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  • Qualcomm eyes budget smarphones with expanded Snapdragon 200 lineup

    Qualcomm announced six additions to its Snapdragon 200 processor lineup on Thursday for the budget smartphone market. Qualcomm's six new processor chips for low-end smartphones will include both dual-core and quad-core variants fabbed on the firm's 28nm semiconductor technology. Each Snapdragon 200 processor will boast built-in HSPA+ technology, Qualcomm said, and will support up to ...

  • Microsoft offers a $100000 bug bounty for cracking Windows 8.1

    Microsoft will offer a reward of $100,000 for the first security researcher to crack Windows 8.1 as part of a bug bounty programme. Launching on 26 June, the Redmond firm's "Mitigation Bypass Bounty" will pay anyone $100,000 that provides Microsoft with "truly novel exploitation techniques" against protections built into the latest version of its operating system, ...

  • LGs next flagship smartphone will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU

    LG has announced that it will partner with Qualcomm for its next generation flagship smartphone that it plans to release in the third quarter. LG and Qualcomm have enjoyed a close relationship for a while, and that looks set to ...

  • Nokia hints at 41MP cameraphone announcement on 11 July

    Nokia has posted a teaser image on its blog promising "41 million reasons" for readers to tune in to next month's event, which will be live streamed on its website. Unless Nokia has managed to stuff the upcoming smartphone with 41 million new features, we suspect that this is a clear hint about a 41MP cameraphone. Nokia hasn't said much else on the matter, although last week ...

  • Martin Murphy interview Second level has to give skills needed to start work

    They would be wrong of course. Very wrong. With offices in Kildare, Galway and Belfast, HP employs more than 4,000 people on this island.And Martin Murphy is the man in charge.The 50-year-old took over the top job more than 11 years ago, and now runs a firm that is one of the biggest employers in the country.It isn't all plain sailing, however. HP has, like most computer firms, been caught ...


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21 [Blu-Ray]

21 [Blu-Ray]

Although based on real events as recounted in novelist Ben Mezrichs first nonfiction book Bringing Down the House, the story in 21 has been carefully molded into a nearly perfect specimen of by-the-numbers three-act moviemaking. It takes the basic scenario from Mezrichs book--a group of MIT ... ...

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  • Renewable energy fund Solar 21 to double staff here

    The new jobs will double the company's staff in Ireland. The solar power investment business was established four years ago and now employs 21 people in this country, in addition to employees in Germany and Italy who manage its solar farms. It is based in Rathcoole in Dublin.The company has a fund worth close to EUR150m invested in solar farms across Europe, which pays out an 8.5pc annual ...

  • DIT students fly the flag in Hong Kong

    A GROUP of DIT students are travelling to Hong Kong to showcase their new anti-contamination product at a global competition for student ...

  • What is forcing Indian mobile app developers to change biz models

    HYDERABAD: Soaring sales of mobile phones and their rising prominence as personal entertainment devices are forcing game developers in India to change tacks and shift the focus of their business models away from the personal computer. Gamers switching to mobiles are buying fewer games for their PC, hitting developers hard. Also, the fact that most games on offer through applications for mobiles ...

  • How Silicon Valley makes money from online snooping

    Silicon Valley company. Instead the man who was responsible for protecting the personal information of Facebook's more than 1 billion users from outside attacks went to work for another giant institution that manages and analyzes large pools of data: the National Security Agency. Kelly's move to the spy agency underscores the increasingly deep connections between Silicon Valley and the ...

  • Nokia ‘confirms’ Lumia phone with 41MP camera

    On the Nokia Conversations website, the company has put up a teaser that says there will be ';41 million reasons'; to attend the July 11 ...

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