HTC said Wednesday it will launch a new smartphone with a full-HD 5-inch screen in the Japanese market from December. The screen, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, at 440 pixels per inch (ppi), is the main attraction of the HTC J ...
Tags: HTC, smartphone, full HD screen, Japanese market, 440 ppi
The mobile-audio-device market has grown rapidly over recent years,producing consumers well used to scrutinising audio and less willing to compromise on quality.Average Joe has grown a set of golden ears,you might say.Reinforcing this ...
Tags: audio quality, mobile-audio-device, real-time wireless
In 2001, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan's dominant telecom provider, got a shock. It had just started DSL broadband Internet service and was taking its first steps toward reaping the benefits of an ambitious and costly plan to string ...
Tags: Japan, telecom, DSL broadband Internet service, Softbank
Japanese electronics heavyweights Fujitsu and NEC, together with the country's largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo, said Wednesday they will form a new joint venture to build and sell wireless chips for smartphones. The venture, Access ...
Tags: Fujitsu, NTT DoCoMo, NEC, joint venture, wireless chips, smartphones
Ericsson is suing Samsung for patent infringement, despite negotiating over the use of the inventions for almost two years. The two mobile firms entered into an agreement in 2001 allowing Samsung to license the use of 24 of ...
Tags: Ericsson, Samsung, patent dispute, mobile devices, patented technologies
The RSPCA has announced a new partnership with AMT-SYBEX to help its officers handle animal cruelty cases on the move using their mobile phones. All of the incidents reported by the public to the RSPCA – estimated to be one every 30 ...
Tags: RSPCA, animal cruelty cases, mobile phone, command system
Government departments have been given the go-ahead to use iPhones to send and receive sensitive emails, as part of moves to broaden the number of approved public sector mobile devices beyond BlackBerrys. Under new guidelines, civil ...
Tags: iPhone, mobile device, Apple device, BlackBerry
Research in Motion (RIM) has pinned all its hopes on its upcoming mobile operating system (OS) BlackBerry 10 (BB10). Despite promises to launch by the end of the year, the company's CEO, Thorsten Heins, told the world they would have to ...
Tags: mobile operating system, BlackBerry, system, distant memory
Organic LED materials specialistUniversal Display Corporation (UDC) has slashed its sales guidance for 2012, blaming push-outs of OLED TV production for the shortfall. Nearly one-third of the stock value of New Jersey-based UDC was lost ...
Tags: Organic LED, sales, OLED TV production, company news
RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that the components in its new RF73xx series of high-power, high-efficiency linear power amplifiers are designed for use as the final amplification stage in 3V, 50Ω LTE mobile cellular ...
Tags: RFMD, LTE, linear power, cellular equipment
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire ...
Tags: RF, CMOS, Silicon On Sapphire, UltraCMOS, RFIC
Samsung is facing accusations that the company deliberately tried to hide the employment of underage workers at a Chinese supplier, after a labor protection group said it found three girls under the age of 16 employed at the factory. On ...
Tags: Samsung, Labor Group, Computer Products
When it comes to things that keep CIOs up at night, mobility, particularly bring your own device (BYOD), is at the top of the list or near it. Mobile device management (MDM) products and services are often the reflexive response to the need ...
Tags: CIOs, BYOD, MDM, secure data
Microsoft today launched a new version of its development centre for Windows Phone devices, hoping to encourage more developers to create apps compatible with the mobile software. The Dev Centre has evolved from the App Hub previously ...
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As the latest iPhone went on sale Friday, with T-Mobile USA once again left out of the party, the fourth-place U.S. carrier started turning on a network that is designed to offer high data rates on unlocked iPhones. On Friday, T-Mobile ...
Tags: USA, T Mobile, iPhone, high data rates