[PN] Tech News Update - 26/01/12

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HTC Might Announce 4 New Android Devices at MWC

There has been lot of leaked information about products which will be announced at the coming Mobile World Congress next month including products from Samsung , LG and HTC etc. HTC is expected to announce 4 new android based devices including three phones and one tablet at MWC .

First of the device is quad core cpu powered HTC Edge , featuring a 4.7 display , 8 Megapixel camera and Android ICS 4.0 .

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Next is HTC ville which is expected to be equipped with 1.5GHz dual core processor , 4.3" qHD display , 8 Megapixel Camera and Android ICS .

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The third possible phone that could be announced is HTC Primo , a beats audio equipped entry level smartphone with 3.7" display and 1GHz dual core rocessor , 512MB RAM and 5 Megapixel Camera

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The company may also reveal its quad-core tegra 3 powered tablet called HTC Quattro sporting 10.1" display , 1GB RAM , Android 4.0 and also HTC scribe stylus support .

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source : CNET

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World's first 100 Core Chip Created By Indian At MIT

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Anant Agarwal ,an Indian genious at MIT and his team is manufacturing first 100 core chip in his commertial venture Tilera .The chip is targeted towards servers providing energy efficiency and high performance . The chip uses an on chip switch instead of regular bus to communicate with other processor or "tiles" and each core having its own L1 and L2 cache . The 64 core chip from tilera when tested against Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron yielded atleast 67% higher throughput compared to low power x86 servers .

source : siliconindia

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Motorola Files A New Lawsuit Against Apple

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Motorola- Apple patent war continues with Motorola filing a new lawsuit against Apple and its two latest offerings iPhone 4S and iCloud . This is Motorola's second lawsit against Apple in this court with the claim that Apple has infringed on its several patents . Motorola is now seeking damages and injunction on the infringing products iPhone 4S and iCloud .

Source : CNET

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Apple Announces Record Sales In Last Quarter

Apple's Numbers for the last quarter are out , showing a big boost in sales for its iPhone And iPad products during the holiday season last year . The iPhone sales almost doubled over the last year and accounted of 53% of Apple's revenue selling 37 million phones , while 15 million iPads were sold . Apple posted earnings of $13 billion , $13.87 per share compared to $6 a year ago . Apple's shares are trading near record high levels , jumping by 9% after Apple declared the numbers .

source : msnbc

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Symantec Tells Customers to Disable pcAnywhere

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Symantec corp. has advised its customers to stop using its product pcAnywhere , due to a leak of source code which hackers can use to attack companies and possibly start unauthorized remote sessions . pcAnywhere is a suite for remote connection to a computer running the pcAnywhere host through internet. Hackers from India , affiliated to Anonymous hacktivist group claim to have stolen the code from Indian military intelligence servers . These hackers have threatened to attack companies using the code and to release it publicly .

Source CNET

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Rumor : iPhone 5 Could Have Four Inch Screen

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The iPhone 5 will have a four inch screen and a different casing from iPhone 4 , says the latest report from 9to5mac blog . The report supposedly comes from a reliable source at Foxconn in China ( the company that produces iPhones for Apple ) . The report also says that the design will not have teardrop-shape as rumored before and the samples are symmetrical in shape with longer and wider size. In addition the rumor suggests that Apple is readying the next gen iPad possibly with higher resolution screen for release during sometime in summer .

source : 9to5mac

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Open WebOS 1.0 Could be Available By September

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HP had announced that its webOS platform will become open source . Finally HP has revealed the details when the developers will be getting the source code . It expects the entire webOS to be available as open source by September . The application framework Enyo 2.0 is now available with developer tools which lets developers built apps for webOS devices. The company also expects major releases in the following months which could include moving to standard linux kernel ,and some other major changes in the webOS internals . The report shows HP's plans and details till the final September release .

Source : theverge

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^^^Ditto. All their phones look similar, higher end models are just extended variants of lower end.

Seesh! can't they come up with new design. Atleast motorola does it
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