Businesses are increasingly taking advantage of the economic and political benefits of setting up operations in Malaysia, whether to gain access to a highly skilled but lower-cost workforce to support global operations, or as a stepping ...
Tags: Malaysia, BP, IT Initiative, Multimedia Super Corridor
The Lumia 510 is Nokia's new entry-level Windows Phone, priced at about $199 excluding taxes and subsidies and due to be released in November, the company said on Tuesday. The smartphone has a 4-inch screen with a 800-by-480 pixel ...
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Microsoft Tuesday began delivering an update to Windows Phone 8 smartphones that provides unspecified "performance enhancements" that some customers say include an OS fix for random reboots and Wi-Fi enhancements. A spokeswoman said ...
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More than 17,600 users in U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) are being moved from their BlackBerry devices to Apple's iPhone, after it was found that technology from Research In Motion cannot meet the mobile technology needs of ...
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Boston-area Starbucks stores are the first in the nation to take part in a pilot program of Duracell's Powermat wireless charging technology. Seventeen stores in Boston and neighboring Cambridge are included in the wireless charging ...
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Texas Instruments Wednesday unveiled its first single-stage wireless charging integrated chip (IC). TI said the new IC is 60% smaller than its predecessors. The company today also added a power controller chip that it said increases the ...
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AT&T is on pace to sell a record number of smartphones in the fourth quarter, with strong sales of the iPhone 5 and Android phones such as the LG Optimus G and HTC One X, AT&T Mobile CEO Ralph de la Vega said today. AT&T sold 6.4 million ...
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Computerworld - Google's decision to cut 20% of the workers from its Motorola Mobility unit re-ignited fears that Google was primarily after the 17,000 patents Motorola held when it was acquired in May. "Everyone at Motorola is asking [if ...
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Computerworld - Imagine sitting down at work, plopping a mobile device on the desk and having it wirelessly charge itself while, at the same time, synchronizing new data to your PC. In that world, one could also wirelessly charge a phone ...
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Smartphone shipments to retailers worldwide this year are expected to total 717 million, 45% more than shipped in 2011, IDC said Tuesday. The positive news for smartphones is countered by IDC's projection of just a small increase -- 1.4% ...
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Nokia's Lumia smartphones struggled to lift the Finnish handset provider's market share in China, while domestic vendors ZTE, Huawei Technologies and Lenovo overtook Apple in smartphone shipments in the second quarter, according to research ...
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A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed an order by the U.S. International Trade Commission that ruled that Nokia did not infringe two wireless cellular patents of InterDigital Technology Corporation. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...
In some ways, the iPhone 5 is a significant technological step up over its predecessor with its two times faster A6 processor, longer battery life, larger scratch-proof sapphire glass lens cover, and LTE network support. So why no wireless ...
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Global LTE smartphone shipments will triple from 90.9 million units in 2012 to 275 million in 2013, yielding a record year for 4G technology, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. "Major countries driving LTE growth next ...
Tags: Strategy Analytics LTE, smartphone, Multiple operators, Verizon Wireless
Three U.S.-based service providers that use equipment from Huawei Technologies said on Tuesday they take strong precautions to ensure the security of their networks, responding to a congressional report on Monday that said carriers should ...
Tags: Huawei Technologies, precautions, security, networks, Huawei, ZTE