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Sony is reportedly investing up to $1.2 billion to expand its image sensor production. The electronics giant is expected to buy back a semiconductor line from Toshiba. The Nagasaki Technology Center was originally owned by Sony, who sold most of the production line to Toshiba in 2008 for ¥90 billion ($830 million).The fab was operated…
Every year, IBM surveys its 3,000 researchers and asks them what they think will be the dominant new technologies in the next five years. These predictions are usually reasonable in scope and not wild, science fiction-based fantasies. One such prediction from 2010 points to the development of holographic mobile phone conversations. This technology would be…
The HTC 7 Pro was spotted on O2 Germany’s website with a tentative availability date of January. This January launch date fits in nicely with previous information that pointed to an early 2011 European launch. With its wide landscape keyboard and sleek design, the 7 Pro should be a big hit in Europe . Under the…
A brazen would-be robber was foiled when the folks he was attempting to rob pulled out knives in retaliation. According to the police report, Jerome Taylor, donned a mask and entered the Northern Indian Restaurant in New London, Connecticut. He pulled out what appeared to be a gun and demanded money from the cooks who…
The T-Mobile 4G hotspot has made its way through the FCC, bringing the device one step closer to official status. The FCC documentation details a ZTE-made device with “T-Mobile 4G Mobile Hotspot” branding clearly on the label. The ZTE MF61 has an oval shape reminiscent of the AT&T mobile hotspot manufactured by Novatel. If it…
Here is an enjoyable video for all you Foursquare and Facebook fans this Christmas morning. The folks from Excentric, a Portuguese digital marketing company, put together a video detailing the birth of Jesus from a modern day outlook. The group did not re-write the story, but told it from the perspective of a technophile and…
Invitations are going out for a Sony Ericsson event that will introduce “the new members of the Xperia family” on February 13th in Barcelona. The invite does not provide any clues about the handsets slated to be unveiled, but we do recall that Sony Ericsson has committed itself to being the top Android handset manufacturer…
A leaked treatment from an in-production Dell television commercial paints a brief, but exciting picture of the rumored Dell Streak 7. The graphical outline suggests the 7-inch Android tablet from Dell will keep both the Streak branding and the naming convention of the original Dell Streak 5. The 7-inch tablet will also include a Gorilla…
Apple recently updated its Remote App to include AirPlay support, playback control of rented content and more. The Remote app lets you control iTunes or an Apple TV using your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. For Apple TV users, the app lets you use a touch-based keyboard to enter text which is so much easier…
The past year has been a rocky one for Palm and its webOS operating system. After a last ditch effort to save its struggling handset business with the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi, the Sunnyvale company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. This acquisition by HP slowed down development and Palm was only able to roll…