With barely a day that goes by without yet another report showing Research In Motion Ltd. shedding market share, many in the industry have begun to wonder whether the Canadian company has any hope of clawing its way back and regaining relevance.While knocking RIM...
Apple's launch strategy for new products is an interesting phenomenon. While the details are always jealously guarded so Jobs' "one more thing" can have the maximum impact on stage, this does leave the Cupertino-based gadget giant open for other legal ramifications down the road. Case in point - the iCloud trademark, which Jobs and Co. have just been sued over.
WSJ | June 10, 2011 | R. JAI KRISHNA
NEW DELHI – BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd. plans to introduce its PlayBook tablet in India in the week beginning June 19, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
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HotHardware | June 10, 2011 | Ray Willington
What's needed to really get people hooked on contactless payments? Lots and lots of industry support. Google Wallet has set the bar for what's possible with NFC in thesmartphone, and now Visa is making a play to expand...
ZDNet | June 9, 2011 | Press Release
Hon Hai Precision Industry—a company best known for making Apple products like the iPad—outlined production improvements, data center plans and diversification efforts.
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TechTree | June 10, 2011 | Chethan Rao
The Samsung Galaxy S II was launched some days ago in India right after the iPhone 4 was launched, which not surprisingly, spoiled the iPhone 4's party a bit. If there ever was a competitor to the World's best smartphone,...
Korea Times | June 10, 2011 | Kim Yoo-chul
Broad management shakeup may come
Samsung Group has declared an all-out war on internal corruption.
Lee Kun-hee, chairman of the group’s flagship Samsung Electronics, talked tough on the issue for a second consecutive day Thursday.
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Reuters | June 10, 2011 | Melanie Lee
(Reuters) - Dell Inc has chosen to launch its new 10-inch Android tablet in China this summer, passing up on a U.S., Europe launch, as China emerges as a front line battle for tablets.
The tablet named "Streak 10 Pro"...
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) has announced its HP TouchPad tablet will be available in 16GB flavor for $500 and $600 for 32GB beginning June 19.
The WebOS tablet will be available from U.S retailers as well as directly from HP, while AT&T is said to be introducing...
Apple has overtaken Hewlett-Packard Co. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to become the world’s largest semiconductor buyer according to iSuppli.
The research outfit indicates that original equipment maker (OEM) Apple bought $17.5 billion worth of semiconductors in 2010, up 79.6% from the comparably paltry $9.7...
Shenzhen Wuzhou Changlian | June 7, 2011 | Press Release
SHENZHEN, China, June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- From May 30 to June 5, Shenzhen Wuzhou Changlian International Trading Co. held an iPhone 4 case and phone accessories exhibition lasting 5 days in Dongguan, China. During this period, special staff were...
Economic Times | June 5, 2011
MUMBAI: Handset maker Nokia is looking for a pan India coverage for its Nokia Money, the mobile payment services enabling consumers to pay directly from their Nokia mobile phones in India, a top official said.
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Reuters | June 6, 2011 | Devidutta Tripathy and Tarmo Virki
NEW DELHI/HELSINKI, June 7 (Reuters) - From New Delhi to Shanghai to Johannesburg, a flood of cheap handsets from the likes of China's ZTE (0763.HK) and India's Micromax is destroying Nokia's top position in emerging markets.
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TechOn | June 3, 2011 | Tomohisa Takei
Acer Inc showed a prototype of a tablet computer using the "MeeGo" software platform at a press conference that Intel Corp had in Taipei, Taiwan, June 1, 2011, and is about netbooks and tablet computers.
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Ecobank | June 6, 2011 | Press Release
Ecobank Transnational Incorporated ("Ecobank"), the leading pan-African banking group, and Bharti Airtel ("Airtel"), a leading global telecommunications company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") to promote mobile banking services across Africa.
Under the terms of the MOU,...
Google’s senior vice president for Chrome, Sundar Pichai, said his firm would not have made the progress it had with its Chromebooks and ultraportables had it not been for the remarkable Taiwanese ecosystem.
In a hat tip to the country which has given Google so...
For the first time since 2008, Apple Inc. (AAPL) declined to introduce a new iPhone today at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. CEO Steve Jobs and his team of executives pulled few, if any, surprises on stage, however the software and...
Apple's historically profitable relationship with the four major record labels (Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal) paid dividends today as it became the first music vendor to allow would-be purchasers access to cloud-based copies of music they already own - even if it was not purchased through the companies iTunes music store.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Visiting Taiwan during Computex 2011, Google’s senior VP of Chrome, Sundar Pichai said the firm would not be porting its Chrome OS to tablets or handsets, nor would it be scaling Android up to Chromebooks. Since Google's Chrome browser was unveiled...
The keynote at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is just wrapping up in the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where the company's CEO Steve Jobs announced the latest additions to their desktop operating system OS X, and iOS, its mobile sibling.
Audio appears to be becoming a burgeoning trend in the mobile industry, and at Computex 2011, the vendors were out in force to showcase how best to bring the beats to cell phones.Local Taiwanese company C-Media, widely known for its audio-playback hardware for PC...
Paul Mansky seems confident in his assessment of Dell (DELL). The Canaccord Genuity analyst wrote that with sales of personal computers waning due to the rise of tablets, the Round Rock-based company needs to make a move into networking, and should do it by...
Google Inc.’s Android OS (GOOG) showed national dominance in a new report released by Reston, Va.-based Comscore (SCOR) that shows Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iPhone overtaking Research in Motion Ltd.’s (RIMM) previous BlackBerry dominance in smartphone markets.
The report highlighted trends in the U.S. mobile phone...
SAN DIEGO — Fourth-generation networks and the smartphones and devices that take advantage of that new technology are going to “supercharge” consumers' experience with mobility, Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corp., said in his keynote at Uplinq.Smartphones will increasingly become digital wallets for consumers...
