SHOWING signs of fresh life, smartphone maker BlackBerry eked out a small profit in a transition quarter in the midst of its rollout of a make-or-break platform to challenge Apple and Android. The Waterloo, Ontario firm said profit in the ...
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FACEBOOK has fuelled fresh talk about its interest in mobile phones after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for next week. Shortly after the Facebook invitation went out for the April 4 event, the technology news ...
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Existing owners of Samsung's Galaxy S III will not be able to use the phone on T-Mobile's LTE network, which debuted Tuesday and will reach 200 million people by the end of this year. The Galaxy S III does not have a compatible LTE radio, ...
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Samsung's Galaxy S4 requires an accessory case in order to charge wirelessly. Computerworld - When Samsung's new Galaxy S4 smartphone went on sale this month, lost among the fourth-generation phone's new features was its ability to charge ...
TELECOM Corporation of New Zealand expects to incur one-off restructuring costs of between $NZ70 million ($58.6m) and $NZ80m this year in relation to the reduction of its local and Australian Gen-i operations, the company said in a ...
Automotive supplier Continental has started testing of new digital car key technology that is wirelessly installed in a smartphone. The company has begun a field test in Bordeaux with a fleet of electric vehicles along with Veolia, ...
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SALES of tablet computers will surpass sales of both desktop and portable PC sales by 2014. A report by the research firm IDC said worldwide shipments of these devices -- personal computers, tablets and smartphones -- grew 29.1 per cent ...
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The number of global subscribers to 4G LTE mobile broadband technology is set to double over the next two years, rising from 105 million this year to nearly 220 million in 2014, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Deployments ...
Zinio today announced a strategic partnership with Nokia to launch the world's largest digital newsstand exclusively to Nokia Lumia smartphone customers. The Zinio Windows Phone 8 app debuts a new look and feel that has been optimized ...
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Things are looking up for people who are always looking down at their Kindle?, iPad?, iPhone?, and Galaxy? devices. The Smart-Mount is an ultra-portable hands-free mount that allows users to quickly and easily set up a secure ergonomic ...
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ANDROID and Apple account for more than 90 per cent of the surging smartphone market, and third place is being contested by BlackBerry and Microsoft's Windows Phone. But phones using operating systems based on the open-source platforms ...
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HTC finally has an Android smartphone capable of taking the fight to Samsung's Galaxy S4 and other recently announced handsets. That's our assessment after spending time using the HTC One smartphone; the new fourth-generation, LTE-capable ...
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FORMER Australian schoolboy Nick D'Aloisio is set to become one of the world's youngest self-made multi-millionaires after selling his Summly news summariser app to internet company Yahoo!. The 17-year-old, born in London to Australian ...
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KEN Boal has taken the reins at Cisco Australia and New Zealand, replacing Richard Kitts, who has been moved upstairs to a broader Asia-Pacific role for the networking giant. Boal joined Cisco in 2004, handling the public sector, and his ...
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RETAILERS have to take the next step towards personalised engagement with consumers who use mobile applications or risk losing them, an expert has warned. Mobile applications provided the opportunity to engage with shoppers 24/7, but ...
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