For its fiscal third-quarter 2012(ending 29 June),Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures linear products,power amplifiers,front-end modules and radio solutions for handset and infrastructure equipment)has reported ...
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Nokia shipped 10.2 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2012 – 39% less than the same period last year. The company reported its results for Q2 today, which revealed only four million of the 10 million handsets sold were ...
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Nokia has announced its second quarter results for 2012 - and they didn't make pleasant reading. A 19% drop in sales, a 39% fall in smartphone shipments and just four million Lumia devices shipped – compare with Apple, which sold 35 ...
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Mozilla rebranded its mobile operating system -- which it's been working on for more than a year -- as Firefox OS to tie it with its best-known product, the Firefox browser. Smartphones powered by the new Firefox OS will be manufactured ...
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To achieve higher download and upload speeds,vendors and operators are planning to use a number of different technologies over the coming years in both HSPA and LTE networks. At their core,many of these technologies are related to ...
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Motorola Solutions is buying Psion for$200m in a cash offer. London-based Psion has been a significant player in the mobile device market since the 1980s,having designed the first PDA.It was also a key partner in the development of the ...
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Kodak plans patent auction amid Apple row 14 Jun 2012 Apple opposes Kodak's plan to auction off more than 1000 patents relating to digital image capture,transmission and processing. Kodak cameras Bankrupt imaging giant Eastman Kodak is ...
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Nokia today confirmed it would be cutting another 10,000 people from its global workforce in an attempt to bring down costs. The struggling phone company will also close a number of its research and development sites across Germany and ...
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Nokia is to sell its UK-based Vertu,luxury mobile phone business,as part of major changes to its mobile business which will see 10,000 jobs go. Nokia has agreed terms for private equity group,EQT VI to acquireVertu which is headquartered ...
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4 June 2012 Handset RF device market to grow from$3.8bn to$5bn in 2016 As handset RF front ends(containing gallium arsenide)are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the 4G era,they cost$9-11 for 4G devices,which is twice that for 3G and ...
ST-Ericsson has had its modem/applications processor integrated chip NovaThor adopted by a smartphone called Coolpad launched by China Unicom and Yulong Telecommunications this week. ST-E has been looking to diversify its client base ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter 2012(to end-March),optical module and component maker Opnext Inc of Fremont,NJ,USA has reported revenue of$67.6m,up 27%on$53.1m last quarter.This was due mainly to revenue from 40Gbps-and-above products rising ...
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Foundation, an independent retailer based in Gloucestershire, has chosen Eurostop, a leading supplier to the fashion, footwear and lifestyle sectors, to design and implement its new online store. Foundation has recently launched its website ...
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Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners of the 2012 National Design Awards,which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines.The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Wednesday,Oct.17,at Pier Sixty ...
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Last December, Nokia, once the world's dominant mobile phone provider, unveiled its plans to dispose of "non-core assets" and signalled its intention to sell the luxury arm Vertu. The cellphone maker talks with private equity group Permira ...