South Korean firm Samsung is to buy a three per cent stake in its Japanese rival Sharp for 10.4bn yen (£73m). Sharp has been struggling to restructure its operations as it continues to make losses; the firm has forecast its biggest ...
According to brightwire.com who translated the China Times and Taiwan-based commercial times there might be a device by the name iPhone Math that could feature 4.8 inch display with 8 megapixel camera. For Atlanta cell phone repair ...
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Visa's payWave mobile payment applet will be embedded in next-generation Samsung smartphones and tablets enabled with NFC, according to an alliance that both Visa and Samsung announced Monday. The next-generation Samsung Galaxy S IV, ...
Sony's Xperia Tablet Z will go on sale globally in the second quarter, priced from$499in the U.S. The 10-inch tablet will be just 6.9 millimeters thick, with an 1,920 by 1,200 pixel HD screen and a new quad core processor from Qualcomm, ...
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Huawei Technologies has expanded its device portfolio with the LTE-equipped Ascend P2 as the company hopes to climb upwards in the smartphone market. The phone supports the latest version of the high-speed LTE data networking system ...
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HTC and Nokia are separately expected to announce super-high-quality cameras in new smartphones expected to be unveiled over the next week. It remains unclear whether the new cameras alone can lure new customers to either smartphone ...
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Huawei is now the world's third biggest smartphone maker after a strong fourth quarter, according to Gartner. Should the UK share US fears over Chinese tech firms? Apple iOS watch with smartphone features reportedly in development ...
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IDG News Service - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC will release phones with screens larger than 5 inches, and develop more budget-friendly handsets for the Chinese market, its chief financial officer said Monday. "We will not limit ...
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Samsung has set its sights on selling 10 million Galaxy S4 units per month. Samsung is still weeks, maybe months away from launching the Galaxy S4 but is planning on selling a whopping 10 million per month, according to Money Today. If ...
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Research In Motion’s (RIM) stock prices soared this week, following speculation, rumours and high hopes about the upcoming BlackBerry 10 launch next week. RIM’s stock price has been languishing in the $11-$12 range on the ...
Smartphones running Mozilla Firefox and Jolla Sailfish will launch separately in 2013 amid a crowded smartphone market. Their impact will be small but important initially, as the smartphone community seeks alternatives to the frontrunner ...
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APPLE'S pinch-to-zoom technology has been ruled as not original enough to be worthy of a patent. A filing in a high-stakes legal battle between Samsung and Apple revealed that a"pinch-to-zoom"patent central to the case had been deemed ...
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IBM has shown interest in acquiring the vital enterprise services business of struggling smartphone maker Research in Motion, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday. The report cites two unnamed sources, including one person who said ...
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SOUTH Korean tech giant Samsung is to drop a legal request to ban Apple products in five European countries but will maintain lawsuits for alleged patent infringement, a Samsung spokeswoman said. The five countries concerned are Britain, ...
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HTC could get Apple’s iPhone and iPad banned in the US because of patents, which of course would include the new iPhone 5 set for release today. A US judge has said that Apple may have trouble invalidating two patents held by HTC ...