Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...
NEW YORK -- RIM's share price dropped more than 6% on Wednesday, after the company announced that it was changing its name to BlackBerry and unveiled two new smartphones, the touchscreen Z10 and the qwerty keyboard Q10. The BlackBerry ...
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Less than a year ago, Facebook acknowledged that it had to improve its ability to generate revenue from its mobile users or face a tough future. Today, executives are calling Facebook "a mobile company." Are those claims true? Did ...
Hewlett-Packard researchers are developing a cloud-based "avatar" to manage all of a user's mobile devices and wireless networks. Their idea is to give individual users an identity that transcends the many smartphones, tablets and other ...
Samsung is doing to Apple in tablets what it did to them in smartphones. According to analysts IDC, Samsung’s Q4 market share in tablets was 15% and Apple’s was 44%. Last year Samsung’s share was 7.3% and Apple’s ...
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IDC said on Friday that Microsoft shipped an estimated 900,000 Surface RT tablets last quarter, barely missing the top five device makers, and illustrating that demand was “muted at best”. “There is no question that ...
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The firm formerly known as RIM has announced its BlackBerry Z10 smartphone, the top-of-the line BlackBerry that – it hopes – is going to take on the iPhone 5 and save the company. BlackBerry, as RIM is now known, has announced ...
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A Denver, Colorado based startup has launched an innovative way to type on smartphones. Named ZoomKeeTM by Entropy Wrap, LLC, this patent pending technology automatically magnifies the keyboard around the characters a user is typing, ...
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As America prepares for Super Bowl XLVII, new research from SquareTrade® reveals that 23 million Americans have damaged their cell phone or tablet while caught up in the passion of a sporting event. With the action expected to be fast ...
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The new BlackBerry Z10 places communication: messaging, mailing and social networking, at the centre of its operation. During our first hands-on encounter with the touch screen-enabled Z10, it was clear BlackBerry has a different view ...
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A US appeals court has refused to reconsider an appeal from Apple that sought a ban on Google-branded Samsung smartphones. As part of a series of legal battles in the case, the US Federal Appeals Court panel in Washington rejected Apple's ...
Firm's mobile chipset shipments rose 17% during the quarter to 182 million. Qualcomm has reported a 29% rise in its revenues during the first quarter of 2013 to $6.02bn. The company's Q1 profit rose 36% to $1.91bn, while its operating ...
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Research In Motion is changing its name to BlackBerry, a move it hopes will signify a fresh start for the company. The surprise name change, which takes effect immediately, was announced by CEO Thorsten Heins at an event in New York to ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has launched a quad-band GSM/EDGE power amplifier module with what is claimed to be best-in-class power-added-efficiency (PAE), ...
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Chinese phone maker ZTE is planning to launch a smartphone based on Mozilla's Firefox OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month. That ZTE is planning to launch a phone based on the upcoming OS doesn't come as surprise; last ...
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