On June 28,Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins announced the company's latest financials in a particularly grim earnings call.Heins reported a first-quarter loss of$518 million,or 99 cents a share.Overall sales for the period were$2.8 ...
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IDG News Service-If Japan's Softbank barges its way into the U.S.mobile market,expect contract prices to fall. The company,mostly unknown outside of Japan,is in negotiations to acquire a large chunk in U.S.operator Sprint Nextel,and ...
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IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators. The companies said the deal would ...
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The regular rant heard from mobile operators is how much "over the top" service providers are stealing their revenue. The likes of Skype and WhatsApp operate on their handsets, but allow users to circumvent the core voice, text and data ...
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With its newly released Windows Phone SDK 8.0, Microsoft is offering a better story for smartphone software developers, but the SDK itself may force some developers to undergo system upgrades. Technologists and developers who have sampled ...
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Many mobile apps aimed at children collect and share personal data without notifying parents, potentially violating U.S. law, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Monday. The FTC has launched an investigation of several ...
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Citrix saw profits slump by 15% in the third quarter to $78.2m (GBP49m), while sales increased by 13% to $641.4m. The results follows those of rival VMware, which also saw a double-digit drop in profits of 12% to $157m, while sales ...
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India's auction of mobile spectrum has not attracted new foreign investors, reflecting growing uncertainty about investment policies in the country and the growth potential of its mobile market. Telenor and the Indian joint venture of NTT ...
Kicking off what may be the company's most challenging marketing effort yet, Microsoft has launched its next generation operating system, Windows 8, in New York City. "Windows 8 shatters perceptions of what a PC really is," said Microsoft ...
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Qualcomm saw a double-digit increase in sales this year and is now the world's third-largest chip maker, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. With a 27.2% growth in semiconductor revenue, Qualcomm is booming while seven of the top 10 ...
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Facebook has paid far lower than the announced $1 billion in cash and stock for photo-sharing app Instagram, following a drop in its share price. The social networking company said in its Form 10-Q quarterly report to the U.S. Securities ...
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Sprint Nextel will spend $2.2 billion to take complete ownership of Clearwire, a move that will help it expand its network capacity. Clearwire's board of directors has accepted the latest bid allowing Sprint to purchase the nearly 50% of ...
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BT has entered the bidding process for Ofcom's 4G spectrum auction,despite previous comments from CEO Ian Livingston about staying out of the mobile market. Ofcom has released the names of accepted bidders who will take part in the 4G ...
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Android was on over two-thirds of smartphones shipped in the second quarter, with Apple's iOS on around a sixth of them -- more than all the remaining smartphone OSes combined, IDC said Wednesday. Windows Phone's share of the market ...
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Prudent Marketing, leading online clearing house for the top online and mobile casinos on the internet, revealed that International Game Technology (IGT), recently rolled out three brand new video slot games for the mobile industry. IGT ...
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