Thursday, April 12, 2012

Intel's 'Centerton' is first Atom chip for servers Chip giant will launch a special Atom chip for servers to take on its nemesis ARM.

Intel announced its first Atom chip for microservers at a major company confab in Beijing today.

The new Atom, codenamed Centerton, is a system-on-a-chip, which makes it even more power efficient than less-integrated older Atom chips.

Centerton's power envelope -- what the industry sometimes calls

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

U.S. Carriers Working On Centralized Database To Track Stolen Mobile Phones


The Wall Street Journal carries a report on the major four U.S. carriers working with the government to build a central database of stolen or lost mobile phones. This database would then be used by the authorities to disable and locate these mobile phones.

The government's intention is to reduce mobile phone thefts by denying lost or stolen phones voice and data services, making it hard to resell. Presently only two of the four major carriers, Verizon and Sprint, have such mechanisms in place. AT&T and T-Mobile are expected to join these two carriers by setting up similar facilities very soon.

From the WSJ article:

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iPhone 5 Reports Suggest 4-Inch Screen Next iPhone will see a significant hardware revision, analyst predicts. Meanwhile, T-Mobile seeks to lure in owners of old, unlocked iPhones.


Analyst Brian White with Topeka Capital Markets predicted in a note to investors Monday that the next iPhone, perhaps to be named the iPhone 5, will have a larger, 4-inch display and a brand new design. The design will be sleek and made from unibody construction. It'll resemble exactly what everyone expected to see from Apple last fall, instead of the iPhone 4S.

According to White,

Sorry, iPhone! China's smartphone users choose Android

 
(ZDNET) Google's Android mobile operating system was China's most popular platform in 2011, with its market share ballooning by 35 percent in the space of less than a year.

Beijing-based research analytics firm Analysys International said by the end of 2011, Android had 68 percent of the smartphone operating system market, a figure up from 33 percent only three quarters before,