Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company does not plan to create a Facebook-branded smartphone during a conference call with financial analysts and reporters this week. Building a phone, he said, "wouldn't really make much sense for ...
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Taipei, Dec. 21, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan's exports orders topped US$40.73 billion in November, beating expectation and hitting record high, a performance which enabled the total amount of exports orders in the first 11 months to grow 0.4% ...
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Japanese car maker Toyota is planning to launch a system in its vehicles that allows charging smartphone, while driving through the use of a wireless mat. The new Qi Wireless In-Car Charging system will be offered for Qi-enabled mobile ...
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Demandware Inc announced its new Multichannel Commerce Solution, a comprehensive and prescriptive framework that enables high-growth retailers to extend the power of digital commerce to point-of-sale, kiosks, smart phones, tablets and other ...
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HTC said Wednesday it will launch a new smartphone with a full-HD 5-inch screen in the Japanese market from December. The screen, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, at 440 pixels per inch (ppi), is the main attraction of the HTC J ...
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Yahoo's new CEO, Marissa Mayer, is expected to unveil her plan to turn around the ailing Internet company on Tuesday. Industry analysts say it's time for Mayer, who joined Yahoo in July, to lay out a vision for the company's future that ...
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In 2001, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan's dominant telecom provider, got a shock. It had just started DSL broadband Internet service and was taking its first steps toward reaping the benefits of an ambitious and costly plan to string ...
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A panel of mobile wallet experts predicted a slow pathway to user adoption of technologies such as Near-Field Communication in the U.S. In fact, widespread adoption will take as long as eight years "at best," Dekkers Davidson, the head of ...
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Allowing employees to bring their own devices to work is causing new challenges, including what happens when a device needs to be wiped or employees want to sell their smartphone or tablet. Mobile security and BYOD (bring your own device) ...
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Rapid Protect [TM], a leading mobile solutions company based in NJ, is continuing its innovation in the mobile app field. It recently announced availability of Full Rapid Tracker application on J2ME non-smart feature phones and did major ...
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The Federal Aviation Administration is reassessing its rules about the use of portable electronic devices on airplanes, seeking public comments and forming a government-industry group to study when the devices can be used safely. ...
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Twitter has restricted the ability of attackers to post tweets and perform other actions on behalf of many users who have phone numbers associated with their accounts, but some users need to enable a PIN option in order to be protected. ...
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Qualcomm is preparing two new quad-core processors for the mainstream smartphone market, with support for several Chinese standards. The U.S. chipmaker said it will release the two new CPUs, designed for 3G networks, to its Snapdragon ...
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Nokia cut the price of the Lumia 900 smartphone in half, to $49.99, less than four months after the device went on sale at AT&T. The Finnish phone maker said the price cut, which first appeared over the weekend, was a "normal strategy" ...
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Consumers worldwide are projected to spend some spend $2.1 trillion in 2012 on digital information and entertainment products, such as mobile phones, computing equipment, digital media and services, according to Gartner. The Gartner ...
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