IDG News Service - Apple, Research in Motion (RIM) and Motorola Mobility are among 15 companies sued in the U.S. over a fundamental 3G and 4G patent on determining when devices should switch cells in a mobile network. The suits were filed ...
Tags: Apple, RIM, US telcos, mobile network
Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company. Google has also agreed to ...
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Google Android was the top smartphone platform with 53.7% share Samsung was reported as the handset manufacturer with the highest market share of 26.9%, an increase of 1.2% compared to August 2012. It was followed by Apple and LG, which ...
Tags: Google Android, smartphone platform, Samsung, November, 2012
With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, ...
Tags: CES Show, new products, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, smart apps
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will host a press conference Thursday afternoon to discussion its investigation of Google for antitrust violations. The FTC press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz ...
Tags: U.S., FTC, investigation, Google, antitrust violations
IDG News Service-China's largest search engine Baidu said on Monday the company would provide 30GB of free cloud storage to Android devices built with certain Qualcomm chips,in what's the latest move by the company to carve out a presence ...
Tags: Baidu, free cloud storage, qualcomm chip-based devices
Chinese handset maker ZTE showed off a new high-end phone on Wednesday. The Z5 has a 5-inch screen, a 13-megapixel camera and a quad-core processor. The Z5 is part ZTE's new line of Nubia devices, according to the company's official ...
Tags: ZTE, Z5, Chinese, smartphone, unveil
Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. The company plans to market the OS to smartphone handset ...
Tags: Smartphones, phone, Computer Products
Oracle will introduce on Tuesday a version of embedded Java intended to boost the platform's prominence in the realm of networked devices. The company also will roll out a middleware stack geared for the embedded world. With the Oracle ...
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Japan's Elecom said Tuesday it will launch the world's first smartphone keyboard that uses NFC touch-card technology to link with Android handsets. The keyboard is designed with a large gap down its middle in which a phone is placed ...
Tags: Smartphone, keyboard, touch card, Computer Products
PC World-If there were any doubts that Samsung's Galaxy S III is the hottest smartphone in the Android world,the latest sales figures for the handset should put those doubts to rest. In the just two months,the Samsung smartphone has ...
After recovering strongly from 2009 with growth of 22% in 2010, the gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate market slowed sharply in 2011, rising just 4% to nearly $360m, due to weak demand in RF circuits (handsets and WLANs) and in ...
IDG News Service - Japan's Softbank said Monday it has reached a deal to acquire a 70% stake in U.S. mobile operator Sprint Nextel for $20 billion, forming one of the world's largest telecom operators. The companies said the deal would ...
Tags: Softbank, telecom operators, network, network speeds
It looks like the iPhone will finally be coming to T-Mobile USA. Deutsche Telekom, the German parent of the only major U.S. wireless carrier not to offer the iPhone, says it has a deal to begin selling Apple devices in the U.S. in 2013. ...
Computerworld - Sprint today denied that subscribers of its Virgin Mobile subsidiary were wide open to account hijacking attacks as claimed by an independent software developer this week. In emailed comments, Sprint spokeswoman Stephanie ...