ZTE teases 6.2mm-thick ‘Athena,’ crams in 720p IPS display and Cortex-A15 chip

By Richard Lai posted May 30th 2012 2:13PM Never mind Huawei’s 6.68mm-thick Ascend P1 S or Oppo’s 6.65mm-thick Finder, because the record’s about to be beaten yet again by another Chinese manufacturer. Codenamed “Athena,” this mysterious ZTE phone’s been getting a fair bit of attention on Sina Weibo with its 6.2mm slimness claim, all thanks to a keen terminal device strategy director from the...

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Canadian carriers put Galaxy S III launch on June 20th, back dual-core 1.5GHz chip for LTE models (update: Snapdragon, 2GB RAM official)

By Jon Fingas posted May 30th 2012 2:29PM Canadian carriers flocked to the Galaxy S III before we’d barely even left our seats in London to try it, and it looks like they’re also more than a little eager to provide launch details ahead of their American counterparts. Telus and Videotron have both confirmed the leaked June 20th release date, and Telus has gone so far as to reinforce suspicions that LTE models will use the...

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Final Cut Pro X In Action

Final Cut in Action: Read Article Final Cut in Action: Read Article Final Cut in Action: Read Article Home Mac Final Cut Pro X In Action Considering a Mac Find out how Wi-Fi Base Stations Servers Mac OS X Safari Mac App Store Developer Markets Education Shop the Apple Online Store (1-800-MY-APPLE), visit an Apple Retail Store, or find a reseller. Copyright © 2012 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. More: Final Cut Pro X In ActionCar...

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Menlo Park city council advances Facebook expansion plans

The Menlo Park, California, city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve Facebook’s plan to expand its headquarters in the city, pending a final procedural vote at its next meeting on June 5. Facebook has sought permission to house as many as 6,600 workers at its main campus in the former offices of Sun Microsystems and potentially to make taller its west campus buildings, which were once home to Tyco Electronics. The...

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Intellectual Ventures’ Nathan Myhrvold defends patent trolling, calls tech industry immature

By Darren Murph posted May 30th 2012 2:33PM Intellectual Ventures’ CEO and founder Nathan Myhrvold, who previously spent some 14 years at Microsoft Research, took the stage here at D10, and as predicted, his interview with Walt Mossberg was quite the invigorating one. You may know the man and his company for its vicious patent trolling — or, what appears to be patent trolling. In essence, a lot of its business comes from...

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