The latest round in Apple and Samsung's bitter global battle for supremacy in the more than $300 billion smartphone market begins Tuesday in a courtroom a few miles from Apple's Silicon Valley headquarters. In courts, government tribunals ...
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Following a meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer, an analyst believes that we can expect to see an increase in the frequency of iPhone releases from 2014. In a note to investors sent out on Wednesday, Morgan Stanley ...
Devices running Google’s Android operating system accounted for 81% of all smartphones sold worldwide in the third quarter of 2013, according to a study released today by IDC. Of the more than 261 million units shipped, just under ...
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IBM yesterday announced an agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, saying the purchase is a key part of a broader mobile-security strategy to provide assurance in transactions conducted via devices such as iPhones and Android ...
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Apple’s global marketing chief has told a court how his firm’s job became much tougher after Samsung launched its own smartphones with a similar design. Schiller told an eight-person jury that Samsung’s infringement of ...
Reasons behind Apple’s heavy investments in GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) sapphire substrates go beyond iPhone component demands, according to a TechCrunch report. Aside from home buttons and camera lens cover demands, the sapphire ...
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US-based crystal growth solution and equipment provider GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) has announced that Apple will pre-pay US$578 million to secure sapphire supply. GTAT will be able to use the funds to set up additional sapphire ...
Tags: Apple Funding, iPhone Screen
After selling out of the iPhone 5s and suggesting that the iPad mini 2 will be in short supply when it’s released later this month, it looks like Apple is working to boost production of its iPhones and iPads by adding new ...
US Cellular subscribers can now purchase the new iPhones. The carrier, which launched the phones on Friday, is offering the iPhone 5S in all capacities from 16GB to 32GB to 64GB and in all colors from silver to gold to space gray. The 5C ...
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The new iPhones have apparently convinced only a small percentage of iPhone 5 owners to upgrade. Polling 400 US phone customers that activated an iPhone between September 20 and October 20, research firm CIRP found that only 6 percent of ...
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An earlier report by Women Citizen projecting Apple’s smartphone dominance is to be challenged by Samsung’s AMOLED technology has been proven wrong by a recent Bloomberg report. Apple has no intention of being left behind by ...
Tags: Apple, OLED smartphones
Kingsun LED Lights (Kingsun) has signed a LiFi communication and positioning system partnership agreement with Beijing Tsinghua University in May 2013, according to a company post on Chinese social media website Weibo. The company has ...
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Apple have revealed the amount of user information that governments have requested from the California giant, as it?sought to set itself apart from Silicon Valley competitors whose businesses are built on amassing personal data. Apple ...
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BlackBerry's dramatic fall in the enterprise has left CIOs scrambling to pick a new mobile platform provider. Will it be Apple? Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or it will be all of the above. "The entire landscape has shifted in a very short ...
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The Ministry of Commerce said China strongly opposes disclosure of an interim World Trade Organization report that disfavors the nation's claim in its rare earths disputes with other countries. "The case is under panel examination, which ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Rare Earth