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European Union Antitrust Regulators Are Collecting Information to Determine
May 29, 2013European Union antitrust regulators are collecting information to determine whether Apple's iPhone contract deals with various telecoms operators have been designed to shut out rival smartphone makers, such as Samsung, HTC and Nokia. ...
Tags: Apple, Smartphone, Antitrust Probe
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Yahoo Japan Said It Discovered Illicit Access to Its ID Servers on Thursday Evening
May 22, 2013Yahoo Japan, the country's largest Web portal, said up to 22 million user IDs may have been leaked during a hack that was discovered last week. The company emphasized that the IDs are already public information, and no passwords or other ...
Tags: Yahoo Japan, User ID, Computer Products
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Samsung Has Posted Record Revenues and Profits in Its First Quarter Financial Results
Apr 27, 2013Consumer electronics giant Samsung has posted record revenues and profits in its first quarter financial results following a surge in sales of mobile phones. The company cut the price of its popular Android smartphones in advance of the ...
Tags: Smartphone Sales, Samsung Storm
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Kenyan Government Has No Intention of Censoring What Citizens Do Online
Mar 25, 2013The Kenyan government has said that it has no intention of censoring what citizens do online or of closing access to social media networks in the country, despite facing challenges of identifying and tracking down people behind online hate ...
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European Commission Is Deciding Whether to Launch an Anti-Trust Investigation
Mar 22, 2013The European Commission is deciding whether to launch an anti-trust investigation into Apple's contracts with European mobile phone operators. Concerns have been raised by a group of European telecommunications operators, but no formal ...
Tags: Apple, European Commission, mobile phone
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Mobile Phone Operators Will Make More Revenue From Data Use Than Voice Calls by 2018
Feb 26, 2013Mobile phone operators will make more revenue from data use than voice calls by 2018, according to a new report from mobile operator body GSMA. The report comes as Mobile World Congress (MWC), The GSMA's annual mobile device convention, ...
Tags: voice calls, Mobile phone operators, GSMA
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Tizen 2.0 Is Now Available as an Alpha Release with an Accompanying SDK
Dec 31, 2012Tizen 2.0, the open-source smartphone operating system, is now available as an alpha release with an accompanying software development kit (SDK), the Tizen project announced on Tuesday. The release lends credence to rumors that project ...
Tags: software, Computer Products, Samsung, Tizen based smartphone
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Samsung Faces Calls to Issue Security Update for Galaxy S3 Smartphone
Sep 27, 2012Samsung is facing calls to issue a security update for the Galaxy S3 smartphone after it was discovered that the device can be reset by code hidden in a web page. German security researchers have demonstrated how an 11-character code can ...
Tags: Samsung, Galaxy S3, smartphone, vulnerability, hackers
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European Parliament Wants Cars to Alert Emergency Services in Case of a Crash
Jul 4, 2012By 2015, the European Parliament wants all new cars to automatically alert emergency services in case of a crash, a service known as eCall. The Parliament adopted a resolution to this effect in a show of hands on Tuesday, and urged the ...
Tags: EU, eCall, automatically alert emergency services, services
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The Spectrum Freed up by TV Switchover From Analogue to Digital Will Be Auctioned by Ofcom
Jul 3, 2012Residents whose TV signal is affected by the 4G roll-out may have to pay for their own solutions to the problem, according to the government minister responsible. The spectrum freed up by the TV switchover from analogue to digital will be ...
Tags: UK, TV switchover, Freeview customers
