Google Inc. is fighting back in a war of words over its patent position. There’s a side effect of Android’s success, David Drummond, the company’s chief legal officer and SVP lamented in a blog post.“Android and other platforms are competing hard against each other,...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) rose to the top spot in second-quarter marketshare in the smartphone space, capitalizing on a 31% plunge from longtime market leader Nokia Corp. (NOK), according to new analysis from IHS Inc.
Even though the smartphone space grew 7.5% quarter to quarter, Nokia’s...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) opened up the iCloud.com interface for developers yesterday and revealed pricing for the service that will launch this fall. Apple plans to offer users up to 5 GB for free and will charge $20 for 15 GB, $40 for 25 GB...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) opened up the iCloud.com interface for developers yesterday and revealed pricing for the service that will launch this fall. Apple plans to offer users up to 5 GB for free and will charge $20 for 15 GB, $40 for 25...
Nokia | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Espoo, Finland - Based on previously announced decisions of the Board of Directors to issue shares held by the Company, 18 092 Nokia shares (NOK1V) held by the Company are today transferred to participants of Nokia's equity-based...
Sony Ericsson | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Beijing, Wednesday 27th July 2011: Sony Ericsson today announced the opening of its global Research and Development (R&D) operation center in Beijing. The new center demonstrates Sony Ericsson’s expansion of its R&D capabilities and its commitment...
Reuters | July 29, 2011 | Clare Jim
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp said on Friday the lawsuit against Apple Inc will not have a fundamental impact on the company, adding the company is preparing an appeal to a U.S. court decision on the case.
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Reuters | July 29, 2011 | Miyoung Kim
Samsung Electronics Co is relying on the smartphone market to boost group profits after its flat screen unit reported a second quarter of losses and the mainstay chip business struggled.
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Reuters | August 1, 2011 | Lee Chyen Yee, Clare Jim
Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple's iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots, with one report saying the company will use one million of them in the next three...
DigiTimes | August 1, 2011 | Yenting Chen, Adam Hwang
Samsung Electronics, in view of booming sales of its Galaxy i9000 and S2 smartphone, has placed orders for 30 million touch sensors used to make 4-inch AMOLED screens
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Bloomberg | August 1, 2011 | Robert Schneider, Robert Fenner
Apple Inc. won an agreement from Samsung Electronics Co. that the South Korean company won’t sell the newest version of its tablet computer in Australia until a patent lawsuit in the country is resolved.
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The Semiconductor Industry Association said worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled $24.7 billion for June, a 1.5% decrease from May and a 0.5% decrease from a year ago. Sales in the second quarter were down 2% from the previous quarter.
“Despite this month’s modest contraction in...
Vodafone | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
Vodafone today announced the world’s first designated prepay phone specifically designed to put the Facebook experience into the heart of the handset, allowing people to easily share and connect with their friends when they’re on the move.
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HTC Corp. closed another fantastic quarter with profits up $102.9% year over year and device shipments up 24.8% from the previous quarter and up 123.7% from the year-ago period. The Taiwanese manufacturer shipped 12.1 million devices total, generating $608.3 million in net income on...
Qualcomm | July 27, 2011 | Press Release
TOKYO and SAN DIEGO – July 27, 2011 – Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), through its Wireless ReachTM initiative, and Renaissance Academy Incorporated, a private correspondence high school in Daigo-cho, Ibaraki, today announced the launch of the 3G...
Almost everything is up at Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI) except for profits. The company swung to a $56 million loss in the last quarter, after recording $80 million in profits a year ago. Motorola shipped 11.1 million devices total, including 4.4 million smartphones...
While it's no surprise that Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPad came in first place in a U.S. customer-satisfaction survey from IHS Inc., the fact that China's Shenzhen Zenithink Technologies Co. Ltd. came in at a close second was unexpected.The survey, which polled 1,400...
Apple is getting closer to offering its iPhone through China's largest mobile carrier, state-owned China Mobile, further opening a vast market and spurring what could be the next growth catalyst for the technology giant. WSJ's Yukari Kane has the exclusive story on digits.
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Smartphone sales may be set to top 420 million units in 2011, but some handset makers are poised to do far better than others when it comes to high-end devices IMS Research has revealed.
Though smartphones currently make up 28% of all handset sales, only...
Google has begun experimenting with a more tablet hugging search page, according to reports.
The search engine giant apparently realizes that when it comes to serving up content on a slew of different devices, one size definitely does not fit all, and is therefore redesigning...
The Brazilian mobile market counted 217.3 million cellphones by the first half of the year, according to Telecommunications Nacional Agency (Anatel), which just released numbers that show a teledensiy of 111.6%. In June alone, 2.3 million mobile access lines were enabled. Seventeen of 27...
LG Electronics Inc. reported an 87% decline in net profit in the recently closed quarter as mobile handset sales continue to falter. The South Korean conglomerate's mobile communications division posted a lower-than-expected loss of $49.8 million. On a company-wide basis, the company posted $103.4...
T-Mobile USA announced the upcoming availability of the new HTC Wildfire S smartphone recently. The device is a compact Android-powered handset built with simplicity in mind and is expected to be available on August 3 for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate with a two-year...
T-Mobile USA announced the upcoming availability of the new HTC Wildfire S smartphone recently. The device is a compact Android-powered handset built with simplicity in mind and is expected to be available on August 3 for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate with a two-year...
