LG spokesman said recently that the company currently did not plan to release any Windows Phone mobile phones. The spokesman said, "We want to provide consumers with everything they need.” As Windows Phone handsets market demand is ...
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HTC showed off some capabilities of its new premium HTC One Android handset at a ritzy Australian launch in Sydney last night. You could be mistaken for thinking the silver version of the One was an Apple device: its thin ...
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IBM is making a renewed push into the burgeoning market for all things mobile, saying it can help its corporate customers grow revenue and become more competitive through mobile app development. The effort pulls together a raft of IBM ...
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BBC CTO John Linwood has stated that the BBC feeds into Apple on its products and services – including the iPhone and iPad – though he admitted that he is unsure as to how much weight the organisation places on his views. In ...
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HTC announced its new flagship HTC One smartphone on Tuesday, which HTC Americas President Mike Woodward dubbed "the best phone ever made." The smartphone, with a 4.7-in. screen, will be sold in mid-March by AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile USA ...
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HTC, the struggling Taiwanese maker of smartphones, is taking a page from longtime partner Microsoft as it launches a new phone under the One brand. The phone runs Google's Android software, but HTC is grafting its own home screen on ...
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Canonical, the open source software company behind the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux, has unveiled the next stage in its plan for a unified operating system. The Ubuntu tablet forms one-quarter of Canonical's strategy to produce a ...
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Microsoft will demonstrate on Tuesday for the first time an integration between its Lync enterprise IM, audio and video conferencing server and its Skype consumer counterpart, the latest Microsoft response to the consumerization of IT ...
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has spoken out about his dissatisfaction with the pace of innovation at the company he founded in the 1970s. Gates handed over the role of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000 and has been blamed for a number ...
HTC and Nokia are separately expected to announce super-high-quality cameras in new smartphones expected to be unveiled over the next week. It remains unclear whether the new cameras alone can lure new customers to either smartphone ...
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Google's Android system was used on 70.1 per cent of smartphones shipped in the quarter, while Apple held 21 per cent, according to research firm IDC. "The dominance of Android and Apple reached a new watermark in the fourth quarter," ...
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Buyers of Windows 8 smartphones need to check that apps that offer vital functionality on their iPhone and Android devices are available for their new Microsoft-inspired handset. Apps can be either missing, of relatively poor quality ...
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Budget phones can be miserable affairs. Poor screen and camera resolution, terrible keyboards and hand-me-down technology can make a user feel like the character in Barbra Streisand's 60s hit Second Hand Rose. This isn't so with Nokia's ...
Nokia and LG Electronics have both launched new phones that can handle two SIM cards, as they aim to attract more buyers in developing countries. Offering dual-SIM products has become increasingly important in the last couple of years . ...
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BlackBerry says launch sales of its new BlackBerry 10 handsets in Canada and the U.K. have beaten previous company records, but it isn't releasing actual sales figures. "In Canada, yesterday was the best day ever for the first day of a ...