Organic, cage-free or home-grown? We think about our purchasing ethics in many areas of daily life, but not often about technology. As with any product, though, we should think about the effects of our actions on workers and the ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Phone
It's likely the world in the not-so-distant future will be increasingly populated by computerized people like Amal Graafstra. The 37-year-old doesn't need a key or password to get into his car, home or computer. He's programmed them to ...
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Vietnam's economy grew more than analysts estimated as exports climbed,even as banks struggled to meet the government's lending target. Gross domestic product rose 6.04 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier,according to data ...
I find giant phones hard to carry and use, but I'm well aware that many people like the bigger images and text they offer. These so-called phablets, with screens measuring about 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) diagonally, are nearly as big ...
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People are taking more photographs than ever before, nearly 400 billion this year, yet sales of cameras are shrinking. Overall, global shipments of digital cameras have fallen 30 percent this year, according to Christopher Chute, research ...
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Engineers who used to work for Nokia are hoping to grab a share of the lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market with a new handset, which is based on the former world No. 1 cellphone maker's old software and is faintly reminiscent ...
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The U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled against InterDigital in a complaint that alleged Huawei, Nokia and ZTE had infringed the company’s patents. On Thursday, the ITC upheld a previous ruling in June that found ...
Tags: Huawei, ZTE, Nokia, Patent Dispute
Samsung has overtaken Apple to become the largest mobile phone company in the world, providing users with the leading smart phones priced over $900 to basic phones priced under $150. However, the demand for high-end smart phones is ...
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\ Samsung has announced plans to merge its smartphone and camera divisions, according to Korean news station ETNews. It has reorganised the divisions so that the two are essentially one and the same. Samsung Electronics said, ”We ...
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Microsoft is to invest €170m (£141m) to expand its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) data centre in Dublin, Ireland. The expansion is scheduled to be completed by spring 2014, and will create 380 construction jobs and 20 ...
Antitrust regulators in the US have approved Microsoft's $7bn (£4.6bn) acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. The deal, announced in September, sees Microsoft take ownership of Nokia's Devices and Services business, which ...
Transport for London (TfL) has overseen a rise of more than 500 per cent in its employees' use of mobile phones and tablets under its bring your own device (BYOD) scheme over the past three years. Official figures obtained under the ...
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Microsoft's version of Windows for ARM-based devices, Windows RT, is being lined up for the chop, after Microsoft executive Julie Larson-Green admitted that three different versions of the Windows operating system was one too many. ...
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has used the company's annual shareholder meeting in Bellevue, Washington to highlight the "complex" requirements that need to be addressed as the firm attempts to find a new CEO for only the second time in its ...
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A manufacturer of glass coverings for Apple is drawing accusations of worker exploitation from Hong Kong labour groups concerned with several employee suicides at its factory in China. Hong Kong-based Biel Crystal Manufactory Limited is a ...
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