Global mobile phone shipments grew a modest 2% annually to reach 1.6 billion units in 2012, according to a report from Strategy Analytics’ Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) service. “Ongoing macroeconomic challenges in ...
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The passwords of about 250,000 Twitter users were stolen in a "sophisticated" cyber attack similar to those that recently hit major Western news outlets. "This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated ...
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Apple topped Samsung as the leading cellphone vendor in the U.S. in the last three months of the year to become the number-one U.S. vendor by volume for the first time, according to data published on Friday by Strategy Analysis. Apple, ...
Holden is giving its fans a chance to win one of the first all-new Holden Commodore sedans to roll of the production line in an interactive online competition starting tomorrow. The ‘Build The Commodore’ virtual scavenger ...
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SAP plans to extend its CRM offering with the acquisition of Ticket-Web, a German specialist in online ticketing for sports and entertainment venues. Ticket-Web has two main product lines: Entree Tickets and Entree CRM. Entree Tickets is ...
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On January 31, the U.S. International Trade Commission announced "337 investigations" on some 3G and 4G wireless equipment company, including Huawei, ZTE, Samsung and Nokia, to determine whether their products infringe the patents of U.S. ...
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The newly rechristened BlackBerry has delivered on its promise to breathe new life into its aging, iconic product line for diehard fans, but faces an uphill battle against the iPhone and devices based on Google’s Android operating ...
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Japanese media reports that the Japanese telecom operator KDDI Corp. is considering developing mobile communications business in Myanmar. KDDI has conveyed a willingness to participate in the tender held recently to Myanmar Government, and ...
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Samsung sold more than 400,000,000 mobile phones in the world last year, increasing 22.7% year-on-year. Samsung has a market share of 23.7%, beating out Nokia (336,000,000) and Apple (137,000,000). ZTE (65,000,000) ranked 4th and LG ...
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An ITU group has approved a successor to the H.264 video encoding standard, opening the door to future video transmission using only half the bandwidth that's now required. The International Telecommunication Union's H.265 standard is ...
Samsung led both the smartphone and overall handsets market in the fourth quarter, though analysts' estimates of shipments and market share varied. The South Korean company shipped 106 million handsets in the fourth quarter of which 60 ...
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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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Apple iPhone is not that popular in customers of Singapore and HongKong because mobile phone user’s preferences have changed and apple is subject to the success in the past. Apple fatigue, pursuit of the new and original and ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to review an earlier decision that found Samsung Electronics' products infringed four patents owned by Apple. The four patents relate to the ornamental design of a device, commands ...
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Nokia swung to a net profit during the fourth quarter, as it sold a growing number of Windows Phone-based smartphones. The company reported fourth-quarter sales of 8.04 billion euros ($10.71 billion), down 20% year-on-year, making a net ...
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