The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has confirmed the winning design of the fourth form factor of the SIM card is the design submitted by Apple for the Nano-SIM.

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Pantech is showing its rising confidence as Korea's no. 2 smartphone manufacturer by introducing the Vega R3 featuring a powerful performance, a fancy UX, and luxury design in the fourth quarter, where all major competitors are showing off their best products.

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Mentor Graphics shares are trading sharply lower Friday morning after the electronic design automation software company posted mixed results for the fiscal fourth quarter ended January 31, and provided disappointing guidance for Q1 and for the January 2014 fiscal year.

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This new OEM product is a reference design that will be available in the fourth quarter to companies that need a complete off-the-shelf device for their consumers.

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And while Intel said it will start selling a new processor design, dubbed Nehalem, in the fourth quarter of this year, AMD countered that it will shrink the size of the transistors on its existing server chips by the fourth quarter to match Intel's.

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It helps us to narrow down our choices, and ends with the design of some small bets that allow us to address the fourth question, What works? by interacting in the real world with actual users through our small experiments.

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Bhan refuses to name his distributor, fearing that some of its traditional retail customers will find out about his agreement and pressure the distributor to dump him. (It already happened to Medsite once.) To cut costs, Bhan and his partners -- all Indian expatriates -- created a sister company to design and update the software in Bangalore, where programmers work for one-fourth of U.S. wages.

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