Hon Hai, which supplies iPhone products to Apple, said its net profits rose by 11 percent for its financial third quarter.
And revenues rose by 12 percent, largely as a result of increased manufacturing of iPhone during the quarter.
Hon Hai, also known as Foxconn, is an original design manufacturer (ODM) not just for Apple, but for smartphones, servers and computers.… Read the rest
Dell said that it has introduced systems intended to make high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics suitable for mainstream adoption.
The HPC System Portfolio includes machines which easy to configure and design, domain specific designs tuned by Dell engineers and aimed at scientific, engineering and analytics, and full validated systems.… Read the rest
Tsinghua Unigroup, a conglomerate backed by the Chinese government, is to plunge $47 billion into the semiconductor business in the next five years.
That’s according to Reuters, which interviewed Tsinghua chairman Zhao Weiguo, who said China wants to become the third biggest semiconductor manufacturer in the world.… Read the rest
Personal and entry level storage shipments fell 13.4 percent in the third quarter, according to a survey by IDC.
And shipment values fell by 19.8 percent in the quarter, compared to the same quarter in 2014, amounting to $1.3 billion.
IDC differentiates between personal storage and entry level storage, and said personal storage accounts for over 98 ercent of the market.… Read the rest
Privacy advocates are warning of a new style of advertising which uses James Bond technology to monitor users habits.
The adverts apparently use inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person’s online behaviour across a range of devices, including phones, TVs, tablets, and computers.… Read the rest
Boffins in Huawei research and development subsidiary Watt Labs have developed a smartphone battery that can be recharged to half its capacity in just five minutes.
The company said that the battery uses the same lithium ion chemistry used in mobilephone batteries today but gets its advantage from atoms of graphite bonded to the anode.… Read the rest
A Chinese website has leaked details about Intel’s Broadwell one of which will be a 10-core CPU with Hyper Threading support.
According to Xfastest there will be four new processors under the new High-End Desktop (HEDT) banner for Broadwell, which is one more SKU than Haswell-E.… Read the rest
The Dutch Supreme Court has referred a landmark case against the file-sharing website Pirate Bay to the European Court of Justice.
It is a move that could lead to a precedent in efforts to curtail the sharing of copyrighted movies and music online.… Read the rest
Social media giant Facebook released a report on government requests for the first half of this year.
The report includes different government requests for data, as well as content it blocks in different countries that break local laws.
The company said there’s an increase in content restrictions and government requests for data.… Read the rest
Russian search engine Yandex wants the European Union to force Google to unbundle search on Android devices.
According to Bloomberg, the Amsterdam company successfully forced an antitrust ruling against Google in Russia, but now wants to the EU to follow that ruling.… Read the rest