Most Americans over the age of 10 do not seem to be watching movies on smartphones, but device makers are nonetheless forging ahead with a new generation of 3D smartphones. LG has apparently had enough success with its Optimus 3D Android phone to warrant...
Not sure which model to pick next time you upgrade your smartphone? Your carrier may soon let you "try before you buy" by leasing you a smartphone. TMNG Global (TMNG), a software and services provider to carriers, is now offering its clients a business...
Beijing Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, may launch CDMA version of iPhone 4S by the end of February or at the beginning of March, according to a statement issued by the company.
InterDigital (NASDAQ: IDCC) has seen its stock price slump since it confirmed that it was calling off its patent sale 8 days ago. But the company says there should be more news soon, now that it has decided to sell its patent portfolio in...
What's the best reason to show up early for a meeting? Often the answer is to get a seat closest to the wireless access point. But as more employees show up at work with tablets and other wireless devices, many access points succumb to...
The Obama re-election campaign will outfit its staff in the field with Square, the fast-growing system for collecting payments through Android or iOS mobile devices.
Media observers have so far focused on the move as a symbol of Obama's embrace of tech innovation, but more...
The concerns of healthcare IT executives trying to meet the demands of supporting consumer-grade computing devices are growing. A study -- conducted by BizTechReports and published as a white paper by Panasonic (download here)-- found major operational issues for media tablets in healthcare, with...
For the first time since the invention of the analog cellular network, the world's telecom operators are converging on a single wireless standard - LTE. There is little debate that over time, virtually every GSM, UMTS, CDMA, WiMax and proprietary broadband wireless operator will...
"The phone with a helmet on," is one of the many niche products that delivers cutting-edge technology to meet a specific consumer need. But phones like the Casio Commando don't make it to market unless the companies that make them are working closely with...
The tablet market will explode over the next five years with retail revenue increasing from US $34.5 billion in 2011 to US $121.5 billion in 2016, according to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media. According to another survey called Retail Embraces Tablets...
Samsung Electronics was neck-and-neck with Apple in the fourth quarter race for first place in the white-hot smartphone market. Estimates based on Samsung's fourth quarter earnings report put the company's smartphone sales at 36.1 million, just below Apple's 37 million reported earlier this week....
The world's largest mobile phone maker put an end today to weeks of speculation today about sales of its Lumia smartphones, and what those sales would mean to its financial results. Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) lost $1.4 billion during the fourth quarter, and the...
Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn Technology Co. Ltd., which manufactures the Apple iPad, has received federal tax benefits for producing tablets in Brazil. The manufacturer was given reduced import tax rate for tablet components.
The determination, the country's official gazette reported Wednesday, provides for exemption or reduction...
Citing intense competition, unfavorable macroeconomic conditions and the effects of a natural disaster in Thailand, the president and CEO of Sony Ericsson Bert Nordberg justified the company's lower revenue for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2011. Sales were down 16%...
Apple shares are up more than 6% this morning after a blockbuster quarterly earnings announcement yesterday afternoon. The company said strong sales of the iPhone 4S helped boost net income to $13.1 billion, or $13.87 per share, more than double net income during the...
Forget about the Colombia you may know from the 1990s. The current scenario is different and much more business friendly than in the past. The government’s plan to boost telecommunications in the country is set to increase competition among operators and expedite the deployment...
A new report by CyberMedia Research states that the overall Indian mobile handsets market recorded sales of 15.4 million units during November 2011, taking the total handset shipments during the first eleven months of calendar year 2011 to nearly 166 million units.
Apple's appetite for chips is shaking up the semiconductor industry. Research giant Gartner, Inc. says Apple is now spending more on chips than any other company, surpassing rivals Samsung and Hewlett Packard as the number one chip buyer for 2011. Gartner says Apple spent...
Shares of Nokia bounced back today after a steep sell- off yesterday on news that its orders to chip supplier ST-Ericsson were sluggish. “The revenues of Nokia have collapsed and this is why the revenues of ST Ericsson are not what we expected," Carlo...
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The number of mobile broadband capable accesses in Brazil grew 82.18% last year, totalizing 18.6 million new devices, according...
Analysts predict that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will sell as many as 48 million iPads this year, about four times as many tablets as Amazon is expected to sell, based on projections for the Kindle Fire. Both the iPad and the Kindle Fire were hot...
Samsung Electronics Thursday announced that it has started producing embedded multi-chip package (eMCP) memory for use in the rapidly expanding market segment for entry-to mid-level smartphones.
