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HTC’s 2011 Q4: good summer, bad winter

HTC’s big 2011 was limited to those warm summer months, when everyone wanted a smartphone for the beach. Now the accountants have confirmed HTC’s initial statement: fourth quarter revenues were down 2.49 percent (year on year). It made 101.42 billion…

Server outage turns Harmony Link into a paperweight

The Cloud is great place right? It’s all puppy dogs and ice cream, until it isn’t. We’d suspect that’s what Harmony Link users who ditched their old school remotes for an iOS device are thinking right about now. You see while typical Harmony remote ar…

DASH promises stutter free streaming video over LTE, hopes you don’t care about quality

We’ve all been there: fire up a clip from YouTube or a movie on Netflix and things start out great. But, then, after just a few moments, that LTE connection starts to give up the ghost and suddenly you’re faced with unbearable stutturing or a video th…

Micron appoints Mark Durcan as new CEO

In the wake of last week’s fatal plane crash that took the life of its CEO, Micron Technology has appointed a successor, Mark Durcan. The former CTO has been with the company since 1984, and has — per company bylaws — been serving as interim chief si…