Chipmakers hope for iPad 2 boost March 16, 2011 The iPad 2 was released just days ago but some users have already torn it open to see what is inside. The results have proved a bonus for manufacturers and chipmakers whose shares have been hit by fears the earthquake in Japan would disrupt supply chains and result in fewer sales. Imagination Technologies saw its [...]
FIRST LOOK AT THE IPAD 2 March 2, 2011 The iPad 2 is better, faster, slicker. Rivals hoping to muscle in may as well pack up and go home – if you want a tablet, nothing comes close to this. LAST night I got my hands on one of the first iPad 2s in the country. Steve Jobs, looking positively healthy for a man [...]
WHAT’S NEW IN GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGY February 23, 2011 SONY LAUNCHES NEW VAIO RANGE Sony unveiled its new range of Vaio laptops this week, including the strikingly-coloured C Series. Available in luminous orange, green and pink, it features light emitting technology that makes your laptop look like it’s glowing. For the more demure consumer, you can also grab it in black or white, and [...]
CSR snaps up Zoran in deal worth £420m February 21, 2011 BRITISH chipmaker CSR has agreed to buy US-listed Zoran Corporation in an all-share deal to add imaging and video to its wi-fi, bluetooth and GPS location technologies. CSR’s chief executive Joep van Beurden said the $679m (£420m) deal would enable CSR to target the growing number of devices that combine imaging and video with wireless [...]
The five tech trends set to change your world in 2011 February 17, 2011 MOBILE World Congress (MWC), the world’s biggest mobile phone show, ended yesterday. Here City A.M., looks at the biggest trends to emerge from the show and looks at how they could affect your life over the next year. THE SHADOW OF NOKIA/MICROSOFT THE bombshell dropped by Nokia the weekend before MWC kicked off, when the [...]
Nokia chief Elop comes out fighting February 16, 2011 NOKIA boss Stephen Elop took to the stage for his keynote speech at Mobile World Congress yesterday with calls for his resignation ringing in his ears. A group of shareholders, all former Nokia employees who are dismayed by his decision to ditch the Symbian operating system in favour of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (WP7), issued [...]
New devices give shot in ARM February 16, 2011 UK CHIP maker ARM was one of the big winners from this year’s Mobile World Congress, with its royalties set to rocket from the uptake of its processors powering many of the new devices on show. It receives up to two per cent of the selling price for its Cortex designs, against nearer one per [...]
Smartphone sales rocket as Apple bites February 9, 2011 GLOBAL smartphone sales grew an astonishing 72 per cent, with next-generation handsets now making up almost a fifth of receipts, according to new research by Gartner. BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) and Apple crept ahead of industry stalwarts Sony Ericsson and Motorola in total phone sales, with both claiming close to three per cent of [...]
Pocket camcorders February 9, 2011 PUT it down to the rise of the video blogger, the omnipotence of YouTube or the influence of mobile phones and digital cameras with video options, but the game has changed when it comes to recording moving images. Everyone’s a filmmaker these days, and you don’t need mini-DV to do it. A couple of years [...]
Wolfson continues recovery February 8, 2011 Wolfson Microelectronics continued to recover in the fourth quarter as its chips were designed into more products in the fast-growing smartphone, gaming and ebook sectors. Wolfson, whose chips are in Samsung’s Galaxy S smartphone and Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, reported underlying operating profit of $1.3m (£800,000), against a $4.3m loss a year ago, on revenue [...]