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Windows 8 on ARM officially detailed by Microsoft
Coming with full Office apps 10 February 2012 9:41 GMT TweetWe all knew that Windows 8 would be ARM compatible but up until now the details of exactly what the move might entail have been sketchy.
Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky has now come clean with all the official details, solving a few mysteries and...
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Qualcomm voice over LTE test hints at a complete 4G future
LTE to WCDMA mid-call 2 February 2012 15:56 GMT TweetNow, stick with us, because this might sound like the most technical opening to a news story in the history of Pocket-lint but it is a pretty big deal in the evolution of mobile phones: Qualcomm, working alongside Ericsson, has successfully completed...
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Koobe Mirasol ereader adds colour to Taiwan
Qualcomm powered page-turner 31 January 2012 12:05 GMT TweetMirasol colour ereaders are like buses. You wait around ages for one and then two come along one after the other. Hot on the heels of the Kyobo eReader, we now have another Asian entrant by way of the Koobe Jin Yong Reader, which has been announced...
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Sesame Street Bert and Ernie Augmented Reality toys takes play interactive
CES 2012: Teams with Qualcomm 16 January 2012 14:32 GMT TweetQualcomm has demoed a new augmented reality toy with Sesame Street that allows you to re-create Bert and Ernie's living room or bathroom despite the rooms not even existing.
The new technology, demoed by the company at CES in Las Vegas, follows...
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The Augmented Reality adverts that are leaping off the page
CES 2012: Interactive 12 January 2012 16:39 GMT TweetQualcomm, alongside augmented reality experts Vuforia, has demoed a series of new AR adverts at CES that continue to show what is possible with the technology and how it plans to change advertising not in the distance future, but right now.
New...
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Kyobo eReader pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Mirasol colour technology arrives 12 January 2012 10:30 GMT TweetThe Qualcomm Mirasol has turned up for a bow in the shape of the Kyobo eReader at CES 2012.
Kyobo is Korea’s leading bookstore and will give owners of the 5.7-inch device access to 90,000 ebooks including the Steve Jobs biography, a month...
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Qualcomm: Snapdragon S4 phones will be better than PS Vita
CES 2012: Handheld DOA? 11 January 2012 16:02 GMT TweetQualcomm has told Pocket-lint that its new Snapdragon S4 processor that is working its way into mobile handsets due out in the coming months will be able to create games graphics as good as, if not better than, the soon to be released dedicated handheld...
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Qualcomm demos Windows 8 on Snapdragon, ready to take the fight to Intel
CES 2012: Chip battle 11 January 2012 15:37 GMT TweetQualcomm has demoed, for the first time, a Windows 8 tablet running on the company's new Snapdragon S4 processor highlighting a future world where your computer doesn't just run on computers powered by Intel or AMD.
Showcasing the new capabilities...
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Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize looks for Star Trek health tech now
CES 2012: Self-diagnostics 11 January 2012 2:34 GMT TweetQualcomm has teamed up with the X Prize foundation to launch a competition to design a working Tricorder-like device, as found in the popular TV show Star Trek. This is looking to happen within the next 3.5 years.
"There is a dire need to improve...
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Lenovo X1 Hybrid pictures and hands-on
HANDS-ON CES 2012: Dual OS 9 January 2012 4:47 GMT TweetLenovo announced just before the start of CES that it would show off the Hybrid X1 laptop and Pocket-lint has just finished playing with the new laptop that has a spilt personality.
On the surface, the Hybrid X1 looks like any ordinary Windows...
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CES 2012 preview: we're here
FEATURE The gadgets to look forward to 8 January 2012 15:32 GMT TweetThe International CES 2012 is now upon us and Pocket-lint is on the ground in Las Vegas, ready and poised to bring you all the action as it happens. But what will be at the biggest consumer electronics trade show this year to get us all excited about...
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AT&T set for 4G boost after $1.9 billion Qualcomm deal
Agreed by FCC 23 December 2011 12:19 GMT TweetIt has been an expensive week for AT&T. Not only did the telecom giant have to fork out $4 billion after its T-Mobile takeover was cancelled, it has now handed almost $2 billion over to Qualcomm to purchase the lower 700 MHz D and E block (channel...
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Qualcomm dials in Glonass for 'dual-core' mobile locating
Don't rely on GPS... 16 December 2011 16:02 GMT TweetQualcomm has announced support for Glonass in its latest Snapdragon processors, meaning that mobiles packing the S2 and S3 chips will have a location accuracy of just 2 metres (and the S4 when it lands next year).
Glonass, in case you didn't...
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Mirasol colour ereader finally turns the page
Korean launch for Qualcomm powered Kyobo device 22 November 2011 10:44 GMT TweetThe Qualcomm Mirasol colour ereader is finally a reality - in South Korea that is - where the Kyobo e-Reader has just been announced.
Kyobo is Korea’s leading bookstore and will give owners of the 5.7-inch device access to 90,000 ebooks...
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Speedier 4G LTE iPhone incoming thanks to new Qualcomm chips
Improves power efficiency 17 November 2011 8:45 GMT TweetiPhone and iPads may finally be getting 4G LTE support thanks to Qualcomm and its new chips, which will make for a far more power efficient device and won't compromise Apple's iPhone design. It should also bring speed boosts in surfing and web downloads.
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