Sprint plans to deploy small cell gear from Alcatel-Lucent to augment its wireless coverage -- including in its new 4G LTE network -- in high-traffic areas, the two companies announced Monday. Alcatel-Lucent's LightRadio Metro Cells are ...
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Swedish telecommunications equipment maker,Ericsson,will take an 8bn Swedish kronor(SEK)($1.2bn)charge in the fourth quarter(Q4)on its stake in the ST-Ericsson joint venture. STMicroelectronics announced earlier this month that it was ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook today apologized to users for the substandard Apple Maps app in iOS 6, and steered them toward alternatives including Microsoft's Bing app and Google's online Maps. The Hoover Dam bypass bridge south of the dam ...
LG said Tuesday its Optimus G smartphone with a fast quad-core processor and LTE service will go on sale in the U.S. in November. LG's Optimus G smartphone The phone, which features a 4.7-in. display and 1280 x 768 resolution, was ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Monday said Windows Phone will grow quickly in the global smartphone market. “We are still relatively small … I expect the volumes on Windows Phone to really ramp quickly,” Ballmer said, as ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is "extremely sorry" to customers for inaccuracies in its new mapping software included in iOS 6, and has pointed users to competing services in an open letter to customers released Friday. With many users and news ...
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Samsung Electronics' semiconductor arm has begun volume production of 128GB embedded memory modules for next-generation smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, the company said on Tuesday. An upgrade to 128GB would double or ...
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Nokia's dismal earnings report announced Thursday has left smartphone industry observers looking for better news at the Nokia World conference Sept. 5-6 in Helsinki. There are hints that Nokia could launch Windows Phone 8 on its Lumia ...
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Three service providers that use equipment from Huawei have said they will take strong precautions to ensure the security of their networks in response to a congressional report on this week that said carriers should not buy from Huawei or ...
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HTC and Microsoft, have introduced Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones that will be the signature devices for the software maker’s upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS. The Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones will have 4.3-inch screens and ...
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Huawei Technologies will invest €70 million (US$90.6 million) over a five-year period to establish a research and development centre in Helsinki, Finland; its first task will be to build software for smartphones and tablets based on ...
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Nokia is planning to unveil a 10in tablet based on Windows RT at the end of February 2013,according to reports circulating in the Far East. While rumours of a tablet from Nokia have been rife for more than two years,the reports suggest ...
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Google will begin to phase out its Sync service for consumers and discontinue several other services in early January. The shuttering of the services, described as "winter cleaning" by the company, was announced in a post on its official ...
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Launched back in 1985, the venerable i386 processor has served countless PC users around the globe long and well, but recently the developers of the Linux kernel decided to drop support for it. This tree removes ancient-386-CPUs support ...
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Nokia today announced its results for the third quarter of 2012, showing revenues had fallen again. Nokia reported overall sales of €7.2bn for Q3 2012, down from €7.5bn in Q2 2012 and €9bn in Q3 2011. Sales from the ...
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