Facebook is positioning itself as a mobile-first social network, so its interest in the moves of major smartphone companies is natural. BlackBerry is a sinking ship searching desperately for a rescue, so its turning to any major mobile ...
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Senior executives at ailing smartphone maker BlackBerry met with Facebook executives to find out whether the social media company might be interested in bidding for the Canadian firm. News of the meeting was reported in the Wall Street ...
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Three HTC executives have been arrested in Taipei on suspicion of leaking trade secrets, as well as filing false commission fee claims totalling T$10 - around £214,524. Vice president of product design Thomas Chien, research and ...
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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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HTC's share value has dropped by seven per cent after Friday's announcement that the Taiwanese phone maker had suffered an 83 per cent profit drop compared to the second quarter of 2012. Shares in HTC are now worth only $189, harking back ...
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Telecoms network EE has confirmed that it will not be releasing the HTC First smartphone in Europe following a poor response to the Facebook Home interface in the US. The HTC First, often referred to as "Facebook Phone", is the first to ...
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The HTC First smartphone will have native support for Facebook Home when it ships on AT&T April 12. Some analysts wonder how soon -- or whether -- native support for the app will be added to more smartphones. Given Facebook's enormous ...
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On this week's podcast we discuss Samsung breaking away from Android, Google's privacy woes, then 40th anniversary of the mobile phone, and the potential demise of Windows RT. This episode of Crash is presented by Graeme Burton, with ...
More details have emerged about the new "Facebook phone", which is expected to be launched as early as Thursday 4 April. The press event will be held at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California - revealed after invitations ...
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Talk that Facebook is developing its own smartphone is spreading again. Speculation about Facebook's hardware plans exploded yet again after the company late Thursday invited reporters to a press event on April 4 at its offices in Menlo ...
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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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Facebook's search tool announcement may not have thrilled investors or many of its users, with both groups hoping for the release of a Facebook phone, but the social networking firm has added a new tool that allows users to make free calls. ...
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CBR rounds up expert opinions on what Facebook’s new graphic search means for the future of the company and its search engine competitors. Jonathan Beeston, director of new product innovation at Adobe Facebook Graph Search is a ...
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Facebook yesterday unveiled its social graph feature dubbed Graph Search, which allows people to use the network as a search engine to find people, photos, places and interests. Further reading Facebook, Google attack MEP report ...
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With Facebook preparing for its mysterious press conference on Tuesday, speculation is surging that the announcement could be about anything from a new smartphone, a new mobile plan to a new search feature. Last week, Facebook invited ...
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