British sales of Apple's iPhone 5S have seen it outsell its sister smartphone, the iPhone 5C, at a ratio of three to one, but Apple's overall share of the market is still smaller than it was this time last year. That's according to the ...
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When the current-generation Volkswagen Polo launched in Australia in mid 2010, it introduced levels of powertrain refinement, dynamic ability and interior sophistication never before seen in the city-car class. In the three and a half ...
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There's no shortage of laptop computers to pick from this holiday season, even for shoppers on tight budgets. A Chromebook optimized to run Google's Internet services can be bought for as little as $200, while a few hundred dollars more ...
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If your loved ones are looking for an easy way to watch Internet content on their big-screen TVs, Google's Chromecast ($35) is an inexpensive choice. Owners use their smartphones, tablets or computers as a remote control to tune in Netflix, ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has expanded its portfolio of antenna control solutions by unveiling its first impedance tuner. The programmable RF1105 functions as a tuner sub-system across all LTE frequency bands up to ...
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Telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd of Shenzhen, China has presented RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA with its Supplier of the Year Award for 2013. This is the second time in three years that RFMD has earned this ...
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Microsoft has admitted that it has too many operating systems and will no longer offer either Windows Phone, Windows 8 or Windows RT. Speaking at the UBS Global Technology Conference, Microsoft spoke about the effective failure of its ...
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Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
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Lenovo plans into Germany smartphone market in the near future. Since 2014, the third of the world's smartphone makers will sell smartphones to German, before it has to sell personal PC and laptop computers. Lenovo PC and notebook ...
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BlackBerry 10 users will be able to run Android apps directly on their smartphones when the company rolls out new features in the mobile operating system early next year. The feature will enable developers to easily re-purpose Android ...
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BlackBerry hopes to make it easier for Android applications to run on its latest smartphones. A recent upgrade to its developer tools has attempted to reduce the amount of work required to get an Android app working on the BlackBerry 10 ...
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Apple has won another chance to bid for an injunction against Samsung Phones by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a move that suggests the iPhone and iPad producer is "running scared" of Samsung, its main ...
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The number of 4G LTE connections worldwide will pass the one billion mark by 2017, according to a study by research firm GSMA Intelligence. GSMA Intelligence is a branch of the GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators ...
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BlackBerry's chief operating officer, Kristian Tear, and chief marketing officer, Frank Boulben, have both left the company with immediate effect, while chief financial officer Brian Bidulka will leave at the end of the financial year, the ...
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BlackBerry has continued its clear out of top level staff by removing COO, Kristian Tear, and CMO Frank Boulben. Interim CEO, John Chen, who was appointed on November 4 after the ousting of Thorsten Heins, hasn’t hesitated to pull ...