The number of mobile malware apps has jumped 614 percent in the last year, according to studies conducted by McAfee and Juniper Networks. The Juniper study – its third annual Mobile Threats Report – showed that the majority of ...
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Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
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Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or "the Company") has entered into turnkey contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships. Two drillships will be built at the DSME yard and the other two at the Samsung yard, in South Korea. The project ...
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Finnish phone manufacturer Nokia chose Windows Phone over Google's Android operating system for its smartphones, so that it could entice mobile carriers with a "third alternative", according to Nokia's chief executive, Stephen Elop. At ...
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The current direction of smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry means its products might not be a sustainable option for use in BYOD schemes. That's what Maurice Jenkins, director of information systems and telecommunications for Miami ...
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Apple is to investigate an accident in which a woman in China died after using an iPhone 5 while it was charging. The incident occurred last Thursday, and Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the woman, Ma Ailun, was 23 years old, ...
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Hanjin Chemical, a specialty paint manufacturer, has begun operations of its Hanoi, Vietnam plant for specialty coating materials used for mobile devices. "We established the plant to supply paint materials to Samsung Electronics Vietnam ...
A row is brewing over benchmarks used to assess the performance of smartphone semiconductors after one of the tools had to be revised following claims of discrepancies over its results. The AnTuTu benchmark, which is used on Android ...
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Total revenue for Taiwan-listed LED makers fell from NTD10.96bn in May to NTD10.6bn in June, as the LED market was affected by declining demand for backlight application and stocktaking, according to LEDinside (a subsidiary of industry ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, a maker of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, which it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has appointed West Coast Limited as a ...
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Following on the heels of Samsung's announcement yesterday of its first smaller--and less expensive--Ultra HD TVs, LG is launching its own 55- and 65-inch sets in the LA9700 series, which will carry price tags of $6,000 and $8,000, ...
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A lint-filled dryer vent is not just a lot of fluff. The clogged vent increases drying time and energy use, and worse, lint can cause dryer fires. Consumer Reports latest dryer tests found that blocked-vent indicators have improved on some ...
LG Display said Thursday it has developed the world's thinnest full HD LCD display for smartphones, measuring just 2.2 millimeters thick. The company said its new 5.2-inch (132 mm) display panel has a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and ...
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Computerworld - Nokia launched its Lumia 1020 on Thursday with a raft of high-end camera features, including a 41-megapixel optical sensor. Nokia's Lumia 1020 smartphone. With that megapixel count, the Lumia 1020 sensor is ...
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The "Strategy Analytics" said, in the first quarter of 2013, India replaced Japan as the world's third largest smartphone market, the shipments jumped 163%, far above the global average. The first and the second is also China and United ...
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