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Qualcomm touts VR, efficiency improvements in new Snapdragon 835 chip
Two months after Qualcomm Technologies Inc. unveiled the next iteration of its flagship Snapdragon system-on-chip, the official specifications have been released, promising better battery life and virtual-reality experiences. The Snapdragon 835 is described as a processing powerhouse packing 3 billion transistors made using Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s 10-nanometer fabrication technology. It’s comprised of a Kryo ...
DJI Robotics taps Seagate to develop data storage for its drones
A commercial-grade drone such as DJI Robotics Inc.’s recently introduced Inspire 2 model can generate 120 gigabytes of footage during a 25-minute flight, which requires a lot of on-board storage to accommodate. Hard drive maker Seagate Technology plc has taken it upon itself to meet the demand. Seagate today launched a product collaboration with DJI that ...
Intel plans to buy 15 percent stake in mapping tech provider HERE
Over the course of the past week, the number of stakeholders in buzzed-about Geran mapping provider HERE has doubled from three to six, but now there’s yet another investor. Intel Corp. today disclosed plans to buy a stake in HERE to the Federal Cartel Office, Germany’s equivalent of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The document didn’t ...
Private equity firm buys IT automation provider LANDesk for $1.1B
The workers at Salt Lake City-based LANDesk Software Inc. can expect a lot of changes going into 2017. Clearlake Capital Group L.P., a private equity firm with about $3 billion in assets under management, today acquired the IT management provider from Thoma Bravo LLC. The Wall Street Journal cited anonymous insiders as saying that the deal ...
Dell’s new XPS 13 two-in-one promises a hybrid experience
Although the Consumer Electronics Show doesn’t officially kick off until Thursday, hardware makers are already starting to unveil the new products that they’ll be demonstrating at the event. Dell became one of the first to join the fray today, pulling back the curtain on a new two-in-one configuration of its XPS 13 laptop. Introduced during ...
MobileEye and HERE join forces to help autonomous vehicles drive better
If autonomous vehicles are ever to hit the roads en masse, they’ll require the ability to accurately recognize all the different landmarks and environmental factors that influence driving. The technology isn’t quite there yet, but Mobileye N.V. and HERE believe that they can bring the auto industry a lot closer. The companies today launched a ...
Amazon Web Services’ WorkMail gets support for Outlook, other email clients
Not even the holiday season can slow down Amazon.com Inc.’s aggressive feature development roadmap, as the company Wednesday rolled out support for the IMAP data transfer protocol to AWS WorkMail. The addition to its cloud-based email and calendar service will enable users to view their messages through a wide range of popular email clients. The list ...
Qualcomm fined $854M by South Korean antitrust regulators
A year after getting hit with a $975 million antitrust fine in China, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is once again on the hook over its business practices. The Korea Fair Trade Commission today ordered the chip maker to pay $854 million for what it has deemed to be anticompetitive behavior in the mobile processor market. Qualcomm, which ...
HERE adds three big Asian investors to jumpstart China expansion
The rapid rise of smart vehicles is driving a lot of investor interest in the tech companies that are helping the auto industry build out its digital capabilities. One name that has been coming up particularly often lately is mapping provider HERE, a former Nokia Corp. subsidiary that was acquired by a group of German car ...
Salesforce backs $7.5M round into fleet management startup Automile
The massive amount of administrative work involved in managing a company’s vehicle fleet can be overwhelming even for the most well-staffed operations department. But according to Automile Inc., it doesn’t have to be. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based offers a service that promises to reduce the load on logistics personnel using real-time sensory data from the ...