IDG News Service-Nokia Siemens Networks is selling off its second business unit in less than a week,and has announced the closure of another,as it focuses on its more profitable mobile broadband networking activities. Canadian company ...
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Nokia Siemens Networks is selling its optical networking business unit to private investment firm Marlin Equity Partners, the latest in a series of sell-offs as the vendor concentrates on mobile broadband networks. The two companies ...
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Computerworld-More than half of next year's expected 5.7%increase in global IT spending will be driven by sales of smartphones,tablets and e-readers,IDC said in a forecast published Friday. IDC projects that mobile device sales will make ...
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Glassware veteran Corning (NYSE: GLW ) has fallen on hard times lately. Is it time to give up on the stock, or will Corning have a banana and a comeback? The stock has lost 18% of its value in just over a month. The slide was punctuated ...
A touchpad tablet and a smartphone have been launched by the Congolese company, VMK, and claim to be the first African designs on the market. The Way-C touchpad and Elikia smartphone, which are manufactured in China, were designed by the ...
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Wintek Corp., a Taiwanese supplier of touch panels, cooperates with Quanta Computer to fill orders for Win8 products from brand vendors including HP, Dell, and Lenovo for the first time; along with growing design projects with Nokia, ...
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Nokia continues to expand its line-up of advanced feature phones with the Asha 205,with a dedicated Facebook button allowing users to more easily access the social networking site. While Nokia is trying to revive its fortunes in the ...
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Jolla,the mobile operating system start-up founded by Nokia refugees,has finally unveiled Sailfish,the smartphone operating system based on Linux. The company had been in"stealth mode"for almost a year before it launched in the summer,and ...
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Microsoft's new mobile operating systems have been affected by a series of glitches that has had users complaining online – and some returning their devices to retailers and mobile telecoms companies for a refund. The most serious ...
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Nokia dropped to seventh place in the global smartphone market in the third quarter,as Samsung and Apple controlled 46.5%of the market,Gartner said today. Nokia had a"particularly bad quarter"with smartphones,selling 7.2 million,Gartner ...
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Microsoft will begin running four new TV ads for Windows Phone 8 tonight,featuring celebrities Jessica Alba and Gwen Stefani and the live tiles interface in the new devices. The main point of the 30-second spots posted on YouTube ...
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A jury in the US state of Delaware has found that Apple's iPhone infringes three patents that are held by patent-licencing firm MobileMedia Ideas. The firm holds patents for struggling Japanese giant Sony and Nokia,among others. Further ...
Cisco Systems plans to build small cellular base stations,building upon its fast-growing business in Wi-Fi base stations for mobile operator networks,Chairman and CEO John Chambers said on Tuesday. The move will bring the networking giant ...
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IDG News Service-Nokia plans an ambitious expansion of its mapping and location-based services platform beyond its own smartphones to competing devices running OSes other than Windows Phone 8,it said Tuesday. The move is being backed with ...
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IDG News Service-Nokia Siemens Networks and Ballard Power Systems want methanol-powered fuel cells to keep mobile networks running in the event of an electricity outage and are working with NTT DoCoMo to test the technology. The need for ...
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