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Clearwire lays out its case for a Sprint buyout
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on May 6, 2013
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Fisker reportedly lays off 75% of workforce
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on April 7, 2013
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Fisker, the automotive company that has been selling its hybrid-powered Karma vehicle for over a year now, is reported to be laying off 160 employees, which is approximately 75% of the entire company’s staff. Rumors were flying around earlier this morning, but it appears to be a done deal, and this could spell the end
Cisco lays off 734, or 1% of workforce
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on March 28, 2013
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Cisco this week reduced its workforce by about 1% — or 734 people – as the company realigns to face the advent of software-defined networking, cloud computing and its impact on routing and switching.
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Leap Motion’s Michael Buckwald Lays Out His Vision For Gesture-Based Computer Interaction
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on March 13, 2013
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While I was at South by Southwest Interactive, I had a chance to meet with the Leap Motion team and try out their upcoming gesture-based controller. We’ve been writing about the comapny for a while now, but this was a chance to see the technology in-person, and to use it with existing apps.
Thankfully, my own feeble attempts to play Cut The Rope using the Leap Motion Controller weren’t recorded on camera, but we did film a short demo by Vice President of Product Marketing Michael Zagorsek. He showed off a 3D visualizer that helps developers understand the controller’s capabilities, then played Fruit Ninja using a chopstick, and finally used the controller to sculpt a digital clay.
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PCs of the near-future: Intel lays out next-gen plans
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on January 7, 2013
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Intel’s press conference at CES 2013 showed us what the future will hold for later this year, showing Haswell, table-top computing, and perceptual computing. [Read more]
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AMD Closes OSRC, Lays Off Several Linux Kernel Developers
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on November 7, 2012
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From the H reporting on LinuxCon Europe comes news that several Linux kernel developers have been laid off by AMD as part of its workforce reduction. From the article: “OSRC staff primarily worked to develop the Linux support for AMD’s server processors, but they also wrote code and extensions for related desktop and notebook CPUs – for example, they looked after the code to support CPU frequency scaling for the PowerNow and Turbo Core technologies. While working on the kernel’s IOMMU and KVM support, one of AMD’s former employees contributed to the development of the “IOMMU groups” feature that was integrated into Linux 3.6; this feature provides the basis for a new Linux 3.6 technology that allows a host’s PCIe devices to be passed through to virtual machines and can also be used with Intel CPUs.”
Looks like the group was doing interesting research on hypervisors, lockless data structures, and multi-core synchronization primitives among other things. The Open Source Radeon driver developers are not affected by this at least.
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Zynga lays off workers, closes Boston studio
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on October 24, 2012
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Zynga is cutting about 5 percent of its workforce, and is "sunsetting" 13 of its older games, the company's founder and CEO Mark Pincus said Tuesday in a note to employees.
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Ericsson lays groundwork for calls from mobile browsers with Bowser
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on October 20, 2012
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Ericsson has launched the world's first WebRTC-compatible browser for mobile devices, which will allow developers to integrate voice and video communications in their Web-based applications.
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FCC chief lays out plans to boost mobile carriers' spectrum
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on October 5, 2012
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FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski detailed plans on Thursday to free up more wireless spectrum that carriers say they need to offer high-speed mobile services.
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Endangered turtle lays eggs in Florida hospital
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on September 4, 2012
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Europe Lays Out Proposals For Wireless Spectrum Sharing Amongst Fiercely Competitive Carriers
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on September 3, 2012
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Carriers are fiercely competitive, but swallowing their territorial tendencies, several around Europe have started teaming up to share mobile spectrum and other resources in the ongoing race to serve hungry mobile consumers with data for their apps, video chats and film streams — expected soon to top 1 trillion megabytes of data per month. Today the EU took a step towards formalizing that, with the introduction of a proposal for spectrum sharing.
Announced by Neelie Kroes, VP for the European Commission, the proposal “is an essential part of the solution to dealing with the wireless crunch… by using new technical possibilities to create a secondary market for spectrum rights.”
Ubuntu Lays Plans For Getting Past UEFI SecureBoot
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on June 22, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Canonical has laid out their plans for handling UEFI SecureBoot on Ubuntu Linux. Similar to Red Hat paying Microsoft to get past UEFI restrictions, Canonical does have a private UEFI key. Beyond that they will also be switching from GRUB to the more liberal efilinux bootloader, and only require bootloader binaries be signed — and they want to setup their own signing infrastructure separate from Microsoft.”
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Aussie Telco Lays New Fiber For Microsecond Trading Boost
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on June 15, 2012
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schliz writes “Australian data center and telecommunications provider Vocus has installed two new underwater fiber links across the Sydney Harbor in a bid for the lowest connection latency between the city’s financial district and the Australian Securities Exchange’s recently opened data center, north of the CBD. The project involved 1.6 kilometers of custom, 312-core single-mode optical fiber cable, and was expected to deliver a route that is 400 meters shorter than existing links. RTFA for pretty installation photos.”
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Layar lays the AR on thick with worldwide Stiktu app rollout
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on June 13, 2012
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Layar’s no stranger to the AR game. The company’s been acting as an enabler of sorts, putting its Player and Creator dev tools into the hands of the masses across iOS and Android for some time. Now, the outfit’s making Stiktu — a social app that attaches augmented reality tags on everyday objects — available outside of its previously defined European borders for worldwide consumption. Users who download the platform will be able to set virtual drawings, images or text to objects and leave those invisible markers behind for other curious parties to scan and discover. The practical applications aren’t exactly obvious, but as a crowd-sourced scavenger hunt, it’ll do just fine. Hit up the source below to download the goods on your platform of choice.
Layar lays the AR on thick with worldwide Stiktu app rollout originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NHK lays out Olympic broadcast plans, Super Hi-Vision test viewing locations in Japan
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on June 9, 2012
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We’ve already run down Olympic broadcast plans in the US and UK, and now Japanese broadcaster NHK has unveiled some information. Similar to the others there is not only the TV production including data about ongoing competition, but also an online component complete with live video access on mobile devices, but also support for the acTVila video on-demand portal. The other notable information is that it’s locked down locations and details for those trial Super Hi-Vision broadcasts, listing four spots where people can get their eyes on some sweet 8K UHDTV action. While most of them will be displayed by projectors, including a 520-inch screen in Shibuya, while Akihabara’s Studio Park will feature a 360-inch LCD. The details for UK and US are a bit more vague, but if we have to track where in Washington D.C. NBC is letting the 33MP resolution video and 22.2ch sound out for a trial just by its scent, then that’s what we’ll have to do.
NHK lays out Olympic broadcast plans, Super Hi-Vision test viewing locations in Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NBC lays out 2012 London Olympics broadcast plan on TV, internet, apps and in 3D (video)
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on May 27, 2012
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Love it or hate it, we’re stuck with NBC as our Olympics broadcaster in the US, and the company recently laid out its full plans for the 2012 Olympics in London this summer. The good news first: NBCOlympics.com will live stream every single event (they’ll even be on YouTube, and in the UK the BBC has its own plans) for the first time ever including streams of each of its channels, encompassing 3,500 total hours and the awarding of all 302 medals. The bad news is that if you’re not a cable subscriber, many of those hours will not be available to you, and even if you are, you’re looking at a (likely convoluted) authentication sign-in process. That’s a little bit of pain, sure, but it should mean what we’ve been asking for — the ability to watch all Olympics events as they happen, not tape delayed for prime time after viewing grainy bootleg streams over the internet. Also new for the internet are multiple streams for the same event, so for example, viewers can select a particular gymnastics apparatus or track and field event at will.
On mobile devices, NBC also has plans for two different apps on phones and tablets, with one that brings live video streams and another with highlight clips. It didn’t specify what platforms they would be available for, but we’d assume the usual suspects (iOS, Android) will be first up. On pay-TV cable, satellite and telco providers it’s also providing dedicated channels for basketball and soccer, although it’s up to your provider to pick them up. The same goes for the 242 planned hours of 3D coverage it’s producing in partnership with Panasonic, which will unfortunately air on 24 hour tape delay, just like the HD broadcast was back in 2004 (we’ve got chips…. and salsa!). For the full breakdown of all 5,535 hours of coverage across NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo, Telemundo and everything else check out the press release after the break, plus an Olympics preview trailer. While there are some limits for cord cutters, sports fans with pay-TV should be ready to experience the best Olympics coverage ever with the ability to watch what we want, instead just what’s on the TV schedule.
NBC lays out 2012 London Olympics broadcast plan on TV, internet, apps and in 3D (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 27 May 2012 14:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Avaya lays out roadmap for unified software management
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on May 22, 2012
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As Avaya continues its transition from a hardware company into a communications and collaboration software provider, it is going through some growing pains, including a shakeup of executives and uncertainty around a potential initial public offering that’s been rumored for months.
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Another Loan Guarantee Recipient Lays Off Workers
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on February 29, 2012
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In a tough market for solar panels, Abound Solar is halting production.
Abound Solar, which makes cadmium telluride thin-film solar panels, and had been awarded a $ 400 million conditional loan guarantee by the U.S. Department of Energy, announced yesterday that it is stopping production at its 65-megawatt factory in Colorado and laying off 180 workers.
HP lays off 275 WebOS employees
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on February 29, 2012
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Meg Whitman may have big plans for WebOS, the little mobile operating system that couldn’t, but it looks like whatever she’s planning doesn’t require a large portion of the current WebOS development team. The company has laid off 275 employees in its mobile section. Most of the affected employees are engineers, which makes a lot [...]
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Microsoft lays out Window 8 tablet hardware requirements
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on January 18, 2012
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Windows 8 tablets will have to meet some minimum requirements, according to specifications published by Microsoft.
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Sprint lays out its own 4G path
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on October 7, 2011
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Sprint says its aggressive LTE rollout will be largely wrapped up by 2013.
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Samsung Stratosphere lays it all out with spec sheet treatment
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on October 2, 2011
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The upcoming Samsung Stratosphere for Verizon Wireless is hardly a secret, but other than a few rumored details, the specs for this LTE-equipped QWERTY slider have remained a bit of a mystery. Now, all that has changed, thanks in large part to its leaked spec sheet from Big Red — just take a peek after the break. It’ll be packing a 4-inch Super AMOLED display with WVGA resolution, a (presumably) single-core 1GHz processor, along with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage and a 4GB microSD card that’s pre-installed. Curiously, it’ll be the first of Verizon’s LTE phones to incorporate a Micro SIM in place of the larger, traditional offering. Other than that, it looks as if the speculation of Android 2.3, along with its 5MP rear / 1.3MP front cams were dead on. There will also be an LED flash in tow, although video capture will be limited to a rather mundane 480p. That said, if you’re thirsting for speed but are needing a keyboard, the Stratosphere is looking like your obvious (albeit only) choice.
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Sound Tank lays down the boom
Posted by Gsurface
on September 24, 2011
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In my neck of the woods, there are plenty of cars and trucks that have more watts in stereo gear than the drivers have in brain cells. You know the sort that has more money tied up in wheels and stereo gear than the car is worth even though the paint is falling off the car. An artist named Nik Nowak has taken mobile stereo gear to the next level. Notice I didn’t say automotive stereo gear, Nik didn’t use a car or truck for his stereo.
Nowak took some sort of Japanese mini dumper and turned it into a treaded, speaker clad beast. I can only assume this thing used to be what we in the States would call a backhoe with treads. Nowak took the digging attachment off and replaced it with the speaker box. The vehicle can still move around on its treads and can take the 4,000 watts of boom with it.
The thing has six 12-inch mid-range drivers, and three 18-inch woofers, along with four tweeters. That is a lot of bass for sure and it may have been perfect to get the looters to leave London, assuming the stereo gear off the tank didn’t get looted. The speakers can be raised using the tank hydraulic system. The seat appears to have a mic and some DJ gear along with digital what nots to control the music.
[via GizMag]
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