As rumours of a Microsoft in-house Windows 8 smartphone continue to rage,Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has been talking up"exclusivities"available to the Nokia phone range that Microsoft won't have access to. Talking to GigaOM,Elop said that the ...
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Google has added to its list of acquisitions with the$45m(£28m)purchase of Ukrainian company Viewdle,while at the same time closing a number of unpopular services that have failed to catch on. Viewdle is a developer of facial ...
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BT has unveiled an updated portfolio for BT One which includes Microsoft Lync and mobile applications. BT has added cloud services and high-definition video end points to its unified communications(UC)BT One portfolio. The ...
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According to the recently released Strategy Analytics and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service(GaAs)Forecast and Outlook'GaAs Industry Forecast:2011-2016',the overall gallium arsenide device market grew by 6%to a record$5.2bn in ...
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Some BlackBerry users are experiencing total service outage according to warnings issued by service provider Vodafone this morning. A RIM statement on Facebook reads, "We are currently experiencing a BlackBerry service issue impacting ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors)has received the Best Vendor and Outstanding Delivery awards from ZTE.??Skyworks has supported ZTE's RF business without a ...
Motorola Mobility has launched the MotorolaRAZR i smartphone which has a 2GHz Intel Atom as it media processor. Motorola RAZR i will be available in October in certain European markets including the UK,France and Germany. This is ...
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Technology giant Google has blocked hardware vendor Acer from producing a mobile phone running a variant of the Android operating system,claiming that it would excessively fragment the ecosystem. Acer had planned to produce a mobile phone ...
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Apple has unveiled the iPhone 5 with an updated version of its mobile operating system iOS 6. Apple announced the handset at an event in San Francisco,boasting a longer battery life thanks to Apple's A6 chip and a new 4 inch retina ...
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A souped-up version of the Galaxy S III from Samsung Electronics and Nokia's Lumia 920 and 820 are among the LTE smartphones that will go on sale in Europe during the fourth quarter. The availability of smartphones with LTE in Europe has ...
Chinese smartphone maker GooPhone has been showing off promotional videos of its upcoming GooPhone 5.But to anyone who has been keeping their eye on leaked prototypes of Apple's next iPhone handset,it may look eerily familiar. The ...
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The first smartphones to rely on Google's Chrome browser for Android will be Motorola Mobility's just-announced Droid Razr M, Droid Razr Maxx and Droid Razr HD, the company said Wednesday. The Droid Razr M, the only one of the trio that ...
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The ARM Cortex-A15 will be out in handsets by the end of the year,says Laurence Bryant,director of ARM's mobile solutions group. Asked if the problems with 28nm supply would affect that aspiration,Bryant replied:"From what I hear,there ...
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Nokia today revealed its latest flagship Lumia smartphone to the world,dubbed the Lumia 920,running Microsoft's upcoming mobile operating system(OS),Windows Phone 8. Despite looking much like its previous range of flagship mobiles,a raft ...
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Apple has asked a US court to ban sales of two more Samsung handsets, the Note and Galaxy S3, as part of its ongoing patent disputes around the world with its rival. In February, Apple applied for a ban on sales of 17 Samsung devices for ...
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