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Apple launches new products before court date

5 things to know today ... 1. Apple introduced a new iPhone, called the iPhone SE. The company said customers have been asking for a more powerful version of the 4-inch iPhone 5/5s, so the SE packs Apple's A9 processor and M9 motion coprocessor into...

India smartphone shipments exceed 100 million in 2015

India surpassed the US smartphone user base Smartphone shipments in India totaled more than 100 million units during 2015, representing an increase of 23% compared to the previous year, according to a recent report by Counterpoint Research. By the end of 2015, the smartphone user base...

Global smartphone shipments hit 1.4 billion in 2015

IDC smartphone tracking shows Apple, Huawei and Xiamoi had year-over-year growth in smartphone shipments For smartphone shipments around the world, 2015 was a good year. IDC reports smartphone sellers moved nearly 1.433 billion units last year. That breaks down to smartphone sales of 399.5 million units in the...

Kagan: How Lenovo, Google Project Tango may change wireless

The wireless industry is one of the healthiest and fastest growing of all time. That frantic pace means industry direction and corporate leadership often changes every few years. We may be about to experience another event of such magnitude called Project Tango, which could...

Google teams with Lenovo, Microsoft MVNO … 5 things to know today

1. Google tapped China's Lenovo to build its first Tango smartphones. Tango uses 3-D scanning to superimpose information about a location onto the image seen when a user looks through the camera lens. It is also expected to provide navigation indoors. Lenovo bought Motorola...

Qualcomm strikes deal with Xiaomi

Qualcomm will license cellular patents to Chinese smartphone juggernaut Xiaomi, the rising star that has quintupled its worldwide market share during the last three years. The San Diego chipmaker's agreement with Xiaomi follows patent licensing agreements with three other Chinese smartphone makers: Huawei, ZTE...

Siri, Sprint and Wi-Fi calling … 5 things to know today

Siri whispers for Apple, Lenovo talks up Motorola ... 5 things to know today 1. Siri appears to be a big part of Apple's upcoming product announcement. The company has invited media to a September 9 launch event and the invitation reads "Siri, give us...

Worldwide server market revenue grows 6.1%

With the growing demand to store more data and increase processing power, server space is becoming prime real estate. According to IDC, revenue in the worldwide server market has increased by 6.1% over last year, raking in $13.5 billion in the second quarter of...

Apple gains on Samsung as smartphone growth slows

Apple is gaining ground on Samsung in a slowing smartphone market, according to Gartner's latest report on mobile device sales. Samsung remains the market leader with a 21.9% market share in the second quarter, down from 26.2% a year ago. Apple has 14.6% of...

5 things to know in mobile 8/13/15 (RCR podcast)

Mobile news: 5 things you need to know today 1. Samsung is launching new products today. The world's largest smartphone maker is introducing a new version of the Galaxy S6 Edge, as well as a new Note 5. 2. Samsung rivals HTC and Lenovo are both...

Motorola Mobility targeted for Lenovo layoffs

Lenovo plans to cut 3,200 jobs Less than a year after buying Motorola Mobility, China's Lenovo has said that it will cut 3,200 jobs on the heels of a steep drop in sales of Motorola phones. Lenovo said that most of the cuts will be...

GSMA predicts 913M smartphones in China by year-end

According to the study, the Asian nation will reach 1B 4G connections by 2020 SHANGHAI – China is expected to have 913 million smartphones by the end of the year, up compared to 805 million at the end of the first quarter of 2015, according to GSMA...

Juniper: Apple and Samsung to lose ground to cheaper Chinese tablets

Apple and Samsung tablets are in for some stiff competition in the coming years, according to a Juniper study. The study finds that the two dominant tablet makers will lose 38% marketshare by 2019. The study predicts that the tablet market will move increasingly toward...

Lenovo sales drive revenue; Sprint earnings flat

Lenovo Q3 revenue climbs 31% as device sales more than double Hong Kong-based Lenovo Group beat analysts’ estimates for its third fiscal quarter ended Dec. 31, 2014,  notching $14.1 billion in revenue on net income of $253 million. The company said in a statement that, striving for...

CES 2015: Smartphone roundup

LAS VEGAS – Chinese consumers may be the first to see some of the hottest new smartphones from this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Motorola's new owner (Lenovo), and Nokia's new owner (Microsoft), both released new smartphones at CES and said that they would target markets...

BlackBerry considers Chinese partnership (RCR Mobile Minute)

BlackBerry thinks Chinese smartphone-makers could benefit from its security expertise, and CEO John Chen has been calling on the leaders of China's biggest handset-makers. According to Bloomberg, Chen has met with Lenovo's Yang Yuanqing and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun. Lenovo and Xiaomi are the two...

Motorola Mobility to close Texas manufacturing plant

Motorola Mobility's effort to bring smartphone manufacturing to the United States has failed, and the company says it will close its Fort Worth factory by the end of the year. By that time Motorola Mobility expects to be owned by China's Lenovo, which is...

Wearables get a new look from Google, Samsung, and new antenna technology

Extending mobile connectivity beyond smartphones and tablets is a key goal for companies across the wireless ecosystem, and this spring it appears that wearables may temporarily steal the spotlight from the connected car. Google, Samsung, Motorola, and LG have all announced new wearable technologies...

Research shows considerable growth in tablet sales

New research from Gartner stated that tablet sales increased by 68 percent last year.

Device News: New unveilings from Samsung, LG, Nokia, Sony, Lenovo

Several companies, including LG, Nokia and Sony, have recently announced new smartphones and tablets.

Lenovo: We can turn Motorola Mobility around

Motorola Mobility's red ink will soon be history, according to China's Lenovo Group, which recently agreed to buy the struggling smartphone maker from Google for $2.9 billion. Today the company's CEO told Bloomberg that it expects to achieve what Google could not, turning the...

Apple shines in U.S. market, helped by carrier promotions

American consumers continue to buck the global trend, passing over popular Chinese brands in favor of handsets made by Apple and Motorola. The latest report from ComScore found that of the estimated 156 million Americans who own a smartphone, 41.8% own an iPhone. The...

Google to sell Motorola handset business to Lenovo

Google is selling the Motorola Mobility handset business to China's Lenovo at a fraction of the price it paid for the company less than two years ago. But Google will keep most of Motorola's patents. Lenovo will pay $2.91 billion for Motorola's mobile device...

Apple earnings: 3 key takeaways for carriers

Apple said yesterday that it sold 51 million iPhones and 26 million iPads during the fourth quarter of 2013, which is the company's first fiscal quarter. Quarterly revenue was a record $57.6 billion, while net income was flat versus the year-ago quarter at $13.1...