Thieves broke into a number of mobile phone shops across central Japan and stole hundreds of iPhone 5 handsets hours before the device went on sale Friday morning, police said. The robbers broke doors and forced open the front shutters on ...
Tags: iPhone 5, Mobile Shops, Japan, Thieves
Google's mobile operating system(OS),Android,has been targeted again by malicious malware,which causes the device to send out spam SMS messages. The infected malware,known as SpamSoldier,has been hiding in free versions of popular Android ...
Tags: Android, Malware, Attack, Google Play Store
As Apple launched its iPhone 5 in China on Friday, interest at one of the company's stores in Beijing was muted, with only two people waiting in line minutes before the store opened its doors at 8 a.m. "I thought there would be more ...
Tags: Iphone 5, Iphone, Consumer Electronics, Apple Store
Nokia today announced its results for the third quarter of 2012, showing revenues had fallen again. Nokia reported overall sales of €7.2bn for Q3 2012, down from €7.5bn in Q2 2012 and €9bn in Q3 2011. Sales from the ...
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Samsung Electronics said today that net profit nearly doubled in the third quarter on strong sales of its Galaxy S III and Note 2, which also boosted results in its component business. The world’s largest maker of mobile handsets ...
Tags: Galaxy S III, net profit, Samsung, mobile handsets
Europe's leading online sports betting and mobile casino games wagering business is booming thanks to the new fantastic gambling titles entering the market. Mega Moolah progressive slot developed by Microgaming software provider can now be ...
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Apple will sell 101.6 million iPads and 193.9 million iPhones in 2013, according to an analyst. In contrast to Apple, Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley predicted that Amazon will sell 10.7 million tablets during 2013 and Samsung ...
Tags: Apple, iPad, iPhone, Apple tablets
Some new iPhone 5 users are griping that they received scuffed or scratched handsets out of the box, while others are reporting the new iPhone is more susceptible to nicks than previous models. Apple sold more than 5 million iPhone 5 ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone5, Scratches, Users complain
Mobile payments with Google Wallet are growing fast, but the road to wide acceptance of NFC in the U.S. will be slow, the head of Google’s payments unit said Friday. The number of NFC (near-field communication) transactions with ...
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The total value spend of Near Field Cummunication (NFC) mobile payments will rise from $4 billion in 2012 to $191 billion in 2017, breaking the $100 billion mark in 2016. Despite Apple rejecting NFC for its latest smartphone, the iPhone ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone, mobile, mobile payment, Near Field Communication, NFC
Nokia yesterday showed off the new Lumia 920 smartphone, the company’s first device running Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 8 OS. The device, which is the company’s flagship Windows Phone 8 smartphone, has a new start ...
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Editor's note: This story has been changed since it was originally posted to correct the price of the Nexus Q. It is $299, not $199. Google's new consumer media streaming device, the Nexus Q, poses little threat to Apple's growing Apple ...
Chinese search giant Baidu said it would invest more than US$1.6 billion to build a new cloud computing centre, as the company declared the mobile internet as a major focus of its next phase of growth. “In our next step, we must ...
Tags: Baidu, Cloud Computing Centre, Cloud Computing, mobile internet
Google responded to allegations it stopped the launch of a new Acer smartphone in China, by stating that the handset's Chinese-developed mobile OS was "apparently derived" from Android, but still not fully compatible with the Android ...
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PC maker Acer has allegedly cancelled the launch of a new smartphone using a Chinese-developed mobile operating system because Google threatened to cancel the company’s license to use the Android OS. Acer was originally scheduled to ...
Tags: Acer, Android, Android OS, Google, PC maker, smartphone