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News.blog: ARM demos Google Android handset

News The company designs the processor cores that companies like Texas Instruments, Samsung and Marvell manufacture into chips that run mobile phones and smart phones.ARM has the Android software running on a prototype device using the ARM9 processor...

Tags: mobile phone, handset, linux, platform

12 February 2008, 9:24

News.blog: ARM extends to Android

News ARM plans to demonstrate prototype phones based on ARM processors and Google's Android operating system next week, possibly paving the way for the chip designer to join An ARM representative distributed invitations on Wednesday to come see and play...

Tags: companies, handset, google, mobile phone

7 February 2008, 9:45

ARM shares dip on warning

News Strong results from chip maker ARM have failed to boost to the company's share price during morning trading. There are also concerns that major ARM customers may have experienced a fall in shipments during the last quarter of 2001.

28 January 2002, 11:57

Photos: Intel shows off future tech

News This robotic arm and hand developed by researchers at Intel's personal robotic lab in Pittsburgh demonstrates the latest in motion planning and manipulation. Eventually, the designers plan to attach the arm to a Segway, making it mobile.Company...

Tags: hand, handle, research, production

16 June 2008, 10:23

Factory robot used as amusement park ride

News The Robocoaster from Germany's Kuka Roboter is a modified version of one of the company's industrial robots that spins, flips, twirls and swings two people with a gigantic arm. The employee surmised that it if the company attached a roller coaster...

4 August 2005, 10:31

Japan makes way for real-life air guitars

News You just put it on your wrist and shake your arm once so it will play one phrase. In order to play an entire song, you just keep moving your arm so even children can easily play music," said Nana Kaneko, who was playing Air Musician by Tokyo-based...

29 June 2007, 11:07

Photos: Hands-on robot joins space station

News Jaws at the end of each arm allow Dextre to grab on to objects. Dextre can only move one arm at a time to maintain stability and avoid colliding with the other arm. On Tuesday, astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour will have a special Canadian...

Tags: objects, base, installed, space

11 March 2008, 9:04

'Robo-legs' help amputees get around

News Clapp lost both his legs above the knee and his right arm just short of his shoulder after falling onto train tracks almost five years ago near his home in California. Research at MIT in the 1970s led to the development of the Boston Digital Arm...

27 June 2005, 11:13

Photos: How to survive a Humvee rollover

News Soldiers are taught to place one arm against the roof of the vehicle to brace against the spin and to use the other arm to reach for the seatbelt buckle. Among the dangers faced by the coalition ground troops in

Tags: training, story, department, army

12 November 2007, 10:11

Photos: Cracking open the iPhone

News According to the ARM Web site, the ARM1176JZ(F)-S chip uses ARM TrustZone technology to improve security, ARM Jazelle technology for embedded Java execution, and ARM Intelligent Energy Manager technology to reduce processor power consumption.

Tags: logo, jack, removed, plastic

9 July 2007, 11:47

'Madagascar' pushes tech limits

News Master animators used to sketch what's called a key frame -- for example, a boy with his arm cocked to throw a ball. Then the next frame drawn would be of the boy with his arm forward with the ball leaving his hand.

25 May 2005, 10:07

Game industry sues Michigan over sales ban

News The lobbying arm of the videogame industry on Wednesday announced plans to sue the governor of Michigan to block recently passed legislation banning the sale of violent videogames there. The Michigan law, SB 416, is designed to limit the sale of...

15 September 2005, 10:05

HP pledges to cut CO2 emissions

News HP has promised to cut its greenhouse gas emissions under a joint initiative with the US arm of the World Wildlife Fund. Under the initiative, announced on Wednesday, HP will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 15 per cent at its leased and owned...

9 November 2006, 9:25

BBC announces big online revamp

News The BBC has unveiled its Creative Future strategy and its plans for a revamp of its online arm which could see it taking on the likes of MySpace. The move towards a more tech-savvy BBC is prompted by the broadcaster's fears it may be failing a...

27 April 2006, 11:52

Vodafone hightails it out of Japan

News Vodafone has completed the sale of its Japanese arm to local Internet and telecoms company Softbank in a deal that values the company at ¥1.8tr, or around £8.9bn. In return for its 97 per cent stake in Japan's third biggest operator, Vodafone KK...

20 March 2006, 9:33