Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, has begun volume production of RFX8422S, which is claimed ...
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Corning has introduced Gorilla Glass NBT, a new cover glass designed to protect the screens of touch-enabled notebooks. The company said this new solution provides enhanced scratch resistance, reduced scratch visibility, and better retained ...
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Android has now captured 80 per cent of the global smartphone market, according to second quarter results analysed by research firm Strategy Analytics. According to the research, the Android operating system now accounts for 79.5 per cent ...
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Soft drinks maker Britvic is dumping BlackBerry in favour of Windows Phone devices from Nokia. The company is currently rolling out Nokia Lumia 720 smartphones to 800 staff as part of the platform shift at the company. Further reading ...
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Google has announced that it will be releasing its new mid-range smartphone, the Moto X, in the US, Canada and Latin America around the end of August or early September. Manufactured in newly-built facilities in Texas, the Moto X will be ...
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NEC will introduce no new smartphones, and will make current models only to order, as it struggles to find the economies of scale required to compete in the market. The Japanese company is ending the development, manufacturing and sale of ...
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Of the top-selling smartphones in the U.S. in the past year, customers ranked two Samsung smartphones higher than the last three Apple iPhone models. The latest American Customer Satisfaction Index, released Wednesday, ranked both the ...
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Apple's new low-cost iPhone may be called the iPhone 5C, a name that didn't strike analysts as "C" for "Comforting." The name of the long-rumored lower-priced iPhone -- meant to give Apple new ammunition in its war against Android ...
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China's popular Xiaomi smartphone company is diving into the country's low-end handset market with a new product, taking note of the rumors that Apple is preparing its own budget iPhone. On Wednesday, Xiaomi unveiled its new "Red Rice" ...
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Eight months after the launch of Microsoft's Surface line, the company has yet to turn a profit on its first foray into tablet manufacturing and sales, according to a Tuesday regulatory filing. Microsoft's annual report, filed yesterday ...
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Ride sharing app Sidecar is advising its drivers to steer clear of San Francisco International Airport after officials there started issuing citations to drivers for picking up and dropping off passengers. "We've heard rumblings that ...
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Isis will roll out its mobile wallet application nationwide later this year following successful pilots that launched last fall in Austin, Texas, and Salt Lake City, Utah. Isis, which competes with Google Wallet and other mobile wallet ...
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Microsoft today released a stripped-down version of Office for Android smartphones, continuing its strategy of tying its mobile suite to the Office 365 rent-not-buy subscription plans. Wednesday's launch of Office Mobile for Android ...
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Computerworld - Starbucks has dropped AT&T as its in-store Wi-Fi provider, teaming up instead with Google and Level 3 Communications to offer 10 times faster network speeds. The coffee shop chain said the changeover will start in August ...
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With the Moto X smartphone launching tomorrow in New York and the LG G2 arriving in another week, the pace of smartphone releases has reached a fever pitch. Countless models of smartphones have emerged since the first iPhone appeared six ...
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