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Sports fans jump, yell at the top of their voices and though it helps to motivate the supporting team, it generally is the lost energy as far as fans are concerned. But a Japanese stadium is trying to put that waste energy to some good use – by generating power. A football match between J1 [...]

 
Samsung has grabbed another industry’s first title by developing a low-power 4Gb (gigabit) DDR3 RAM using 40nm class process technology. This memory promises to bring significant power savings and double the density as compared to 40nm-based 2Gb DDR3 developed last year. For instance, a 16GB module based on 4Gb saves up to 35 percent power [...]

 
LG Display has announced that its in-cell touch panel is the first such panel to score a Windows 7 Touch Logo Certification. The certification is given to display panels after a series of tests that includes to validate the quality of panels and compatibility with Windows 7 OS.
The product is a 13.3-inch capacitive in-cell multi-touch [...]

 
Mitsubishi’s latest tech will help you to make the full HD content look more in-depth and detailed. This unnamed technology helps to upscale 1080p content to higher resolution of 4K x 2K. However, despite it being able to churn a larger than the current 1080 resolution, the technology does not support Blu-ray upscaling. It only [...]

 
We’ve got few laptops that come with discrete GPUs and a dedicated switch that can be turned on or off as per user’s needs. It’s good to have such a switch since it can help optimizing notebook’s battery life but most notebooks with discrete GPUs are devoid of such a switch, which is why Nvidia [...]

 
To address today’s electronic products’ increasing quantities of internal data transfer, Sony has devised a very short-range wireless transfer communication that will allow manufacturers to replicate the same functions of wired components but save on the cost such electronic components.
This tech is based on millimeter-wave wireless data technology that transmits electromagnetic waves at [...]

 
Intel and Micron’s joint venture, IM Flash Technologies (IMFT) has achieved a major breakthrough by developing the world’s first 25nm-based NAND flash. Using the 25nm process technology, Intel believes the NAND can give consumer electronics manufacturers a way to integrate larger amounts of storage in a cost-effective manner.
Intel and Micron has developed an 8GB [...]

 
Samsung today unveiled industry’s first DDR3 RAM using the 30nm-class process technology. The 2 gigabit (Gb) memory module has successfully completed customer evaluations and is claimed to increase productivity while reducing power consumption.
Mass production of these RAMs is expected in the second half of this year and when applied with the 30nm process tech, [...]

 
LG Display, the second largest display maker is looking to open a new avenue for e-content providers and manufacturers. They’ve created the industry’s largest bendable e-ink display (measuring 19-inches), making it an appropriate choice for newspaper companies.
The display is just 0.3mm thick and to make it more bendable, the screen uses a metal foil [...]

 
Samsung has announced two high capacity storage solutions for mobile devices. Its the 64GB moviNAND memory and 32GB microSD card that are based on advanced NAND flash chips using the 30nm process. The moviNAND memory measures just 1.4mm in height and comprises of 16 Multi-level cell based NAND chips and a controller.
On the other [...]

 
The great Indian 3G auction delay continues. After locking in the Jan 14 date, an anonymous source has confirmed to Dow Jones that the government will reschedule the auction to a later date.
The reason for the delay is not known and neither the latest date.
“It will obviously not be on Jan. 14. We [...]

 
A German encryption expert, Karsten Nohl has cracked and published the GSM code that is widely used to encrypt calls to prevent eavesdropping. Anything in the tech world is often given the vintage status after a decade or so but in the case of 21-year old GSM encryption technology, it is still in use serving [...]

 
HDMI Licensing LLC., group that licenses HDMI specs has announced its plans to add 3D broadcast support in HDMI v1.4. The group will be meeting in late January to finalize and add the latest format, known as Top/Bottom so that a mandatory 3D broadcast format is established.
HDMI 1.4 already supports various 3D display structures like [...]

 
Back in May LG had created the world’s thinnest LCD TV panel measuring 5.9mm. Now, they’re back again reclaiming the title from Samsung by showing off a panel that is more than 50 percent thinner than LG’s previous one, measuring at just 2.6mm. LG claims the slimness is an achievement from use of “slimming” technologies, [...]

 
LG, Samsung, Sony Pictures and Valens Semiconductor have come together to form the HDBaseT alliance. It’s a cross-industry alliance to promote HDBaseT technology that will allow users to watch uncompressed HD video (full HD), audio as well as internet on their HDTVs using a simple CAT5e cable.
The alliance wants to standardize the tech, helping [...]