The Chinese media have accused Apple of treating the nation's consumers as second-class citizens over its policy for replacing or repairing damaged iPhones under warranty. While Apple insists that its policies are broadly equivalent ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has personally apologised, on behalf of the company, to Chinese customers after last week's widespread accusations of "arrogance" concerning its warranty policies. Complaints included the length of an Apple warranty in ...
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BlackBerry has received an order for one million Z10 smartphones, the largest single order in the company's history, significantly boosting shares in the firm which described the deal as a "tremendous vote of confidence." The ...
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Renesas will decide whether to sell its mobile chip division during the course of this year, says the company. Selling a mobile chip division is easier said than done. First of all no sane person wants to get into a market where ...
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A judge in California has ruled that a patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Samsung Electronics will continue, after indicating earlier that she would like to put the case on hold pending resolution of an appeal in another patent ...
Samsung is to release its Galaxy S4 smartphone at an event in New York this week, a move that could see it beat Apple's iPhone 5 in terms of both sales and technology. The once dazzling Apple brand has been tarnished in recent months by a ...
A judge has ordered a partial retrial in Apple’s patent lawsuit against Samsung in California, and has cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the US$1 billion in damages Apple was awarded last summer. Judge Lucy Koh, in an order ...
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The patent trial in Australia between Apple and Samsung Electronics has become so complex that a second judge has been assigned to the case. It's the first time in Australian federal court history that two judges will hear a case at the ...
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HTC has declared the end of megapixels with its new One smartphone, which has a 4.7-inch screen and a redesigned camera that can capture sharper images. The smartphone has an ultra-pixel camera that takes photographs at a rate of eight ...
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Nvidia hopes to power sub-$200 smartphones and tablets under $300 with its latest Tegra 4i processor, which is also the company's first chip with an integrated LTE modem. The quad-core Tegra 4i will be used by device makers in LTE-capable ...
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The judge overseeing Apple's two lawsuits against Samsung in California has indicated she would like to put the second case on hold pending resolution of the first case, the trial for which ended last summer with a big win for Apple. "Do ...
Huawei is now the world's third biggest smartphone maker after a strong fourth quarter, according to Gartner. Should the UK share US fears over Chinese tech firms? Apple iOS watch with smartphone features reportedly in development ...
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Wireless will lead IC spending this year growing by 13.5% to $69.6 billion, says IHS. Of the other six major IC application areas, five will show growth of up to 6.5% and one will decline 1.7%. Total semiconductor spending will rise ...
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A US appeals court has refused to reconsider an appeal from Apple that sought a ban on Google-branded Samsung smartphones. As part of a series of legal battles in the case, the US Federal Appeals Court panel in Washington rejected ...
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Apple and Samsung Electronics led the tablet market in the fourth quarter of 2012, but new entrant Microsoft did not make it to the top five with its Surface tablet. The market share of Apple also continued to drop in the quarter, IDC ...
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