As the mobile phone industry undergoes sweeping changes, Professor Adrian Cheok, Professor of Pervasive Computing, discusses smart watches, haptics and mobile phones that send text messages and sweet fragrances. Smart watches and wearable ...
Tags: Smart Watches, Watches, Light Industry, Daily Use
The latest round in Apple and Samsung's bitter global battle for supremacy in the more than $300 billion smartphone market begins Tuesday in a courtroom a few miles from Apple's Silicon Valley headquarters. In courts, government tribunals ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Electronics
Apple’s global marketing chief has told a court how his firm’s job became much tougher after Samsung launched its own smartphones with a similar design. Schiller told an eight-person jury that Samsung’s infringement of ...
More than 3.4 billion people, nearly half the world's population, own at least one mobile phone in 2013. As of 2010, more than 90 percent of people worldwide were covered by a mobile phone signal, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend ...
Tags: Mobile Phone, Consumer Electronics
PDD is a London-based global product and service design innovation consultancy. The company has expertise in what it describes as providing innovation in packaging across multiple industries including the medical and consumer industries. ...
Microsoft is to acquire Nokia's Devices & Services business, which includes the smartphone and mobile phones businesses, and license the Finnish company's patents for a total of €5.44 billion (US$7 billion) in cash, the companies said ...
Tags: Microsoft, Nokia, Mobile Phones Business, Smartphones
Microsoft is to buy Nokia's mobile phone business and license its patents in a deal worth $7.2bn (£4.6bn). Further reading Nokia whacked by another downgrade – Moody's rates Nokia four notches below investment grade Microsoft ...
Tags: Microsoft, Nokia, Mobile Business
The overall Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) market in Western Europe achieved a sales volume of €44.3 billion in Q2 2013. This corresponds to a decrease of 3.8%. In the first half of the year sales volume amounted to €92.5 billion, ...
Tags: Telecommunication
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 ...
Tags: Samsung, Smartphone
The shake-out of the mobile phone market has continued with the news that Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic is to discontinue making smartphones. It comes a week after its rival NEC announced a similar withdrawal. However, ...
Tags: mobile phone, Panasonic
Recent advances in the smartphone/handheld device technology have led to a boom in the mobile device manufacturing industry. It has also given rise to a situation of patent warfare, wherein each company operating in this segment is locked ...
Tags: Mobile Devices, Electrical, Electronics
Tech earnings this week highlighted the importance of mobile communications to IT, as companies including Apple, Samsung, Facebook, AT&T and Texas Instruments reported mixed results for the quarter ending in June. Apple and Samsung ...
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Smartphones are set to become the main device for enterprise users in the future, taking over from desktops and laptops. That's the result of a recent Computing poll, which also placed wearable technology such as the imminent Google Glass ...
Tags: Smartphones, Wearables
Zact, the industry's first smart mobile service provider, today released details from a recent U.S. consumer survey looking at some of the hot topics and concerns parents are facing when it comes to mobile technology and their children. In ...
Tags: Smartphone, Consumer Electronics
Verizon Wireless became the first U.S. carrier to join the Ubuntu Carrier Advisory Group, but it is not clear whether it will eventually promote phones running the open-source Ubuntu OS on its network. Canonical, the company behind the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software