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ComScore: Android grows larger than ever among US subscribers, Apple belittles RIM

The latest ComScore results from the last quarter are in, and the US mobile device wars were hotter than ever as 13% more people reported owning a smartphone. Google conquered most users' territory with An    

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Industry leaders form Embedded Vision Alliance, enabling "machines that see"

More than fifteen leading technology companies have joined forces to speed the adoption of computer vision capabilities in electronic products. The ability of machines to see and understand their environments -    

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Commentary: Tablet PCs at a crossroads

While tablet PC is not a new product, it has begun to change the global view toward the computer industry. It is a device combining wireless communications, software and hardware technologies that fit with user    

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Intel ships 100 million Atoms, celebrates third birthday of netbook CPU

Intel's Atom processor and the rise of the netbook have gone hand in hand, which has to this date resulted in a tally of one hundred million CPUs shipped by Intel. And though netboks are not quite the new    

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Microsoft will talk about 'the next version' of Windows at Computex tonight

Microsoft's Computex keynote today was all about the software giant's expansive portfolio of current offerings, but it started off with a pretty awesome promise: a partner preview event is coming tomo    

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iPad 3 unlikely to adopt AMOLED panels

Market rumors that Apple hopes to use AMOLED panels for iPad 3 have been dismissed by industry sources as the capacity of AMOLED panels is still too low. Hence it would be unlikely for firms to meet the large d    

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Computex buzz: ARM vs Intel keeps people talking

Considering the rapid growth of Android-based mobile computing devices, the mobile segment really is on a tear. Nvidia recently pointed out that the cumulative shipments of iOS and Android devices took just two    

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Live from D9: Google's Eric Schmidt takes the stage

We're settled in here at D9, and while it's probably past your bedtime back east, a couple of bigwigs are about to say quite a few interesting things at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, Cal    

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