Japanese media reports that the Japanese telecom operator KDDI Corp. is considering developing mobile communications business in Myanmar. KDDI has conveyed a willingness to participate in the tender held recently to Myanmar Government, and ...
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Samsung led both the smartphone and overall handsets market in the fourth quarter, though analysts' estimates of shipments and market share varied. The South Korean company shipped 106 million handsets in the fourth quarter of which 60 ...
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Rhapsody introduced a new mobile music offer with MetroPCS that aims to help millions of consumers make good on their resolutions to spend less by offering the best value for unlimited on-demand mobile music bundle anywhere. "We ...
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Vendor earnings, market research reports and the International CES in Las Vegas this week highlighted the hardware arena, which appears to be a tale of two sectors with very different fates: PCs and mobile devices. The PC market continues ...
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The Midnight Troop Team introduces the 'Moments of Gratitude' application, the first full-featured gratitude journal application on Android. This application encourages the users to reflect on the good things in their lives, and cultivate ...
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Tizen 2.0, the open-source smartphone operating system, is now available as an alpha release with an accompanying software development kit (SDK), the Tizen project announced on Tuesday. The release lends credence to rumors that project ...
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Near field communications (NFC) technology has brought a new wave of techniques to the retail industry, enabling bricks and mortar stores to attract and interact with customers in innovative ways. Analysts see these tools as a money maker ...
Tags: NFC, UK, payments, mobile technologies
With all this economic gloom inevitably affecting business confidence in the industry, a small device, no bigger that five inches square, lifted my spirits. I might just have seen a dot of light at the end of the tunnel. The device in ...
Tags: mobile phone display, EDGE, HSPA, Samsung, OLED
Nokia has been knocked out of IDC's list of global top five smartphone companies by mobile devices firm RIM. IDC has been running its Mobile Phone Tracker report since 2004, and this is the first time Nokia has slipped out of the ...
MobiPixie's iPhone app joined Android and web applications today. Blackberry app is coming soon. The app is free. MobiPixie team announced its iPhone application today. Android and web applications are already running successfully and the ...
Skype has entered a partnership with wireless provider Wicoms to offer public Wi-Fi networks to businesses. The offering is aimed at retail outlets and owners of public spaces, like hotels or cafes, who can sign up to the service and then ...
Nokia continues to struggle as its third-quarter smartphone unit sales dropped by 63 percent compared to last year, while some warn that expectations for the arrival of its first phones based on Windows Phone 8 should not be too high. The ...
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The global mobile phone market is showing signs of slowing, despite the continuing boom in smartphone sales. New research from IDC claimed worldwide shipments of mobiles grew by just 1.4% in 2012, which it predicts will translate to 1.7bn ...
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In 2001, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan's dominant telecom provider, got a shock. It had just started DSL broadband Internet service and was taking its first steps toward reaping the benefits of an ambitious and costly plan to string ...
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IDG News Service-Samsung's efforts to seek injunctions against Apple for standards-essential patents in the mobile phone market may be an abuse of its dominant position and a violation of European Union antitrust rules,the European ...
Tags: Samsung, FRAND patents, mobile phone market, Intellectual property rights