You're not getting the best or the latest technology with Motorola's $179 Moto G smartphone. What you do get is a great price for something close. Motorola bills the Moto G as the phone for the rest of us—the ones who can't afford ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Intel is taking steps to acquire wireless assets in order to compete with chip rivals such as Qualcomm and Mellanox in the mobile device and data centre market. Intel on Monday announced that it had agreed to buy the wireless assets of ...
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In 2013 the Chinese LED packaging market has grown far quicker than the global average, reckons TrendForce's Green Energy Division LEDinside. LED lighting is still the largest application sector, accounting for 42% of the 2013 Chinese LED ...
Tags: LED, LED Packaging, Electrical, Electronics
Mobile carriers are opposed to the plan for a smartphone ‘kill switch’ that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen, claiming that it could be misused by hackers to block critical services. New York ...
Tags: Stolen Phones, 'Kill Switch'
Growth and clear profitability improvements in the fourth quarter Company targets further profitable growth on a comparable basis in 2014 Gross savings from Osram Push now expected at €1.2 billion Osram has fully achieved and ...
Rockstar, the group that bought Nortel's patents in 2011 following the company's bankruptcy, has taken aim at Google, HTC, Samsung and Huawi for alleged patent infringement. Google itself is accused of seven different counts of patent ...
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Belkin Corp., a maker of smartphone cases and computing accessories, aims to launch a product with annual sales volume of over one million units in the Chinese market firstly. Ben Thacker, vice president responsible for commercial ...
Tags: Belkin, Xiaomi, Consumer Electronics, cell phone
While Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia's smartphone division is potentially good news for Microsoft, the company needs to work on its branding issues if it's to start seeing greater success in the mobile hardware industry, a Gartner ...
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Homegrown Chinese mobile phone makers have seen a high-end chip supply shortage become a big obstacle on their expansion way. Gu Wenjun, a senior analyst with iSuppli, said in an interview recently that China imported USD 192 billion ...
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Troubled smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry can survive as a niche player in the mobile devices market, according to a member of the Canadian firm's board. In an interview published by The Wall Street Journal, newly elected BlackBerry ...
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Recent advances in the smartphone/handheld device technology have led to a boom in the mobile device manufacturing industry. It has also given rise to a situation of patent warfare, wherein each company operating in this segment is locked ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, Electrical, Electronics
China's telecoms regulator has recently added a touch of clarity to the confusion surrounding the future technological direction of the country's mobile market – a touch and nothing more. After months of speculation on when the ...
Tags: China's Telecos, 4G
The world’s love affair with smartphones continues to blaze. Between April and June, worldwide smartphone shipments grew by 52.3 percent compared to the same period in 2012, according to a new report by market research firm IDC. ...
Tags: Smartphone Market, Android-iOS
The Green Electronics Council plans to expand its EPEAT environmental rating system later this year to include smartphones, the council said Tuesday. The move could push phone makers to change the way they manufacture, package or ...
Tags: Mobile Phones, Computer Products, software
It is reported that demand for sapphire ingot becomes larger, even its demand exceeds supply, therefore its price soared in June, the average price rose from $ 3 per millimeter (mm) to $ 3.8 per mm, an growth of 20% just in a few weeks. ...
Tags: LED, LED backlight, Lighting