Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA says that MediaTek (a fabless semiconductor firm for wireless communications and digital multimedia) is using several Skyworks front-end solutions in its dual-core MT6572 ...
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HTC's second quarter net profit plummeted 83 percent year on year as sales of the company's latest flagship handset failed to meet expectations. The company reported net profit of NT$1.25 billion (US$41.6 million), down from NT$7.4 ...
Analyst concerns that Galaxy S4 smartphone sales are lagging sent Samsung's shares down 6% early Friday. Samsung's Galaxy S4 The decline in Samsung's stock follows analyst worries that a more affordable Galaxy S4 Mini or the rugged ...
Lenovo is in preliminary negotiations to start a joint venture with an unspecified party, the company said on Tuesday, setting off speculation that the company could be looking to bolster its expanding smartphone business. The Chinese PC ...
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MediaTek Inc., a leading fabless semiconductor company for wireless communications and digital multimedia solutions, today announced that Acer Inc. has selected MediaTek quad-core solutions to power its first "phablet", the Liquid S1, and ...
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Intel and Etisalat Misr, one of the leading telecom operators in Egypt, have announced the launch of the Middle East's first smartphone with Intel Inside – the new Etisalat E-20 smartphone. The Etisalat E-20 smartphone is said to be ...
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Nokia's sales of smartphones running Windows Phone continued to grow in the first quarter, and its net loss shrank year on year, even as overall revenue declined. The company reported first-quarter sales of a!5.85 billion (US$7.63 ...
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Hewlett-Packard's Ray Lane is giving up his role as chairman amid ongoing shareholder disapproval of HP's troubled Autonomy acquisition. Lane will remain on HP's board as a director but has given up his position as chairman, HP said ...
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Hewlett-Packard’s Ray Lane is giving up his role as chairman amid ongoing shareholder disapproval of HP’s troubled Autonomy acquisition. Lane will remain on HP’s board as a director but has given up his position as ...
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HTC's new One smartphone will arrive later than expected, and could lose any time-to-market advantage over Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S4 handset. The Taiwanese handset maker had originally planned to release its flagship smartphone ...
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They are probably the biggest cellphone makers most people have never heard of. Despite ranking third and fourth in the global smartphone market in the fourth quarter, mention Huawei and ZTE to many Americans or Europeans and you're likely ...
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Excite Japan Co., Ltd. announced today that it has launched the English optimized version of Android app "Japanese Translation" for Japanese-learning users worldwide. "Japanese Translation", which has been downloaded 1.7 million times in ...
Apple is falling behind in the smartphone market with its iPhone, according to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who thinks that the firm has allowed rivals such as Samsung to catch up. In an interview with German magazine Wirtschafts Woche ...
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Lenovo's CEO said sales of its Windows 8 PCs have been "normal", neither surpassing nor falling behind expectations, but added that PC-tablet convertible devices using the OS are helping the company break into the high-end segment for the ...
Lenovo's profit for its fiscal third quarter grew by 34% over last year, as the company also reported that its smartphone business in China had become profitable for the first time. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Lenovo's net profit ...
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