NewsFactor - Global mobile handset sales fell 9.4 percent year on year to 269.1 million units in the first quarter, even as smartphone sales rose 12.7 percent to 36.4 million units, according to Gartner.
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Tessera Wins Dispute
Tessera Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it won a patent dispute over small-format semiconductor packaging products, with the International Trade Commission issuing a cease-and-desist order against rivals Motorola Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Freescale Semiconductor Inc. and Spansion Inc.
The Second Top Government Advisor Resigns
White House cybersecurity adviser Howard Schmidt has resigned his post, becoming the second top government adviser to leave this year. Schmidt was nominated as vice chairman of the president’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board in December 2001, He served as deputy to former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke. Clarke left his post in February. The [...]
The Cheapest Car In The World
The Nano is the cheapest car in the world. This latest development of Tata Motors is a technological invention, which comes in a compact package and gives you a mileage of 50 miles per gallon. The company has the plan to sell the car for only $2,500. The production has already begun in the plant [...]
Blu-ray Disks Are Not Even Entirely Safe
There was a report of blu-ray being hacked recently though it has been un-hacked now. The blu-ray disk of the movie Jumper was protected with recently updated BD+ secondary layer of blu-ray as reported by ArsTechnica. It was secure for a week but after that a cracking application flooded the market, which helped in cracking [...]
New Medical Frontier
Yet another medical frontier has been crossed, and the concept of us being able to grow new organs has now become a reality. Surgeons have used stem cells to grow replacement body parts in a new and fantastic innovation. The success of the transplant of a windpipe grown from stem cells has opened up several [...]
