Challenge designed to help reduce electronic waste and encourage mobile innovation. Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas, has launched its inaugural Smartphone Encore Challenge in conjunction with Brightstar Corp.,...
Sprint launches Smartphone Encore Challenge
The semiconductor industry in 2015: New nodes and upstart companies fuel a dynamic market
2015 is likely to be a particularly critical year on multiple fronts, for multiple semiconductor companies. There’s a great deal of potential disruption and meaningful product improvements...
Google Launches Open-Source, Cross-Cloud Benchmarking Tool
Google today launched PerfKit, an open-source cloud-benchmarking tool that, in Google’s words, is an “effort to define a canonical set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings.” The...
Why Apple should build its own car
Can Apple build a new car? It’s no more laughable than the idea that Apple, or Radio Shack, could create a personal computer infrastructure in the 1970s...
Time is running out for ethicists to tackle very real robot quandries
By its nature, the Open Roboethics Initiative is easy to dismiss — until you read anything they’ve published. As we head toward a self-driving future in which...
SANDISK’S ULLTRA DIMM DERAILED, COMPANY BANNED FROM SHIPPING HARDWARE TO US
We’ve previously discussed SanDisk’s ULLtra DIMM technology on several occasions. Developed by Diablo Technologies, this approach allows for a large SSD cache to run via a RAM slot...