MediaTek expected to do well in the third quarter
Everyone wants its chips
MediaTek is to announce its third quarter results soon and the word on the street is that the outfit will do rather well.
Lenovo release Windows phone
Four years after the announcement
Lenovo has finally released a Windows phone almost four years after it was announced and two years late.
$3.70 phone goes on sale
Freedom 251 is being touted as "suspect" by some
A while back we ran a yarn about an Indian company which was bringing out a $3.70 smartphone. The phone was controversial because some Indian politicans thought it was a scam.
Samsung aiming for 5G
Getting its A into G
After stuffing up its bets on wireless technology standards in the past, Samsung was to be in the global top-three player in 5G mobile networks.
Samsung makes 95 per cent of OLED market
While the rest of the world is talking about OLED displays, it seems that 95 per cent of the displays made by Samsung.
Asus teases new Nvidia mystery mobile GPU
Faster than GTX Titan X in 3DMark 11
Asus has dropped a bomb ahead of the Computex 2016 by teasing Nvidia's upcoming mobile Geforce GPU which is actually faster than desktop GTX Titan X.
Intel goes atomic over low-powered chips
Ironically a week after killing two Atom chips
Just a week after killing off two generations of Atom mobile chips, Chipzilla has teamed up with a French atomic energy lab to look at future low-power mobile technologies.
Qualcomm defector claims Intel is better placed for IoT
Chipzilla paid him $25 million so he should say that
The bloke who Intel paid $25 million last year to leave Qualcomm claims that Chipzilla is in a strong position to take control of the internet of things.
Apple shares in free fall
Investors wake up
Apple shares are continuing to fall as more investors realise that the share price is not going to go up any more.
Quip aims to renew cross-platform document collaboration
An efficient yet notable editing suite based on Google's Protocol Buffers
In 2013, two bright individuals in Silicon Valley put their intuitions together and brainstormed some ideas to address the growing need for on-the-go document collaboration between mobile groups of coworkers and acquaintances. A few cross-platform services like Evernote appealed to While a few market leaders had already developed some novel open-source and proprietary methods in the past, they were often too expensive on one hand, or didn't offer real-time communication on the other.