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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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Microsoft takes mobile computing fight to Apple with SoC architecture
CES 2011: Includes Arm-based systems from major players 6 January 2011 11:29 GMT TweetMicrosoft has officially announced that the next version of Windows will support System on a Chip architectures (wherebye all the components of an electronic device are integrated onto a single chip).
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Texas Instruments DLP Pico HD chipset brings 1080p 3D on the go
CES 2011: TI DLP tech enables full 3D range 5 January 2011 20:00 GMT TweetTexas Instruments has announced, at CES 2010 in Las Vegas, that it will be launching a brand new DLP (Digital Light Processing) Pico HD chipset; bringing the availability of a "new era for on-the-go, big screen video and images".
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Microsoft to use strong-ARM techniques to attack mobile markets
Windows to become compatible with mobile chip architecture 22 December 2010 16:18 GMT TweetMicrosoft will use CES 2011 to launch a version of Windows that can play nicely with ARM architecture mobile chips for the first time.
ARM-based chips are produced by the likes of Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, Sharp and Samsung, and...
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VIDEO: Synaptics Fuse phone interface gets demoed
Would you like your future phones squeezy as well as touchy? 25 January 2010 14:18 GMT TweetThere's been a lot of interest in Synaptics' futuristic "Fuse" interface for touch-based control of smartphones, although figuring out how it works in practice from just text and images isn't that easy.
That's why we've managed to dig out a...
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PHOTOS: Synaptics Fuse phone wants you to squeeze your way around the interface
CES 2010: More ways to interact than you can shake a stick at 8 January 2010 1:14 GMT TweetSynaptics first talked to us about the "Fuse" touchphone concept in December last year, and a month on has now got a working proof of concept to show off at CES in Las Vegas.
We were in the right room at the right time to have a play.
The...
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Advanced Synaptics "Fuse" touchphone concept revealed
Current smartphones have only scratched the surface of mobile touch-based interaction 14 December 2009 17:08 GMT TweetKnown for pushing innovations in human interface solutions, Synaptic's announcement of the Fuse concept mobile phone, developed with global partners Texas Instruments, Immersion, TheAlloy, and The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), hints that the future of touch-based...
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60-inch projectors to compete with 40-inch LCDs next year
Texas Intruments talks DLP 3D for both at home and in the cinema 23 September 2009 18:00 GMT TweetDespite the movie-theatre-in-your-front-room promise of DLP projectors, home cinema has been dominated by LCD TVs ever since the CRT lost its grip. But if 3D TV becomes the cry of the people from next year on, the current leading tech is going to have...
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Next iPhone will charge via micro-USB
Apple signs up to phone charger "harmonization" 29 June 2009 14:45 GMT TweetApple has signed up to an EU-wide "harmonization" of phone chargers, which Pocket-lint first brought you news of back in September 2007.
The iPhone-maker has joined Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung and Texas... -
Acer K10 pico projector available in the UK
Pricing revealed 2 March 2009 12:06 GMT TweetAcer has announced the UK availability of its K10 pico projector. The K10 is the first Acer projector to use LED lamp technology as well as the more usual DLP tech from Texas Instruments.
With a lamp life of 20,000 hours, the K10 weighs... -
PHOTOS: Samsung pico projector phone
MWC 2009: Hands-on with the coming-soon I7410 19 February 2009 10:39 GMT TweetWe brought you news that Samsung's pico projector phone is to get a European launch and here we've got hands-on pics for you of the I7410.
Capable of projecting a 50-inch image, the handset also boasts a 5-megapixel camera, OLED touchscreen... -
Samsung I7410 pico projector phone heading to Europe
MWC 2009: Powered by Texas Instruments 15 February 2009 11:53 GMT TweetSamsung's pico projector phone, first seen at CES in January, is to get a European launch at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The phone, which will be called the I7410 in Europe and the W7900 in Korea will use Texas Instruments pico projector... -
Archos to launch Android-based Internet Media Tablet
Ultra-thin, 5-inch, web browsing, smartphone-slash-media player 9 February 2009 17:09 GMT TweetArchos has announced it is to launch an "ultra-thin Internet Media Tablet combined with a mobile phone" based on both its own and Google's Android operating system.
Android will mean the IMT (as Archos calls it) will get all the "functionalities... -
Texas Instruments slashes 12% of workforce
3400 jobs to go 27 January 2009 11:07 GMT TweetDespite announcing better than expected results for the current quarter, Texas Instruments is to slash 12% of its workforce.
With a fall in demand for the chips it produces, a financial exec for the company told Reuters: "We're preparing... -
WowWee to launch pico projectors at CES
CES 2009: Cinemin range to debut 7 January 2009 10:13 GMT TweetWowWee has announced its newest line of innovations scheduled for release this year.
As well as the company's more usual robotic offerings, it's also introducing a new category of iPod-compatible multimedia pico projectors powered by Texas...
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