IDG News Service - Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC said on Friday it needs to bolster its brand, forecasting a decline in revenue and profit in the third quarter. HTC projects that third-quarter revenue will total around $2.3 billion, and ...
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In what has been billed as the biggest patent battle ever, lawyers representing Apple and Samsung traded verbal blows in the opening round of the legal battle. The four-week trial began in San Jose, California yesterday. Apple is looking ...
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Computerworld-Verizon Wireless will sell the Android 4.0 Pantech Marauder smartphone for$49.99,after rebate,with a two-year service agreement starting Thursday. The Pantech Marauder smartphone. The phone joins a growing list of ...
Intel is porting the Android 4.1 operating system,also called Jelly Bean,to work on smartphones and tablets using low-power Atom processors,the company said this week. The company did not provide a time frame for when the Android 4.1 port ...
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Advance demand for Apple's next iPhone is at an all-time high,said a research firm today,predicting huge sales later this year for what most have dubbed the"iPhone 5." A survey of more than 4,000 North American consumers by ChangeWave ...
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HTC has sold back about half its majority stake in Beats Electronics,signaling according to analysts that its investment in the U.S.headphones provider may have fallen short of its expectations. The Taiwanese phone maker said in a Taiwan ...
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Nokia has announced its second quarter results for 2012 - and they didn't make pleasant reading. A 19% drop in sales, a 39% fall in smartphone shipments and just four million Lumia devices shipped – compare with Apple, which sold 35 ...
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Sprint announced Monday it had launched its 4G LTE network in 15 cities, mainly in areas surrounding the major markets of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City and San Antonio. Residents in and around Waco, Texas, were also added to the ...
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Amit Rohatgi,principal architect for mobile at MIPS Technologies, considers the Android apps development landscape and offers a positive view of the significant progress that has been made towards unification. We often hear in the media ...
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The Apple slide-to-unlock patent was held invalid by the High Court in London yesterday aloing with two other patents. HTC was asking the court to invlidate four Apple patents of which this was one. The other two patents also ...
A High Court in the U.K. has ruled that HTC did not infringe on Apple's photo management patent, while stating that three other patents Apple claimed in the lawsuit were invalid, according to HTC. The three patents declared invalid, ...
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A Taiwanese government office is warning local PC vendors of a new Apple patent for its MacBook Air that could be used in legal action to try and stop the sale of ultrabook models. Last month, Apple received a U.S. patent for the exterior ...
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Back in May when I went to the National Stationery Show, I saw a few products that I?didn't?mention in my write up, and this simple, but cool mobile phone holder was one of them. ?It was at the Kikkerland booth, where they also had the ...
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Coasia Microelectronics, which mainly distributes IC components for Samsung Electronics such as CMOS image sensors, multi-chip package (MCP) memory and OLED displays, will grab new orders from several China-based handset makers for AMOLED ...
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Nokia is to sell its UK-based Vertu,luxury mobile phone business,as part of major changes to its mobile business which will see 10,000 jobs go. Nokia has agreed terms for private equity group,EQT VI to acquireVertu which is headquartered ...
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