IDC: Smartphone Sales Hit All-Time High In Q4 Led By Apple, Samsung
The record sales managed by both Apple and Samsung during the holiday quarter last year sent smartphone market growth soaring in late 2011. Market research…
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Amazon Reportedly Plans To Open A Retail Store This Year
Amazon is preparing to open a retail store in Seattle within the next few months, according to a report from Good eReader. Amazon is apparently…
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Google Wants People To 'Solve For X' With New Conference [Video]
Google unveiled its new "Solve for X" website early Monday morning, and it looks as if the Mountain View-based company is planning a TED-like think tank to encourage…
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White Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone To Launch Later This Month
Nokia on Monday officially took the wraps off a white version of its Lumia 800 Windows Phone. Nokia originally launched the device in black and…
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Facebook And Twitter Are More Addictive Than Cigarettes Or Alcohol, Study Finds
A new study suggests that social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter are more difficult to resist than cigarettes or alcohol. A team from…
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Samsung's Quad-Core Galaxy S III Reportedly Just 7mm Thick, Set To Launch In May
Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S III will reportedly be one of the thinnest smartphones in the world when it is unveiled in the coming months. South…
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Google Reportedly Hires Apple Exec For Top Secret Project
Google has hired Apple's former senior director of product integrity for a new secret project, according to a report from VentureBeat. The man in question…
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Canalys: Smartphone Shipments Surpassed PC Shipments In 2011
Smartphone shipments overtook client PC shipments for the first time in 2011, according to new data from market research firm Canalys. Vendors shipped a total of 158.5…
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Lawmaker Launches Assault On Violent Video Games
An Oklahoma lawmaker has proposed levying a new tax on violent video games. Oklahoma Democrat Will Fourkiller has suggested the tax be applied to all games that receive…
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Corning And Samsung Form Joint Venture To Combine 'Lotus Glass' With OLED Displays
Samsung and Corning — best known for its Gorilla Glass products — announced a new joint venture this week that will manufacture specialty glass substrates…
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Verizon Begins Testing New Mobile Payment Solution
Vantiv, a provider of mobile payment solutions, announced a new point-of-sale product on Friday that it will be rolling out in partnership with Verizon Wireless.…
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EU Tells Google To Stop Rolling Out Privacy Changes
Regulators with the European Union have asked Google to stop rolling out new privacy changes that the company originally introduced earlier this month. "Given the…
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Apple And Samsung To Pull In 90% Of Smartphone Profits In 2012, UBS Says
Industry watchers agree that smartphone sales will continue to balloon in 2012, but much of the projected growth will seemingly be enjoyed by just two…
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HP CEO Says webOS Will Be Better Than 'Fragmented' Android And 'Closed' iOS
Though Hewlett-Packard was unable to produce webOS devices that consumers were interested in buying — at a positive margin, at least — CEO Meg Whitman…
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iOS Apps Crash More Than Android Apps, Study Shows
Apps running on Apple's iOS devices crash more frequently than Android apps according to a new study preformed by mobile app monitoring company Crittercism. The…
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iPhones, iPad 3G Pulled From Online Apple Store In Germany Following Ban
Apple's aggressive litigation strategy against Android vendors over the past year has seen precious little return considering the huge investment it reportedly requires, and on…
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Apple's iTV Launch Reportedly Hampered By Display Availability
Apple has been widely rumored to be readying a Siri-enabled television for release this year, but a new report claims component availability issues will prevent the highly…
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Android And iOS See Continued Growth In Q4 As BlackBerry, Windows And Symbian Slide
ComScore released its most recent U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share report for the three-month period ending in December, 2011. The research firm found that Samsung…
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Google Introduces 'Bouncer' Security System To Keep Malware Out Of The Android Market
Google announced on Thursday that the company has begun to take a more active approach to keeping malware out of the Android Market. The search…
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Apple Patent Suggests Real-Time Sharing Of Fitness Workouts Coming To iOS
Future versions of Apple's iOS operating system may incorporate new fitness sharing technology, according to a patent uncovered by AppleInsider. The new technology will encourage…
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Purported Windows Phone 8 Details Leak: NFC, Native Skype Support And More
We're still waiting for Microsoft to launch Windows Phone "Tango," but supposed details have already emerged surrounding the next major Windows Phone release code-named "Apollo."…
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Qualcomm Performs The First Successful Voice-Over-LTE Call With Handover To WCDMA
Verizon, AT&T and any other LTE providers currently rely on 3G networks to carry voice phone calls. In the future, carriers hope to use voice-over-LTE…
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Touchscreen iMac Could Be In The Works According To Apple Patent
Apple certainly helped shape the mobile space by popularizing multitouch screens on smartphones and tablets, but can it do the same for desktop computing, too?…
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New Samsung Smartphone Running Android 4.0 Revealed Ahead Of MWC Announcement
Samsung has plans to announce a new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered smartphone at the annual Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona later this…
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Google To Pay €500,000 Fine To French Cartographer In Google Maps Case
Google has been ordered to pay €500,000 to Bottin Cartographes, a French company that filed a lawsuit against Google France after it began providing its…
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Wi-Fi Security Hole Discovered In Multiple HTC Devices
HTC has acknowledged that some the company's handsets contain a security hole involving the handling of certain data requests while connected to a Wi-Fi network.…
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IDC: Apple Passes LG To Become World's Third Largest Phone Vendor
Thanks to a strong fourth quarter, Apple has passed LG to become the world's third largest cell phone vendor by volume, according to new estimates…
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