Canalys has published its final second-quarter-2013 smartphone shipment estimates by vendor for the 50-plus countries that it tracks. Some 238.1 million units shipped in the second quarter, an impressive 50% on-year increase. And while ...
Tags: Smartphone Shipments, Top Vendors
Taiwan panel makers are reportedly lowering their shipments for Ultra HD TV panels in the second half of 2013 due to lower-than-expected sales as well as to increased competition from Korea- and China-based makers, according to industry ...
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Recently, the first flexible AMOLED display in mainland China came out, it is a 3.5-inch monochrome display developed by Visionox, this display comes with thin film encapsulation technology and bendable by the maximum radius of 10 mm. ...
Tags: LED Display, LED
Mobile network O2 has announced that its 4G service will launch in the UK on 29 August. The new network, which it claims will be up to five times faster than 3G, will be switched on in London, Leeds and Bradford first, followed by a ...
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A US International Trade Commission ruling from June 2013 banning sales of older Apple iPad and iPhone models has been overturned by the Obama administration. The decision - which related to 3G wireless technology - has been vetoed ...
Facebook's "Bug Bounty" programme has paid out $1m in total to users-turned-security-bug-hunters in the past two years, with the youngest recipient being a 13-year-old boy. The largest single "bounty" has been $20,000, and two recipients ...
Tags: Facebook, Amateur Security Testing
Google has announced that it will be releasing its new mid-range smartphone, the Moto X, in the US, Canada and Latin America around the end of August or early September. Manufactured in newly-built facilities in Texas, the Moto X will be ...
Tags: Smartphone, Motorola
Of the top-selling smartphones in the U.S. in the past year, customers ranked two Samsung smartphones higher than the last three Apple iPhone models. The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Wednesday, ranked both the ...
Tags: Samsung Smartphones, iPhones
Isis will roll out its mobile wallet application nationwide later this year following successful pilots that launched last fall in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Isis, which competes with Google Wallet and other mobile wallet ...
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Microsoft today released a stripped-down version of Office for Android smartphones, continuing its strategy of tying its mobile suite to the Office 365 rent-not-buy subscription plans. Wednesday's launch of Office Mobile for Android ...
Tags: Android Phones
Computerworld - Starbucks has dropped AT&T as its in-store Wi-Fi provider, teaming up instead with Google and Level 3 Communications to offer 10 times faster network speeds. The coffee shop chain said the changeover will start in August ...
Tags: Starbucks, Wireless Charging
With the Moto X smartphone launching tomorrow in New York and the LG G2 arriving in another week, the pace of smartphone releases has reached a fever pitch. Countless models of smartphones have emerged since the first iPhone appeared six ...
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Samsung is positioning itself to be one of the first handset vendors to tap into China's upcoming market for 4G services by introducing new Galaxy S4 phones capable of operating on both FDD and TDD LTE networks. The South Korean company ...
Tags: Samsung, 4G LTE Phones
IC Insights’ new 250-page Mid-Year Update to the 2013 McClean Report, which is slated to be released by the end of July, describes why a very clear distinction should be made between the IC market (i.e., consumption) in China and IC ...
Tags: IC Companies, IC Production
Despite a major surplus in the light-emitting diode (LED) market, the top suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production because of government incentives and in order to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business, ...
Tags: LED, Electrical, Electronics