THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The man on the door, who wants to install a radio frequency chip in your house that carries the name of the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, is no intruder. In fact, he is there to connect your household to the Corporation main office, enabling the local body to monitor the door-to-door services that it renders, whether that be regarding waste collection or property tax collection. It was as part of a...
09:18 AM, Jan 12, 2012
Las Vegas: Motorola Mobility and Lenovo on Tuesday said they will use Intel processors in smartphones and other devices, giving the chipmaker its first entry into a market it has long coveted. Intel Corp. has struggled to bring down the power consumption of its chips so that they can be used in phones without draining the battery in a matter of hours. Meanwhile, phone-style chips from other manufacturers are starting...
09:25 AM, Jan 11, 2012
Seoul: South Korea said on Wednesday it had approved a plan by Samsung Electronics Co to build a flash memory chip plant in China seen costing some $4 billion, as a boom in smartphones and tablet computers fuels the chip industry's growth. The plant would be Samsung's second overseas chip manufacturing site and reflects the growing importance of the Chinese market. China's consumption of NAND-type flash memory chips is set...
11:56 AM, Jan 04, 2012
Tokyo: NTT Docomo Inc, Japan's biggest mobile phone service operator, said Tuesday it will partner with South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co and other Japanese firms to develop chips for smartphones. Docomo and Samsung will be joined by NEC Corp Panasonic Corp and Fujitsu Ltd in the venture. Docomo will invest $5.8 million to create a subsidiary in preparation for the start of the partnership, it said in a statement. Fabricating...
02:23 PM, Dec 27, 2011
Los Angeles: Hollywood has picked up a little Christmas bonus. Studios generally underestimated the size of their movie audiences over the weekend, and they're now revising the holiday revenues upward. Leading the way is Tom Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol', which pulled in $29.5 million for the weekend. That Monday figure is $3 million more than distributor Paramount estimated a day earlier. For the four-day period Friday to Monday,...
12:58 PM, Dec 27, 2011
Los Angeles: Tom Cruise's latest mission has won a holiday weekend that's shaping up with some silent nights at movie theaters as business continues to lag. Studio estimates Sunday placed Cruise's 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol' a solid No. 1 with $26.5 million domestically over its first weekend in full release. The movie raised its total to $59 million since it started a week earlier in huge-screen cinemas and expanded...
12:09 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Santa Clara: Mike Bell likens his new job at Intel Corp to piloting a glider. The engineer Intel is counting on to spearhead a belated drive into the smartphone arena has refocused its development arm, brought in new blood, and tried to inculcate an appreciation for gadgetry at the decades-old institution. Now, with Intel at a critical juncture as it prepares to trot out the first smartphones powered by its...
04:11 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: Every once in a while there are these stunning, intelligent, sarcastic animated movies that have the power to entertain any adult. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked is clearly not one of them. Directed by Mike Mitchell and written by Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Ross Bagdasarian and Janice Karman " Chipwrecked is rather boring, it can only decently amuse the kids. Pixar has aced the adult-child comedy, Fox probably...
02:19 PM, Dec 24, 2011
After playing a superhero in Ra.One, Shah Rukh Khan returns as the Don in Farhan Akhtar's Don 2. ...
09:13 AM, Dec 23, 2011
Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks stops by to say hello at the CNN-IBN newsroom in Mumbai, dancing and spreading Christmas cheer. ...
05:14 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Los Angeles: Sherlock Holmes is facing his worst enemy: declining crowds at theaters as this year's domestic movie attendance dips to the lowest in 16 years. Robert Downey Jr.'s sequel 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' debuted on top with a $40 million weekend, off 36 percent from the first installment's $62.3 million opening two years ago, according to studio estimates Sunday. The first movie opened over Christmas weekend, one...
01:44 PM, Dec 19, 2011
California: Intel Corp warned that hard-disk drive supply shortages would hurt its current-quarter revenue, the latest heavyweight in the PC industry to caution about the effects of flooding that has crippled factories in Thailand. The warning sent shares of the world's top chipmaker down 4.8 per cent and weighed on Wall Street. Hundreds of people have died in flooding in Thailand that has caused billions of dollars in damages since...
11:03 AM, Dec 13, 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Police intervened and halted a mysterious survey which was going on for the past one month in areas near Beema Palli setting panic among local people. The survey was reportedly conducted by a Vellayambalam-based research agency Socio Economic Unit, for multinational companies such as Unilever Research Medicine UK, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Intertab CRS Ltd. Soaps and toilet mugs with concealed microchips were distributed to...
11:31 AM, Dec 11, 2011
Seoul: Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it plans to build a flash memory chip plant in China, seen costing some $4 billion, as a boom in smartphones and tablet computers is set to fuel the $22 billion chip industry's growth next year. The plant, if approved, would be Samsung's second overseas chip manufacturing site and reflects the growing importance of Chinese market. Samsung, the world's top maker of memory chips...
01:43 PM, Dec 06, 2011
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