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Another Potential Suitor For RIM As Lenovo Ponders An Acquisition

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Research In Motion is once again the target of a rumored acquisition. Lenovo’s CFO Wang Wai Ming said in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that the Beijing company is eying the BlackBerry maker as a potential acquisition target or strategic alliance partner. The news comes less than a week after RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told German newspaper Die Welt that RIM is still undergoing a strategic…

“League Of Legends,” The Most-Played PC Game In The World, Runs On The Same Open Hardware As Facebook

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS League of Legends is the most-played, multi-player PC game in the world, with gamers logging nearly 1.3 billion hours of play time. The Riot Games title has more hours logged than World of Warcraft and Minecraft. With that kind of scale, Riot Games faced some challenges that any company experiences when they have that kind of load in its data center. Electricity costs, server capacity and a host of other issues emerged. Riot Games saw in…

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University of Michigan makes silicon from liquid metal, aims for low-cost chips Alt

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As reported on Engadget. by Jon Fingas Forming silicon normally requires extreme temperatures of more than 2,000F, with the expensive energy to match. The University of Michigan has developed a technique involving liquid metal that could shed most of the heat — and cost. By coating a liquid gallium electrode with silicon tetrachloride, researchers can generate pure silicon crystals through the gallium’s electrons at a comparatively cool 180F. While the crystals are currently small, bigger examples are at least…

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Amazon’s Cloud Drive Photos for Android gets auto-save feature, additional functionality Mobile

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez Despite being a little too busy scooping up companies and striking new streaming deals, Amazon hasn’t exactly been overlooking its set of mobile and desktop applications. Most recently, the online retail behemoth announced a refresh was on hand for Cloud Drive Photos on Android, providing users of said app with an auto-save option that, as you likely guessed, allows pics to be automatically uploaded to ones cloud account — this, according to Amazon, was “the most…

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Apple drops supplier over underage labor violations, hails ‘high compliance’ with reducing excessive work hours

By admin | January 25, 2013 by admin

As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith Apple’s latest Supplier Responsibility Report has just been published, detailing 393 audits focused on the plants and suppliers that help make all that hardware. The audit number is a 72 percent increase in what it covered in its last annual report, whileApple was also quick to highlight its contracting companies’ high compliance (92 percent) with a maximum 60-hour work week. Senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams told Reuters that underage workers and limiting working hours…

Another Potential Suitor For RIM As Lenovo Ponders An Acquisition

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