Microsoft is making $2bn every year in patent licensing for Android, according to Nomura financial analyst Rick Sherlund. However, the 95 per cent profit margins it enjoys as a result of the popularity of Android is covering up deep ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products, xBox, Skype, Mobile
A new survey, titled "Holiday 2013: Top Trends to Watch" commissioned by Kronos Incorporated and conducted online by Harris Interactive, reveals that it will take an average of 2.2 negative experiences for Americans to stop purchasing from ...
Tags: shopping experiences
It's becoming an almost common sight in convention halls and conference centers all over America: Dozens, sometimes hundreds, of small business owners packed in rows, sipping coffee and listening to a passionate presentation about how to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Facebook is positioning itself as a mobile-first social network, so its interest in the moves of major smartphone companies is natural. BlackBerry is a sinking ship searching desperately for a rescue, so its turning to any major mobile ...
Tags: Facebook, Computer Products, smartphone, Blackberry
Proposals in Congress to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. telephone records would compromise the agency's ability to find and track terrorists, representatives of the intelligence community said Monday. The USA ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Wooden Cradle Amplifies iPhone Sound Medina, MN (November 7, 2013) – Rockler Woodworking and Hardware has introduced the Koostik Kit, a free-standing wooden cradle that fits any model of the Apple iPhone and uses passive amplification ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment, Components
Intelligence agencies across Europe have been developing their own mass internet and phone surveillance capabilities in partnership with the UK's GCHQ electronic intelligence agency. That is the latest claim to arise from the cache of US ...
Tags: Phone, smartphone
Rockstar, the group that bought Nortel's patents in 2011 following the company's bankruptcy, has taken aim at Google, HTC, Samsung and Huawi for alleged patent infringement. Google itself is accused of seven different counts of patent ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Single- and extra-cab versions of the Toyota HiLux have been upgraded with new safety, technology and convenience features, accompanied by price rises of up to $1250. In response to low demand for petrol-powered HiLux models, Toyota ...
Tags: Toyota Hilux, Extra-Cab Utes
More than 3.4 billion people, nearly half the world's population, own at least one mobile phone in 2013. As of 2010, more than 90 percent of people worldwide were covered by a mobile phone signal, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend ...
Tags: Mobile Phone, Consumer Electronics
Now that Halloween is (almost) behind us, many people's attention will turn to Christmas shopping. How can packaging push shoppers' hot buttons? Will behaviors of early shoppers for the 2013 holiday season presage future holiday shopping ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Christmas shopping
US-based iHealth Lab has announced that its portable Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor system is now available for sale at select stores. According to the company, users can regularly monitor their blood glucose levels by using the ...
Tags: Blood Glucose, Medicine
Strava has added indoor workout videos to its mobile device apps. The workouts, developed by training video supplier The Sufferfest, are available now to premium Strava members. The updated Strava app now contains three workout videos and ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, APP
Scrap metal consists of a wide range of recyclable materials. Although most of the people might equate it as piece of superfluous metal part, which has no particular value, but the scrap industry is very floatable in a number of countries ...
Tags: Used Metal, Scrap Metal
The worldwide smartphone market grew 38.8% on year in the third quarter of 2013, according to IDC. Vendors shipped a total of 258.4 million smartphones in the third quarter, establishing a new record for units shipped in a single quarter by ...
Tags: Smartphone, Huawei, Lenvo