Though Samsung's upcoming Galaxy Ace 3 is a fairly basic smartphone, it nevertheless includes LTE, highlighting how the technology is making its way to simpler and cheaper devices. Users generally have to pay a high price to get an LTE ...
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Sierra Wireless' latest embedded wireless module connects cars to Verizon's LTE network, underlining growing interest in the 4G technology while also highlighting its current drawbacks. There is growing demand for the integration of 4G ...
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A Moscow-based luxury taxi start-up is hoping to expand beyond Russia, targeting London as its next destination in a determined, technology-driven business plan. Wheely already operates a fleet of Mercedes around Russia's capital, ...
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Internet giant Google is closing in on Waze, an Israeli-based mobile app company that offers a free social GPS application featuring turn-by-turn navigation. Facebook and Yahoo in its bid to acquire the company, with an all-cash offer, ...
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Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital have completed the previously announced $28bn acquisition of American food company HJ Heinz. The consortium had entered into an agreement on 14 February to acquire Heinz for $28bn, including the ...
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US-based Sheila G has entered into a partnership with Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt, under which the latter will offer Sheila G's Original Brownie Brittle as a featured topping in its range of creamy yogurt. Sheila G's Brownie Brittle is ...
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On the roof of a medical building in San Francisco, Sprint Nextel has a cell site that's far above the cramped canyons of the city's streets, but despite the wide-open views, space is limited. Sprint shares the roof with other mobile ...
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BMW has announced upgrades to its ConnectedDrive suite of telematics safety and convenience features for 2014 models, including the ability to access Apple's Siri or Android S-Voice interactive features through a button on the steering ...
Texas Instruments and Qualcomm are working on products that will power small mobile base stations, also known as small cells, and help improve indoor coverage and speeds for enterprises. Small cells can be used in homes, public spaces and ...
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Emerging markets and lower prices will push worldwide smartphone shipments close to the billion-unit level this year, according to the latest forecast by IDC. That company is predicting total smartphone sales of 958.8 million for the ...
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Should Microsoft merge its smartphone and tablet/laptop/desktop operating systems into one substantial OS? It's not just a theoretical question prompted by an older "write once, run anywhere" development mindset. Merging the Windows Phone ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has introduced a new style of RF power amplifier (PA) optimized to power 3G and 4G small-cell base-stations. Paired with digital or ...
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Mobile telecoms operator Three UK has gone down for the second time in 24 hours. It comes just five hours after the company said that the problems on its network had been resolved, with services in London being restored first, ahead of ...
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Qualcomm has announced a new processor and modem combination that will open the door for cheaper LTE smartphones. The chip maker has expanded its Snapdragon 400 family with the introduction of a quad-core processor with multimode 3G and ...
More smartphones will ship worldwide in 2013 than other so-called mobile "feature" phones as the average price of smartphones drops, IDC said Tuesday. The average price of smartphone declined by 8% globally in 2012 and is projected to ...
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