Spanish operator Telefonica is worried about the Android-iOS smartphone duopoly, and has joined with Microsoft in a marketing blitz that it hopes will convince consumers to pick up smartphones based on Windows Phone. For one year, ...
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Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop (R) stands with Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, during the launch of a new Nokia Lumia phone. Source: AFP Microsoft was in talks to boost its position in the mobile phone market by buying ...
Samsung plans to begin selling a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone capable of supporting LTE-Advanced 4G networks -- which offer download speeds that are twice as fast as LTE -- in South Korea this month. No U.S. wireless carrier is ...
In its latest report ‘Global and China GaAs Industry Report, 2012-2013’ market analayst firm Research In China summarizes that in first-half 2013 the biggest news in the gallium arsenide industry was Qualcomm’s ...
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Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world's most-used mobile platforms. The rapid and stark decline of Symbian serves as a warning about ...
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With smart-phone theft reaching epidemic proportions, a coalition of more than 50 law enforcement agencies, scholars, consumer advocates—including Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports—and others is demanding ...
Mozilla has signed on Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, to support its Firefox operating system in cellphones. The Firefox OS is built on the HTML5 web standard and Mozilla is setting it up to compete with ...
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Microsoft is making a big play for the living room with a new Xbox console that marries games with live TV, Internet browsing, music and Skype. The Xbox One could considerably expand Microsoft's presence in consumer electronics but is ...
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LAST night's midnight premiere of Star Trek into Darkness confirms the cult of the USS Enterprise thrives 47 years after the first TV episodes aired. Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the crew have indeed managed to "live long and prosper" - ...
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The worldwide mobile phone market grew 4% year-on-year in the seasonally slow first quarter of 2013 as smartphones outshipped feature phones for the first time, according to the International Data Corp (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone ...
Google has lost yet another intellectual property case after a court in Microsoft's home city of Seattle ruled largely in its favour in a patent case. US District Judge James Robart ruled that Microsoft owed Google just $1.8m ...
Samsung struck again today, announcing two even bigger Galaxy Mega smartphones with 5.8-in. and 6.3-in. LCD HD screens. The Mega 5.8 and the Mega 6.3 both run Android 4.2 and will ship globally, starting in Europe and Russia in May, ...
BlackBerry will have to work harder to get the word out about its new BlackBerry 10 operating system and smartphones, if a research firm's findings are any indicator. In a survey of 1,500 U.S. consumers by MKM partners, 82.6 percent said ...
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The HTC First smartphone will have native support for Facebook Home when it ships on AT&T April 12. Some analysts wonder how soon -- or whether -- native support for the app will be added to more smartphones. Given Facebook's enormous ...
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Want to improve the high-quality photos and videos you've taken on your phone? Chances are your smart phone has video-editing tools built right in that can help you craft a polished video that's easily shared. Apple took the first step ...
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