Viber, the leading mobile communications platform offering free text and photo messages and HD-quality phone calls, announces today that it has passed the 140 million users milestone with 400,000 users being added every day. The ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has agreed to acquire the Kopin Wireless compound semiconductor epiwafer manufacturing division of Kopin Corp of Taunton, MA, USA (including its leased manufacturing ...
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DAP Technologies is introducing its MT1010 rugged tablet, a lightweight tablet, in direct response to enterprise's top demands for a Windows® operating system that integrates into existing networks. The MT1010's rugged ...
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Getting all electronic devices,from cars to LED lights,connected to the web is important if we are to create the Internet of Things,says Rick Clemmer,CEO,NXP Semiconductors. As the rise of online and mobile communications has enabled ...
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HTC has launched the Desire X smartphone, which has integrated cloud storage and a camera that can shoot video and take pictures at the same time, the company said on Thursday. Based on Android 4.0, the Desire X is powered by a 1GHz ...
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IDG News Service - Sony Mobile is laying off 1,000 employees and will also move its global HQ to Tokyo, as the company tries to turn around its dwindling fortunes in the smartphone space. The reorganization comes about six months after ...
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Sony said Thursday that hackers accessed about 400 names and email addresses of its mobile customers in China, but that no credit card or banking information was compromised. The company said it became aware of the hack several days after ...
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Internet and mobile communications were shut down on Thursday morning in war-torn Syria. Renesys Corp., a global Internet monitoring firm, earlier today reported a "major outage" in Syria, and added that a kill switch had been thrown ...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will begin a pilot deployment of smartphones running Research In Motion's new BlackBerry 10 OS early next year. The deal, announced Thursday, is the first major U.S. government agreement ...
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Huawei has announced its collaboration with SELEX Elsag, a company within the Finmeccanica group, for the construction of the first railway line in the United Arab Emirates, that will be completed by the end of 2014. Huawei, a leading ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung's efforts to seek injunctions against Apple for standards-essential patents in the mobile phone market may be an abuse of its dominant position and a violation of European Union antitrust rules,the European ...
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iQsim, the leading manufacturer of SIM Server platform and Wireless Gateways, announces today it has acquired QuesCom, a leading provider of fixed-mobile convergence appliances. With this acquisition, iQsim will accelerate its development ...
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Samsung has announced that net profit nearly doubled in the third quarter on strong sales of its Galaxy S III and Note 2, which also boosted results in its component business. The world’s largest maker of mobile handsets said net ...
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Samsung dropped all claims pending in European courts in which it asserted patents that are essential for mobile communication devices to prevent the sales of Apple products in Europe. The injunction requests against Apple,which aimed to ...
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Samsung Electronics said today that net profit nearly doubled in the third quarter on strong sales of its Galaxy S III and Note 2, which also boosted results in its component business. The world’s largest maker of mobile handsets ...
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