Broadcom thinks it can make NFC a common smartphone feature by offering it in a chip with other wireless technologies, even if making payments with the technology doesn’t catch on for years. On Tuesday, the communications chip ...
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Google and LG are reportedly preparing to launch a Nexus smartphone modelled on the Optimus G. Like the Optimus G, the still-to-be-named new Nexus handset will be one of the first quad-core smartphones on the U.S. market when it ...
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In third-quarter 2012,global mobile phone market shipments were 444.5 million mobile phones,up 2.4%on 434.1 million units in Q3/2011,according to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker of market research firm International Data ...
Computer technology accounted for more patent applications in recent years than any other industry sector tracked by the World Intellectual Property Organization, although the number of digital communication patent applications grew faster. ...
Exynos 4 Quad is built on the High-k Metal Gate low-power process technology Samsung Electronics has introduced Exynos 4 Quad, a new quad-core application processor built on the High-k Metal Gate (HKMG) low-power process technology. The ...
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Samsung has improved its market lead over rival "smart connected device" manufacturer Apple, according to an IDC report. The Korean firm saw its share of the PC, tablet and smartphone market grow by 27 per cent year-on-year in the third ...
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For third-quarter 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported net sales of $28.6m, down 23.1% on $37.3m a year ago but up 14.1% on $25.1m last quarter. ...
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AT&T* today announced the Samsung Galaxy Camera, the 4G connected camera, will be available for customers beginning Nov. 16 for $499.99.2 For a limited time, AT&T customers will receive up to $100 off the purchase of a second Samsung Galaxy ...
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The combination smartphone-tablet Samsung Galaxy Note II has proven more popular than analysts had expected. Samsung has sold 5 million of the so-called"phablet"mobile devices worldwide in two months,the South Korean company said in a ...
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Apple is seeking to add six Samsung products in a patent infringement lawsuit between the electronic giants scheduled to start in U.S.District Court for the Northern District of California in March 2014. The motion,filed Friday,asked ...
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Samsung has filed a patent invalidation lawsuit against LG in an intellectual property (IP) tribunal in their homeland.The former now asks the tribunal to invalidate several LG OLED patents and consequently drop the patent infringement ...
With just over a month until Christmas, 57 percent of consumers (and 65 percent of men) have yet to begin shopping, mostly because they think they have plenty of time, according to the latest Consumer Reports Holiday Poll. However, in yet ...
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IDG News Service - A court in California has allowed Samsung Electronics to include Apple's iPhone 5 among the products alleged to have infringed its patents, while also allowing Apple to amend its infringement contentions to include the ...
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AT&T announced general availability of its Enhanced Push-to-Talk service on Tuesday,taking on Sprint's Direct Connect Now app as the carriers vie to attract users of the fading Nextel network. Nextel pioneered push-to-talk(PTT)long before ...
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IDG News Service-HTC and Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced the Droid DNA smartphone,which comes with Android 4.1 and a 5-inch high-definition display that the company said is the most advanced in the market today. The Droid DNA ...
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