Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has announced significant ...
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ams AG (SIX: AMS), a designer and manufacturer of high-performance analog ICs for consumer and communications, industrial and medical and automotive applications, today introduced a new intelligent LED driver for mobile phone cameras that ...
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In yet another nod to the explosive growth of lighting technologies, Philips has announced the launch of software that will enable people to control lighting through their iOS devices - be it an iPad tablet computer or just their iPhone ...
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Saholic.com, Spice Group's e-commerce company, is providing theft insurance along with its mobile handsets, in an effort to enhance sales worldwide. Insurance will be provided by New India Assurance for a duration of one year, as reported ...
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The Android operating system has been cleared of patent infringement in a case brought by Nokia against Android smartphone maker HTC. Nokia on Friday lost two patent suits it brought against HTC in the District Court of Mannheim, Germany, ...
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Google is to make 1,200 more job cuts - around 10 per cent of its workforce - at Motorola Mobility, the mobile phone maker it acquired for $12.5bn (£7.7bn) in a protracted deal completed in May 2012. The job cuts are part of a ...
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A U.S. senator has proposed a bill that will allow consumers to unlock cellphones for use in other networks, after the administration of President Barack Obama backed over 114,000 petitioners who asked the government to legalize the ...
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China signaled it wants to reduce its dependence on Google's Android OS, alleging that the U.S. company has discriminated against local companies over the use of the mobile operating system. "Our country's mobile operating system research ...
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According to the IDC report released today, global smartphone sales will surpass feature phones, mainly because smartphone prices fall and 4G networks becomes widespread. IDC estimates that 2013 smart phones shipments will be 918.6 million, ...
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Samsung’s imminent Galaxy S4 smartphone will launch in six different models. Samsung has announced that it will unveil the Galaxy S4 smartphone in less than two weeks on 14 March in New York. Now we’ve heard that the flagship ...
General Dynamics is looking to bring U.S. government-level security to consumer smartphones, allowing organizations to benefit from the type of strong data protection only available on expensive and clunky mobile terminals. The company is ...
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Jo Harlow, Nokia’s executive, revealed to the media a few days ago that Nokia may push a full keyboard smartphone Windows Phone operating system. Nokia released Lumia 520 and Lumia 720 smartphones on the Mobile World Congress, ...
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Tablet phone is sweeping through the mobile world with lightning speed. On the 2013 Barcelona mobile pageant, handset manufacturers showed a series of large-screen smart phone, while new Tablet PC products significantly reduced. Some of ...
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Analysts today were skeptical that Mozilla's push into mobile with Firefox OS would meaningfully change the game. "The chances of Mozilla Firefox OS making good in mobile phones are about as good as WebOS making a comeback in ...
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AS smartphone giants Apple and Samsung battle for the wallets of tech-savvy youngsters, a growing number of manufacturers is trying to lure a fast-growing new market: their grandparents. Handset makers at the world's biggest mobile fair ...