CardioNet, a provider of ambulatory, continuous, real-time outpatient management solutions, and AirStrip have joined forces to expand mobile patient monitoring. The partnership will develop an integrated solution to enable health systems ...
Sales of mobile phones worldwide have gone into reverse as the industry's drive towards longer contracts has reduced the need to constantly upgrade a handset. About 1.75 billion mobile phones were sold last year, according to Gartner, the ...
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The Nokia Germany product manager David • Akinjise recently in an interview revealed that user demand is not high on the full QWERTY keyboard phones and Nokia may not launch such products. Nokia might no longer launch a full ...
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BuQu Tech announces pre-sale availability of the Magnetyze AC Wall Charger and Magnetyze Car Charging Stand beginning today. iPhone 4/4S and Samsung Galaxy S III users alike can share a charge from the road or any AC outlet. All ...
ecoATM, the award-winning San Diego start-up known for its innovative kiosks that fully automate the buy-back of used consumer electronics, announced today that it has secured $40 million in mezzanine debt financing from Falcon Investment ...
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Budget phones can be miserable affairs. Poor screen and camera resolution, terrible keyboards and hand-me-down technology can make a user feel like the character in Barbra Streisand's 60s hit Second Hand Rose. This isn't so with Nokia's ...
Smartphone maker BlackBerry says it has no immediate plans to sell its new handsets in Japan, but the company denied it was abandoning one of the world's most tech-savvy nations. Having fallen far behind Apple and lost ground to other ...
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Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA, has reported improved results for fiscal first-quarter 2013 (ending 28 December 2012). Revenue was $453.7m, up nearly 8% on last quarter’s $421.1m and 15% on ...
Editor's note: This story has been updated based on corrected information from T-Mobile to clarify the status of the shared data plans for business. T-Mobile USA plans to lure new business customers with shared data plans and no early ...
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In an effort to make it easier to connect vehicles, Ericsson and Gemalto have joined forces on embedded SIMs. Just like in mobile phones, SIM cards secure devices used for connecting machines. To simplify management, the telecom industry ...
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Despite recent headlines about its security woes, Java has returned to the top spot in a monthly assessment of the popularity of programming languages, 10 months after being supplanted by the C language. The Tiobe Programming Community ...
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Samsung Electronics has launched REX, a new series of "smart feature phones" that it will sell in emerging markets. Countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China will drive much of the volume growth in the global phone ...
The company formerly known as RIM delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic BlackBerry product line, but BlackBerry devices still face an uphill battle against Apple's iPhone and myriad smartphones based on ...
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Nokia and LG Electronics have both launched new phones that can handle two SIM cards, as they aim to attract more buyers in developing countries. Offering dual-SIM products has become increasingly important in the last couple of years . ...
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The Tokyo government has posted nearly 300 NFC location tags around the upscale Ginza shopping district and released an Android app to interact with them as part of an experiment to help guide shoppers. The latest trial, part of the ...
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