Computerworld - Samsung's battle with Apple has gone to the courts, and now to the streets. A new attack ad by Samsung pokes fun at Apple customers who wait in line outside stores for the iPhone 5. A new attack ad from Samsung pokes fun ...
Tags: Samsung, iPhone 5, smartphone, communications technology
More that a dozen retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and 7-Eleven have joined forces to form the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), a mobile-payments network that will compete with Google and Isis. The retailers claim that they ...
Tags: Walmart, Target, MCX, mobile payments network
Verizon Wireless Thursday announced that it will start upgrading Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones on its network to the Android 4.1 operating system tomorrow. Samsung had unveiled the upgrade of the smartphone to the so-called Jelly Bean ...
Tags: Verizon, Galaxy S III, Jelly Bean, smartphones, Android 4.1
Are you still in awe looking at the Samsung Galaxy S III’s polarizing 4.8” HD Super AMOLED display? Of course you are, mainly because of its brilliant looks and vibrant color production. Indeed, you probably want to keep that ...
Tags: Samsung, Galaxy S III, Super AMOLED, GLAS Premium, Tempered Glass Screen
Vodafone is attempting to keep hold of its customers by promising a special upgrade deal when its 4G network launches next year. EE is the only UK mobile operator with the capability to launch a 4G network at the moment after Ofcom ruled ...
Tags: Vodafone, 4G network, EE, network
The Isis joint venture of three wireless carriers announced the launch today of its new mobile wallet system in Salt Lake City and Austin using nine NFC-ready and Isis-ready smartphones sold by the carriers. Consumers interested in using ...
Tags: Isis joint venture, wireless carriers, mobile wallet system, smartphones
The global mobile phone market is showing signs of slowing, despite the continuing boom in smartphone sales. New research from IDC claimed worldwide shipments of mobiles grew by just 1.4% in 2012, which it predicts will translate to 1.7bn ...
Tags: mobile phone, smartphone, mobile operating system, iOS software, phone
Two weeks after online orders of the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone reached some AT&T customers, the carrier said the new smartphone will finally be available in its stores on Friday for $199.99 and a two-year contract. "We did let ...
Tags: Samsung, Galaxy S III, smartphone, customers
Boston-area Starbucks stores are the first in the nation to take part in a pilot program of Duracell's Powermat wireless charging technology. Seventeen stores in Boston and neighboring Cambridge are included in the wireless charging ...
Tags: Starbucks stores, pilot program, Duracell, wireless charging, Boston
AT&T is putting the pedal to the metal on its LTE deployments, saying Thursday it has added seven more markets to its list, atop of the four market launches it had announced three days earlier. The carrier now offers LTE service in 120 ...
Tags: pedal, LTE deployments, market, LTE service
Nokia's Lumia smartphones struggled to lift the Finnish handset provider's market share in China, while domestic vendors ZTE, Huawei Technologies and Lenovo overtook Apple in smartphone shipments in the second quarter, according to research ...
Tags: Nokia, Lumia smartphone, China, ZTE, Huawei, Lenovo, Apple
A variation of the recently disclosed attack that can wipe data from Samsung Android devices when visiting a malicious Web page can also be used to disable the SIM cards from many Android phones, researchers say. Ravishankar Borgaonkar, a ...
Tags: USSD, SIM Cards, Samsung, Android Devices
Behold the physical qwerty keyboard. It just seems to hang in there with smartphone users. Sprint announced Tuesday that it plans to sell the LG Mach smartphone for use on its 4G LTE network this fall. That means the company will be ...
Tags: Sprint, qwerty keyboard, smartphone, LTE network
Mobile startup Ting, which delivers its voice, text and data offerings over Sprint Nextel's network, has become the newest LTE service provider by shipping its first device that uses the fast 4G technology. Ting is now shipping Samsung ...
Tags: Mobile startup Ting, Nextel's network, LTE service, Samsung, Galaxy S III
Sprint 4G engineering manager Viet chu shows off a new Alcatel Lucent router for LTE service in Baltimore. Sprint officials showed off new 4G LTE cellular service today in Baltimore, the carrier's 16th market in the U.S. to get the ...
Tags: Sprint officials, 4G LTE cellular service, Baltimore, U.S.