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Eastman Kodak has agreed to sell document-imaging assets to Japanese office-equipment company Brother Industries for about US$210 million, setting the minimum bid for an auction.
Bloomberg
Between March 2012 and October 2012, the proportion of people who used a desktop or notebook computer for tweeting fell from 77% to 64%. In the same period the proportion who used a mobile phone for tweeting rose from 53% to 64%.
Strategy Analytics
"More generally there is a growing level of dissatisfaction among Apple executives and employees, and a greater willingness to explore leaving..."
Business Insider
China's economic growth slowed unexpectedly in the first quarter, raising concerns that a recovery that started in the second half of last year is already losing steam.
Wall Street Journal
A German security consultant, who's also a commercial pilot, has demonstrated tools he says could be used to hijack an airplane remotely, using just an Android phone.
CNN
Tom's Hardware Guide
Data from Chinese semiconductor industry sources identifies Allwinner as, by far, the number one apps processor supplier for Chinese tablets in 2012, followed by Rockchip, ViaTech, Amlogic and Vimicro.
EE Times
Kingston's 512GB USB 3.0 Drive might have trouble being used as a boot drive for multiple operating systems as a result of this bug.
BSN
Cadence Design Systems has announced an ongoing multi-year agreement with TSMC to develop the design infrastructure for 16-nanometer FinFET technology, targeting advanced node designs for mobile, networking, servers and FPGA applications.
Company release
New York Times
Motley Fool
Samsung is not done pumping the smartphone form factor with growth hormones-a "Mega" phone with a 6.3-inch screen is reportedly in the works.
Ars Technica
A two-week long Chinese media campaign had focused on Apple's repair policies.
BBC News
All Things Digital
Lenovo, which has maintained a small IC design team consisting of about 10 people over the last decade, is now committed to expanding this team to about 100 engineers by the middle of 2013, according to a China-based industry source with direct knowledge of the company's recruitment of chip designers.
EE Times
Samsung still has its challenges in trying to beat Apple for consumers' loyalty.
Fortune
The HTC One was successfully torn down, but the excessive use of glue, rather than screws, helped make this device the single most difficult cellphone ever disassembled.
Laptop
Ericsson is in talks to buy Microsoft Corp's IPTV business, which makes software used by phone companies such as AT&T to deliver television over the Internet, Bloomberg reported, quoting people with knowledge of the matter.
Reuters
A former CIO and vice president at networking hardware vendor Foundry Networks has been charged with insider trading over the company's acquisition in 2008 by Brocade Communications Systems, the US Department of Justice said.
Computerworld
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