Mozilla,the software firm behind the Firefox internet browser,has confirmed it's to enter the smartphone market later this year. Chinese mobile device manufacturer ZTE is among the firms Mozilla is working with,as the Firefox developer ...
Samsung's Exynos-branded quad-core processors have been deployed by two Chinese smartphone makers, Meizu and LePhone-maker Lenovo. Samsung Electronics is aiming to increase chip supply to more Chinese and other emerging smartphone ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which ...
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Samsung is expected to increase its market share in smartphones this year while Apple is cutting the price of its iPhone 5. Samsung's smartphone sales will grow by 35% to 290m units this year says Strategy Analytics, up from 215m units ...
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Zombie-like in its persistence,talk of a cheaper iPhone again shuffled into view this week,with sources as varied as the spotty DigiTimes to the more mainstream Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg claiming Apple will enter the low-price fray ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook met today with Xi Guohua,head of China Mobile,the world's largest wireless carrier,triggering speculation that the two firms will strike a deal this year. "We believe media reports of Tim's Cook meeting this week with ...
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Watch movies in the shower, capture HDR video, or just use it to make phone calls. Sony says it has something for everyone in its new Xperia Z smartphone, the company's flagship handset for 2013. The phone, which was unveiled on Monday at ...
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Intel executives plan to accelerate new mobile device experiences across the company’s growing portfolio of smartphone, tablet and Ultrabook offerings, it said at CES in Las Vegas this week. The announcements included a new ...
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Apple is developing a cheaper version of its iPhone, as it looks to expand its share of the smartphone market, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ said Apple could release this lower-end iPhone at some point in ...
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Samsung Electronics has revealed that it has made an estimated 8.8 trillion won (pound 5.1bn) in the last financial quarter ending December 2012. This puts the Korean company's sales at 500 devices per minute and, if accurate, represents ...
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Smartphone shipments will pass the one billion mark in a single calender year for the first time in 2013,while the number in use could reach two billion,suggests research by Deloitte analysts. The study,which defines smartphone as a ...
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Toshiba is developing a tiny digital camera module similar to the Lytro camera, which shoots tens of thousands of individual photos and then allows the user to pick the point of focus. The new camera will have from 30,000 to 50,000 tiny ...
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Smartphone manufacturer HTC is confident it can turn its fortunes around after a poor 2012. Shares in the Taiwanese firm have dropped by as much as 80 per cent since 2010, as sales of devices such as the HTC Desire have suffered at the ...
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IDG News Service - As a nine-person jury begins deliberations in the closely watched patent trial between Apple and Samsung, the companies and their lawyers are left waiting and wondering what the jury made of the three weeks of arguments. ...
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IDG News Service - Sony Mobile is laying off 1,000 employees and will also move its global HQ to Tokyo, as the company tries to turn around its dwindling fortunes in the smartphone space. The reorganization comes about six months after ...
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