Lenovo, already China’s top PC seller, is expected to take the title for the country’s top smartphone vendor in 2013, Gartner said. It made the prediction as Lenovo’s swift growth in China’s smartphone market has ...
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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 ...
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Samsung is exploring the possibility of filing a lawsuit against Apple over the next iPhone, potentially arguing that the device infringes on Samsung's LTE wireless patents, according to unnamed industry sources quoted by the The Korea ...
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HP CEO, Meg Whitman, has confirmed that the company will be returning to the smartphone market a year after its failed Pre 3 smartphone and webOS operating system were released. The firm is developing a new smartphone, Whitman confirmed ...
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Windows 8 is finally here and the stakes are sky high for Microsoft. “We’re so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs,” said Steven Sinofsky, ...
Tags: Apple, Galaxy, iPad, Microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Samsung, Steve Ballmer
It’s currently trading at $666.80, but Apple is going to hit $1,000 a share by January 2014, and will hit $2,000 by the end of the decade, according to a report. Writing for Bullish Cross, Andy Zaky explains why he thinks the Apple ...
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While Samsung and Apple thrive in the overall smartphone market, the situation is uncertain, perhaps dire, for several cell-phone vendors, including Research In Motion, Nokia and Motorola. Gartner on Tuesday reported that smartphone sales ...
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Nokia has dropped off the list of the top five smartphone vendors in the third quarter, facing stiff competition from Samsung and Apple globally, and from high-growth vendors like Huawei in China, where Nokia was the dominant player as ...
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Android’s 2012 security overhaul hasn’t stopped the volume of global threats targeting the mobile OS continuing to rise at an alarming rate, F-Secure’s latest mobile threat report has found. The company noticed 51,447 ...
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Fujitsu and NEC today announced a partnership with Japanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo to build semiconductor chips for smartphones. The three firms will work together on developing and manufacturing the chips which aim to consolidate ...
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Microsoft has launched Windows Phone 8, with the hope of reclaiming a portion of the fast-growing smartphone market. The tech giant has been largely absent from the smartphone market during its most-recent years of explosive growth, but ...
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Google and LG are reportedly preparing to launch a Nexus smartphone modelled on the Optimus G. Like the Optimus G, the still-to-be-named new Nexus handset will be one of the first quad-core smartphones on the U.S. market when it ...
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The latest smartphone market share figures from Gartner show that Android-based devices, and in particular handsets from Samsung, are growing in popularity globally. Gartner’s second quarter 2012 market share data showed that ...
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Taiwanese smartphone company HTC has posted a third quarter profit drop of 79 per cent,as the gap between the company and market leaders Samsung and Apple grows ever wider. HTC has reported a net profit of NT$3.9bn(£83m)from July to ...
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In third-quarter 2012,global mobile phone market shipments were 444.5 million mobile phones,up 2.4%on 434.1 million units in Q3/2011,according to the Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker of market research firm International Data ...