promised to support the soon-to-be-orphaned Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers, but has not said how long it will continue to patch security bugs in the software.

In a blog post Wednesday, Danny Winokur, the Adobe executive in charge of interactive...

Logitech Gives Up On Google TV

From PC World: Logitech, one of the first backers of Google TV, is walking away after losing millions of dollars on its Revue set-top box.

With Google TV on the Revue, Logitech "executed a full scale launch with a beta product and it cost us dearly," a slide from the company's...

ARM Intros Eight-core Graphics Chip for Next-gen Superphones

From PC World: The Mali-T658 graphics processor announced by ARM on Wednesday can be equipped with up to eight cores to help it deliver ten times the graphics performance of the company's existing GPU.

The superior graphics performance is compared to the Mali-400 MP, which is used...

The coming hard-drive hit on PC makers

From CNET News.com: PC makers are likely to weather any hard-drive shortages in the fourth quarter since they have inventory of supplies as a buffer. The first quarter, however, could be tricky, according to Jefferies.

In a research note previewing Dell and Hewlett-Packard earnings...

Amazon Announces Variety of Apps for Kindle Fire

From DailyTech: With less than one week until the launch of Amazon's first tablet, Kindle Fire, the electronic commerce giant has announced that several popular Android apps will be available for the new tab upon its release.

Kindle Fire features a 7-inch multi-touch display with a...

Details About Intel Haswell Emerge: 2-4 Cores, New Graphics Core,

From X-bit Labs: The very first details about the actual microprocessors based on code-named Haswell micro-architecture for mainstream desktops and notebooks have emerged on the Internet. Instead of increasing the number of cores inside its microprocessors, Intel Corp. will continue...

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