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Samsung's Android tablet/smartphone hybrid will debut in mid-February

31.01.2012 20:20 AT T says it will begin pre-sales of Samsung's Galaxy Note mini-tablet/smartphone on Feb. 17 for $300 plus contract. To be hyped during the Super Bowl via video shot on its own eight megapixel camera, the Android 2.3-based gadget features a 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED display, a 1.5GHz, dual-core processor, and a stylus....

Linux-based home energy gateway supports ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0

31.01.2012 18:46 Digi International announced a ZigBee-based home energy gateway that runs Linux on a Freescale i.MX28 processor. Compliant with the upcoming Smart Energy 2.0 standard, the ConnectPort X2e for Smart Energyenables ZigBee devices on a Home Area Network to communicate with an energy service provider, says the company....

Tilera ships 36- and 16-core RISC processors

31.01.2012 17:52 Tilera announced the general availability of its RISC-based 36-core Tile-Gx36 and 16-core Tile-Gx16 system on chips , clocked up to 1.5GHz. The Tile-Gx36 delivers more than 40Gbps of L2/L3 packet forwarding performance while using 25 Watts, and both it and the Tile-Gx16 are supported with Linux-ready PCI Express evaluation systems, the company says....

Samsung spins another S phone, and Motorola announces unlocked Razr

30.01.2012 22:57 Samsung announced a 1GHz Galaxy S Advancephone running Android 2.3 on a dual-core 1GHz processor and featuring a four-inch Super-AMOLED screen -- slated for Russia in February. Meanwhile, Motorola announced a Europe-targeted, unlockable Razr Developer Editionand is preparing a similar Android device for the U.S. in the coming months....

Qseven module sports a TI ARM-plus-DSP chip

30.01.2012 22:53 MSC Vertriebs announced a Qseven module powered by the Texas Instruments C6A8168 chip, which combines a 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A8 core with a 1.5GHz digital signal processor . Designed for demanding image processingapplications, the Q7-TI8168 includes 1GB of DDR3 memory, up to 8GB of flash storage, two SATA ports, six USB ports, and an HDMI/DVI interface, according to the company....

Review: Verizon's LG Spectrum offers speed, long life -- and weird UI customization

30.01.2012 20:17 Verizon's LG Spectrum phone -- equipped with 4G LTE, a great 4.5-inch screen, and a dual-core, 1.5GHz processor -- provides speed and impressive battery life, according to this eWEEK review. However, author Clint Boulton adds, the touchscreen was sometimes unresponsive, and the customizations LG has layered on Android 2.3 aren't much of a success....

Embedded PC moves up to Cedar Trail chips

30.01.2012 19:51 Habey announced a fanless embedded PC equipped with Intel's new dual-core Atom N2800 or D2700 Cedar Trailprocessors and up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM. The BIS-6630 features an SATA bay and dual Mini PCI Express slots, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, six USB 2.0 ports, dual serial ports, and both VGA and DVI-D video ports, the company says....

It's a new Android Trojan -- or at least 'aggressive advertising'

30.01.2012 19:34 Symantec has warned of a new Trojan horsecalled Android.Counterclank, which attaches to applications in the Android Market and may be used to run malicious code on users' smartphones and tablets. Taking a slightly different view, Lookout Mobile Security says Counterclank is merely an aggressive form of ad networkbut nonethless should be taken seriously....

Open source Linux tablet showcases KDE Plasma Active technology

30.01.2012 18:44 Members of the KDE Plasma Active community announced an open source tablet platform that runs the mobile-oriented version of KDE's Plasma UI layer on a MeeGo Linux-based Meroperating system. The seven-inch Sparktablet features a 1GHz AMLogic ARM Cortex-A9 processor with a Mali-400 GPU, offers 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage, an SD slot, and a projected price of about 200 Euros ....

ZTE Android tablets popping up everywhere

27.01.2012 23:06 ZTE is readying a number of seven-inch Android tablets, starting with a dual-core, Android 3.2-based ZTE Optik tablet heading for Sprint Feb. 5 and a similar, but 4G LTE-equipped V66 tablet headed for Verizon, reports say. Meanwhile, a seven-inch ZTE V9A Light Tab 2 just went on pre-order in the U.K, and we're still waiting for two tablets ZTE showed at the Consumer Electronics Show: a seven-inch T72 tablet and quad-core T98....

America's first 'WhiteFi' network goes live

27.01.2012 23:03 America's first public WhiteFinetwork, leveraging spectrum previously occupied by analog TV channels, has been launched in North Carolina. Running at 1.5 to 3.1 MB/sec., the service will initially be used mostly for municipal functions such as surveillance cameras and transmitting water quality data, according to reports....

Android smartphones down, tablets up, say reports

27.01.2012 19:01 Some 37 million Apple iPhones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter, besting Samsung's 33 million shipments and reducing Android's share to 47 percent, says ABI Research, echoed by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech and Good Technology. Meanwhile, Android tablets surged to 39 percent share worldwide in Q4 2011, but still trail Apple's 58 percent iPad share, says Strategy Analytics....

KDE 4.8 adds adaptive power management, new windowing tricks

26.01.2012 23:58 The KDE community announced version 4.8 of its desktop environment and software bundle for Linux, featuring improved, adaptive power management and new windowing functions. KDE 4.8 is faster and more stable, and offers new features like Qt Quick-based Plasma widgets and the KDE Telepathy real-time communication and collaboration framework, says the community....

Cortex-A8 evaluation module gets higher-quality camera

26.01.2012 23:57 E-con Systems has announced a five megapixel camera add-on designed to work with the Texas Instruments OMAP3530 or DM3730 evaluation modules . The e-CAM52_35x snaps onto the EVM boards and connects to the high-speed CMOS sensor interface on TI's DM37xx or Sitara AM37xx processors, providing five megapixel video capture as well as stills, the company says....

Ubuntu 12.10 to debut menu-free search interface

26.01.2012 23:52 Canonical unveiled an search-oriented Head-Up Display interface that will debut in April's Ubuntu 12.04 . Aiming to reduce dependence on menus and eventually replace them with the help of gesture and voice interactions, HUD could find its way into future versions of Ubuntu designed for smartphones and tablets, as well as the recently announced Ubuntu TV platform....