Microsoft's acquisition of Finnish firm Nokia's mobile phone business and patents is a bad piece of business, according to Jon "Maddog" Hall, the executive director of Linux International, a non-profit organisation of IT professionals that ...
There were 90.39 million handsets sold in the China market during second-quarter 2013, slipping 0.2% sequentially but growing 41.8% on year, and 77.11 million of the units sold were smartphones, increasing 2.4% sequentially and 56.8% on ...
Tags: Smartphone, China market
With its $7.2 billion agreement to buy Nokia’s handset business, Microsoft is in a position to surpass Apple and Android smartphone makers in providing an enterprise-class mobile platform, experts say. However, whether Microsoft is ...
Tags: Nokia, Mobile Enterprise
A labor watchdog group is slamming one of Apple’s suppliers for allegedly exploiting its Chinese workers to build the upcoming budget iPhone. To meet production orders for the device, a factory in Wuxi, China run by U.S.-based Jabil ...
Tags: Apple Supplier, iPhone
China’s Xiaomi is bringing the low-price strategy that has driven its success in mobile phones to the country’s smart TV arena with a new 47-inch television that it says is the most affordable on the market. The Xiaomi TV runs ...
Tags: Smart TV, Smartphone
Microsoft has won a second trial against Google-owned Motorola Mobility after the firm failed to license its patents at a reasonable rate. The court battle was the second of two trials in a Seattle federal court and has resulted in ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The domination of prestige electric cars looks like becoming a reality, at least in California, with Elon Musk’s Tesla Model S already outselling a host of luxury competitors in the first half of 2013. A report by the Californian ...
Microsoft's?$7.2 billion deal?to buy Nokia, announced early today, makes Nokia CEO Stephen Elop the frontrunner to head up Microsoft after Steve Ballmer departs, analysts said. Unfortunately, the deal isn't likely to substantially improve ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
"We must indeed all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall hang separately." Benjamin Franklin reportedly said this during the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But this quote can also be used to explain?the?Microsoft-Nokia ...
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Samsung Knox smartphones will include mobile security software from Lookout to protect business users from mobile threats, the San Francisco company said Tuesday. The deal is part of Lookout's plan to build and offer security products for ...
Tags: Samsung, Smartphones, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
Freightliner Trucks—the official hauler of NASCAR—has launched its NASCAR weekend "Freightliner Hauler Challenge" Sweepstakes. Running September 1-28, 2013, the sweepstakes is part of the "Freightliner Hauler Challenge: Journey ...
Tags: Transportation, Trucks
Apple has revealed the date for the launch of its newest iPhone model as September 10th in an invite sent to members of the press. An invitation, emblazoned with the message "This should brighten everyone's day" features Apple's logo, ...
Tags: Apple, Computer Products
Samsung today unveiled a smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, and also a new version of its Note smartphone. The new devices were demonstrated to the media today at tech trade show IFA Berlin by the company's president Gregory Lee. Further ...
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Tech companies are hanging onto record amounts of cash, and industry watchers want to see more of it reinvested in the companies or distributed to shareholders. FactSet, a financial research firm, tallied all the cash and marketable ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, webservice
Mobile browsing continued to post gains last month at the expense of personal computers, a trend that has put Google into the second spot behind Microsoft as the browser maker with the longest reach, a Web metrics company said Sunday. ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products, Mobile service