China's telecoms regulator has recently added a touch of clarity to the confusion surrounding the future technological direction of the country's mobile market – a touch and nothing more. After months of speculation on when the ...
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Canalys has published its final second-quarter-2013 smartphone shipment estimates by vendor for the 50-plus countries that it tracks. Some 238.1 million units shipped in the second quarter, an impressive 50% on-year increase. And while ...
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Busch is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The company was founded in 1963 in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany, and today it is one of the largest international companies in the field of vacuum and overpressure technology in numerous ...
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An overview of the barcode label Barcodes are commonly presented as a self adhesive barcode label, and can be found on almost every consumer item sold in retail outlets across the world. We rarely go for a single moment without sighting a ...
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Mobile network O2 has announced that its 4G service will launch in the UK on 29 August. The new network, which it claims will be up to five times faster than 3G, will be switched on in London, Leeds and Bradford first, followed by a ...
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Google has announced that it will be releasing its new mid-range smartphone, the Moto X, in the US, Canada and Latin America around the end of August or early September. Manufactured in newly-built facilities in Texas, the Moto X will be ...
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NEC will introduce no new smartphones, and will make current models only to order, as it struggles to find the economies of scale required to compete in the market. The Japanese company is ending the development, manufacturing and sale of ...
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Researchers showed a Black Hat audience how femotcell technology, used by phone companies to boost cell phone coverage, can be hacked to intercept cell phone calls, text messages and other data. Tom Ritter and Doug DePerry , researchers ...
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Of the top-selling smartphones in the U.S. in the past year, customers ranked two Samsung smartphones higher than the last three Apple iPhone models. The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Wednesday, ranked both the ...
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China's popular Xiaomi smartphone company is diving into the country's low-end handset market with a new product, taking note of the rumors that Apple is preparing its own budget iPhone. On Wednesday, Xiaomi unveiled its new "Red Rice" ...
Tags: Xiaomi, Rumored Budget iPhone
Warrants are not required by the U.S. government to access historical cell site information, an appeals court ruled in an order. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects only reasonable expectations of privacy, the U.S. ...
Microsoft today released a stripped-down version of Office for Android smartphones, continuing its strategy of tying its mobile suite to the Office 365 rent-not-buy subscription plans. Wednesday's launch of Office Mobile for Android ...
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Samsung is positioning itself to be one of the first handset vendors to tap into China's upcoming market for 4G services by introducing new Galaxy S4 phones capable of operating on both FDD and TDD LTE networks. The South Korean company ...
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Facebook turned on a key security feature by default on Wednesday that scrambles data sent by users to the company's servers, following similar moves in recent years by Web services such as Google and Twitter. Two years ago, the social ...
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Google's Motorola Mobility unit unveiled the highly anticipated Moto X smartphone on Thursday at an event themed around innovation, but many of the handset's highlighted features were similar to those on the recently announced Droid ...
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