NEC Casio's forthcoming Medias W Android smartphone has two 4.3-inch touch screens arranged back-to-back on a hinge. The screen on the rear of the handset folds out to lay next to the main one, forming a larger 5.6-inch touch screen, ...
Research In Motion’s (RIM) stock prices soared this week, following speculation, rumours and high hopes about the upcoming BlackBerry 10 launch next week. RIM’s stock price has been languishing in the $11-$12 range on the ...
IHS iSuppli said on Tuesday that the number of 4G LTE users will at least double by the end of 2013, growing by 115% to 198.1 million people worldwide. At the end of 2012, there were 92.3 million subscribers, iSuppli said. Many ...
Sony has expanded its portfolio of Android-based products with the Tablet Z, which is thinner and lighter than competing products from Apple and Google. This year tablet shipments are expected to total more than 240 million units ...
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The first mobile devices with Qualcomm’s new quad-core Snapdragon chip, which features an integrated modem, will be shown off later this month, the firm said on Monday. Device makers will show tablets and smartphones with the new ...
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Looking to converge its telecoms services, the UAE-based Du announced on Tuesday that it had partnered with Alcatel-Lucent to deploy the latest IP-routing technology. The move will eliminate the need for Du to manage multiple networks, ...
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Sony on Monday expanded its portfolio of Android-based products with the Tablet Z, which is thinner and lighter than competing products from Apple and Google. This year, tablet shipments are expected to total more than 240 million units ...
Tags: Sony, Xperia Tablet Z, Tablet
DAP Technologies is debuting its first Android computers this week at ProMat, the material handling and logistics industry's premier event. Rugged, lightweight and highly mobile, the M9705 tablet and the M4305 handheld are enterprise-ready ...
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Apple may be able to build a cut-rate iPhone for $144, which would let it price the device between $299 and $349, hundreds less than the unsubsidized price tag of its flagship smartphone, an analyst said today. A lower-cost iPhone would ...
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Softbank has sold off a large portion of a local carrier it acquired just weeks ago, as it looked to assuage fears over its expanded control of Japan's wireless spectrum. The company, which runs one of Japan's largest mobile operators, ...
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The world's largest consumer tech show last week was mostly about new ultra-high-definition TVs, with four times the pixel resolution of current 1080p HDTV, notebooks, phones, wireless headphones and speakers and thousands of accessory ...
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In response to the growing demand for high-speed mobile internet, HTC on Wednesday announced the UAE launch of the One SV smartphone, the first device in the HTC One family to feature 4G LTE technology. The firm said that the One SV was ...
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A satellite operator's proposal to offer an extra channel of Wi-Fi might actually give average Wi-Fi and Bluetooth users less bandwidth, according to some industry groups that have commented on the plan in filings to the FCC. The plan by ...
Tags: WiFi, satellite operator, Bluetooth
IDG News Service - Ericsson has agreed to transfer 1,922 patents and 263 patent applications to Unwired Planet in return for a share in ongoing revenue from the patents. The transfer includes 753 U.S. patents related to 2G, 3G and LTE ...
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If the International CES 2013 demonstrated anything, it's that we are going to need bigger, less expensive wireless networks to accommodate the wave of products, apps and services that were on display in Las Vegas. More than 150,000 ...
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