A cheaper iPhone ? A deal with China Mobile ? Despite having neither of the two, Apple reported strong earnings in the Chinese market in its fiscal first quarter, with revenue buoyed by triple digit growth in iPhone sales. The company's ...
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Samsung posted a record net profit of $6.6bn (£4.2bn) in the final quarter of 2012, the firm announced in its Q4 earnings release, but warned of more difficult times to come. It comes one day after rival smartphone producer Apple ...
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Lenovo on Monday played down reports that it was interested in buying Research In Motion, saying that the BlackBerry maker was one of many companies it was looking at as a potential takeover target. Lenovo's chief financial officer, Wai ...
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Analysts are unsure whether RIM's new enterprise mobility software, now available for download, can halt the migration away from BlackBerry smartphones. The new BES 10 tool set combines security, device and application management for ...
"Not dead yet" could well be the new BlackBerry marketing theme, as the world prepares to hear about two new BlackBerry 10 smartphones to be announced next Wednesday. Days before the announcement, there is fairly wide disagreement among ...
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Research In Motion kicked off its latest and last port-a-thon event on Friday, pushing developers to port their applications over to the new BlackBerry 10 operating system. The new OS, on which much of the fortunes of Research In Motion ...
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Research In Motion held its last port-a-thon event before the launch of BlackBerry 10 on Friday, pushing developers to port their applications over to the new operating system. The new OS, on which much of the fortunes of Research In Motion ...
Huawei saw net profit rise by 33 per cent in 2012, the Chinese telecommunications firm announced in its financial results for the year. The profits were much improved on 2011, with the firm expecting to make a net total of 15.4bn yuan ...
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China's smartphone market is growing so fast that it is expected to be nearly twice as large as the U.S. market this year, according to research firm Canalys. Smartphone shipments to the Chinese market will reach 239.8 million units in ...
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Smartphones running Mozilla Firefox and Jolla Sailfish will launch separately in 2013 amid a crowded smartphone market. Their impact will be small but important initially, as the smartphone community seeks alternatives to the frontrunner ...
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Shipments of smartphones with screens 5 inches or larger will more than double this year, as consumers are increasingly attracted to the large screen sizes offered by the phones, according to a prediction from IHS iSuppli. The company ...
Changes in the competitive smartphone market look set to cost more UK jobs as smartphone producer Nokia and telecommunications provider Everything Everywhere (EE) both announce a programme of cuts. Nokia outlined plans to cut over ...
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iPhone 5 sales are affecting Apple's suppliers. Sales are running at 11 million a month - about half of the initial build plan of 62 million a quarter. Now, iPhone 5's display suppliers are said to have had their Q1 orders halved. ...
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The PC market may be taking a beating but chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is has no plans to move toward the hot new market: smartphones. Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at AMD, made it clear in an interview with ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset,but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of dominant ARM chips. ...
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