Microsoft's acquisition of Finnish firm Nokia's mobile phone business and patents is a bad piece of business, according to Jon "Maddog" Hall, the executive director of Linux International, a non-profit organisation of IT professionals that ...
With its $7.2 billion agreement to buy Nokia’s handset business, Microsoft is in a position to surpass Apple and Android smartphone makers in providing an enterprise-class mobile platform, experts say. However, whether Microsoft is ...
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Troubled smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry can survive as a niche player in the mobile devices market, according to a member of the Canadian firm's board. In an interview published by The Wall Street Journal, newly elected BlackBerry ...
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Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating three of HTC's employees for stealing trade secrets to sell to Chinese firms and fraud, according to recent reports. HTC's research and development centre as well as the suspects' offices and homes ...
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Google has cut the price of the Nexus 4 in handful of countries including the U.K. and the U.S., where the smartphone now costs from $199. The aggressive drop signals Google wanting to preempt the arrival of a cheaper iPhone. The price ...
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Mobile phone manufacturer HTC is developing a smartphone operating system specifically for the Chinese market in an effort to turn its fortunes around, sources close to the Taiwanese company have said. According to the Wall Street ...
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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has said the company is now worth 10 billion U.S. dollars after a new round of funding, presenting the latest evidence of Chinese smartphone makers' breakneck growth. The private company owns the ...
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Android devices are 100 times more likely to contract malware than iOS devices, a report from the US Homeland Security and Department of Justice has stated. The unclassified report, which reveals that 79 per cent of malware threats to ...
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Samsung remains the runaway market leader in smartphones, according to the latest figures from analysts at Gartner. It sold 71.4 million units in the second quarter to claim a commanding market share of 31.7 per cent, while Apple in ...
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Chinese smartphone maker ZTE has revealed that it will sell the Mozilla Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open on auction site eBay, retailing at a price of £59.99 [$79.99]. The device, first revealed at Mobile World Congress earlier this ...
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BlackBerry has launched the 9720 smartphone running the 7 OS in a bid to stay relevant in the growing low end of the smartphone market.? The launch of the new device comes as BlackBerry on Monday?formed a committee to explore strategic ...
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South Korean firm Samsung has been taken to court in Brazil for claims of violating labour laws. In a legal suit filed on Friday and now made public, prosecutors have accused the company of making its employees work long, tiring shifts ...
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According to the latest research from Gartner, smartphone sales have surpassed feature phone sales for the first time, with smartphones accounting for 51.8 percent of all mobile phone sales in the second quarter of 2013. Worldwide ...
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The iPhone's share of the world mobile market has declined, while both Android and Windows smartphones saw theirs rise during the second quarter the year. That's according to the latest figures from analysts at IDC in its Worldwide ...
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Canalys has published its final second-quarter-2013 smartphone shipment estimates by vendor for the 50-plus countries that it tracks. Some 238.1 million units shipped in the second quarter, an impressive 50% on-year increase. And while ...
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