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The options are increasing for people who want an LTE smartphone, but don't want to spend a fortune or sign an expensive contract. Two new alternatives that won't drain wallets are Nokia's Lumia 635 and the Huawei-made Kestrel. The Android-based Kestrel was announced last week by U.K. operator EE and costs £99 (US$160) with local taxes, while the Lumia 635 running Windows Phone 8.1 was announced ...

The device will apparently be the first with the Windows Phone updated called 'Blue'.

The Earin earbuds are small enough to be completely cable free.

The two most talked about smartphones ahead of this year's Mobile World Congress sit at opposites sides of the spectrum; the low-end Android-based Nokia X and Samsung Electronics' new flagship model, the Galaxy S5. The smartphone market has seen phenomenal growth in the last couple of years. But even if worldwide shipments increase, growth rates won't be as impressive, resulting in even tougher ...

Now that Microsoft has finally closed its acquisition of Nokia's devices and services business the company needs to accelerate efforts to attract more developers, help cut the cost of smartphones running Windows Phone and make sure its new employees feel welcome. Windows Phone may be the third largest smartphone OS, but its worldwide market share was only about 4 percent last year. Here are four ...

Rapper Nicki Minaj says she still feels overwhelming guilt from an abortion she had as a teenager, but admits it was the right choice for her at the time. The "Pills n Potions" rapper, now 32, told Rolling Stone that she terminated a pregnancy when she was still ...

Looking back on this last day of the year, I wonder how my daily tech changed so much since the first. On Jan. 1, 2014, my core computing comprised Chromebook, Nexus tablet, and Nexus smartphone. Midyear, I switched out to all Microsoft—buying Surface Pro 3 and Nokia Lumia Icon. While commendable the effort, Windows poorly fit my lifestyle. Today, I'm all Apple—13-inch MacBook Pro Retina Display ...

Samsung finally passes Apple, thanks to a strong year of growth in customer satisfaction; iPhone satisfaction is down 4% since 2012

TWENTY years ago, the idea of using one device to make calls, check the weather and get directions would've sounded like something from a sci-fi novel.

A decade may have passed since mobile malware showed up, but according to Fortinet Global security strategist, Derek Manky, the biggest shifts took place in the last two years. Manky said mobile malware a decade ago was in its infancy and limited in what it could do. Read our Guide to Using your Android Phone "There was a limitation not from a threat landscape, but from the platforms it could ...

A new report has revealed that Apple devices were a hugely popular Christmas gift this year, trumping smartphone rivals. Flurry’s annual Christmas report found that 51.3 percent of new devices activated on Christmas Day were manufactured by Apple, compared with 17.7 percent by Samsung and 5.8 percent by Nokia. Other major players in the global market, Xiaomi, HTC and Huawei, received less than ...

"We see this about face on strategy as yet another sign that Samsung is not quite sure what to do about Apple in the high end."

"We see this about face on strategy as yet another sign that Samsung is not quite sure what to do about Apple in the high end."

From EDM nightclubs to wide-open park lawns, New Year's Eve in Los Angeles is only getting bigger. That's especially good news for last-minute planners.

The Redmond tech giant has moved to make changes quickly under new CEO Satya Nadella, trying to become more nimble and more open to the changing habits and demands of tech users.

The Tarkwa Circuit Court on Tuesday sentenced Emmanuel Owusu, a 20 year-old cobbler and two teachers, Marfo Adade, 23, and Alfred Adade,19, to 54 months imprisonment in hard labour for stealing half bag of cocoa beans.

Mangaluru, Dec 31: Police personnel from Pandeshwar station here have succeeded in arresting a person in connection with theft of cash and other valuables from Milagres Church here sometime back.

The curious nuggets that emerged from 2014's news stories

Which Companies Won the Christmas Device Sales Battle?

Mercy Corps and its partner, BanKO, helps Filipinos set up mobile cash transfers in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Bogo, North Cebu Philippines. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps.

With a cool interface and some unique shooting capabilities, Camera360 for Windows Phone belongs in any photo enthusiast's app collection.

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Nicki Minaj spoke about racial politics and police violence in an interview for the latest Rolling Stone cover story. "It's gotten to the point where...

The Microsoft Lumia 735 was announced back in September, and alongside the Lumia 830 and 730 it was the first smartphone that Microsoft had built with its new Nokia toy. Microsoft claimed that it would arrive in the United States at some point, with the company listing the handset as "coming soon" on its US website. Major carriers like Sprint and Verizon also listed the smartphone. Read the full ...

Apple capped off a strong comeback year with a very merry Christmas. The iPhone 6 and other Apple smartphones and tablets accounted for 51.3 percent of all such devices activated in the week through December 25, according to data released Monday by app analytics provider Flurry. Christmas Day is an annual highpoint for new gadgets and related app downloads. “While the holidays in general and ...

Get an iPhone for Christmas? You're definitely not alone.

The 2015 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology and innovation event, takes place January 6-9, 2015, in Las Vegas, NV.

Get an iPhone for Christmas? You're definitely not alone.

UPM and Indicatorium Oy have entered into an agreement for the international commercialisation of the food freshness indicator technology developed by UPM

iPhones and iPads ruled during the holiday season. Nothing from the competition came close. Click to view a price quote on AAPL . Click to research the Consumer Durables industry.

In a recent study on the breakdown for Windows Phone OEMs across the world, AdDuplex found something unique. A small sliver of the overall metrics yielded results they hadn’t yet seen, and news Windows Phone fans might find exciting. It seems LG is in the testing phase for Windows Phone, as a previously unseen device tagged as LGVW820 popped up. LG … Continue reading

The smartphone in your pocket today makes whatever handset you had just two years ago look laughably bad. That's not just because of better sensors and better software; the apps that power them have improved in kind. Read more...

The 2015 International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology and innovation event, takes place January 6-9, 2015, in Las Vegas, NV.

According to new data from analytics firm Flurry, Apple devices accounted for more than half of device activations during Christmas holidays.

Jon Cryer, Portia de Rossi, Emily Deschanel, Donald Faison, Billy Gardell, Kristen Johnston, Katharine McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz, Eric Christian Olsen, Chris Pratt and Daniela Ruah are also on tap.

2014 was a rough year for smart glasses, if Google Glass was any indication. The connected headset, which still hasn't officially been launched, suffered a lot of criticism and even more mockery. Now it looks like even Google is stepping away from the device, pending a rethought design in 2015. Google's approach with Glass was to provide the wearer with what it called "glanceable" information ...

Not only did Apple win the battle for the hearts and minds of consumers the world over, but...

The author owns some Apple stock via an independently managed account. Investors used to have wait until Q4 earnings calls to see how their portfolios fared during holiday shopping. Not so in the new connected world. Flurry, a mobile analytics company that measures how users interact with mobile apps, has a [...]

Apple continues to be a holiday favorite with iPads and iPhones being delivered and activated far more than any other brand. Microsoft's low-cost Lumia strategy seems to be working too.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS announced today that Patricia Arquette, Matt Bomer, the cast of The Big Bang Theory (Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch), Jon Cryer, Viola Davis, Portia de Rossi, Emily Deschanel, Robert Downey Jr., Donald Faison, Billy Gardell, the cast of Grey’s Anatomy (Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James ...

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS announced today that Patricia Arquette, Matt Bomer, the cast of The Big Bang Theory , Jon Cryer, Viola Davis, Portia de Rossi, Emily Deschanel, Robert Downey Jr., Donald Faison, Billy Gardell, the cast of Grey’s Anatomy , Kristen Johnston, Katharine McPhee, Chloe Grace Moretz, Eric Christian Olsen, Chris Pratt and Daniela Ruah are scheduled to appear on the 2015 awards ...

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS announced today that Patricia Arquette, Matt Bomer, the cast of The Big Bang Theory , Jon Cryer, Viola Davis, Portia de Rossi, Emily Deschanel, Robert Downey Jr., Donald Faison, Billy Gardell, the cast of Grey’s Anatomy , Kristen Johnston, Katharine McPhee, Chloe Grace Moretz, Eric Christian Olsen, Chris Pratt and Daniela Ruah are scheduled to appear on the 2015 awards ...

Shanzhai: The disruptive potential of innovation from below. The word shanzhai can be used to describe anything that is non-official, underground and inexpensive with acceptable quality.

It is no exaggeration to say that the defining event of 2014 was the emergence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as India's most popular leader. In April 2012, Fareed Zakaria of CNN had predicted that the December 2012 Gujarat election would spell oblivion for Mr Modi. But exactly the opposite unfolded - it propelled him into national prominence.

Apple's dominance over the industry continued over Christmas, and this was always going to be Cupertino's Holiday Season after the huge success of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Several researchers have shown Apple's products vastly outperformed rival companies, while the iPhone 6 Plus even put a dent into the company's own iPad. Read the full story here.

Cars have been getting more clever, talking to your device, and exchanging status information with each other. in this post we show how IoT technology is leading us towards driverless cars that can safely take us wherever we want to go.

Leading smartphone makers enter a pact to protect handset owners against theft.

Santa put Apples under more than half of all the Christmas trees out there this year. According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, Apple (AAPL) accounted for 51 percent of new device activations worldwide during Christmas week.

An in-brief look at some of the most significant news events of the last 12 months, in chronological order: JANUARY 1 Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales to adults at licensed pot stores. Washington state followed suit in July. 3 Phil Everly, the ...

Data trickling in after the holiday tells the tale

According to Flurry's annual Christmas report, 51.3 percent of the devices activated over the holidays were made by Apple. By comparison, Samsung accounted for 17.7 percent of new activations and Nokia had 5.8 percent.

More than half of all new devices activated Christmas week were iPhones and iPads

An in-brief look at some of the most significant news events of the last 12 months, in chronological order: JANUARY 1 Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales to adults at licensed pot stores. Washington state followed suit in July. 3 Phil Everly, the ...

Microsoft Jumped 27% in 2014 -- Here's Why

New iPhone for Christmas? You're not the only one, not by a longshot.

At the end of 2014, the Windows Phone landscape is dominated by low-end smartphones. Of the ten most-popular devices that the platform has to offer, just two are high-end handsets -- however, neither is a current-day flagship. If it is not clear enough by now, Windows Phone is nothing more than a low-end affair, after more than four years down the road. Is that a bad thing? Nokia Lumia 520 is ...

Flurry, the mobile usage analytics firm acquired by Yahoo this past summer, has released its research on holiday season tablet and phone purchases as...

An in-brief look at some of the most significant news events of the last 12 months, in chronological order: JANUARY 1 Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales to adults at licensed pot stores. Washington state followed suit in July. 3 Phil Everly, the ...

Star of "The Big Bang Theory" takes to Instagram to clear up nose job rumors

The rapper says hosting ESPN awards show is an "incredible opportunity".

An in-brief look at some of the most significant news events of the last 12 months, in chronological order: JANUARY 1 — Colorado becomes the first U.S. state to allow recreational marijuana sales to adults at licensed pot stores. Washington state followed suit in July. 3 — Phil Everly, the youngest of the Everly Brothers, Read the Rest of the Entry

Santa put more Apples under the tree than any other device this year.

Santa put more Apples under the tree than any other device this year.

The last few years in the world of Android news have been kind of a snooze fest. Sure, we had the usual barrage of software updates and gadget releases, but nothing seemed truly worth a standing ovation. What’s worse: it felt like Android was no longer in Google’s control, and that companies like Samsung were actually the ones that were ruling the pack. It was hard to tell who to root for. But ...

After Apple and Samsung, which companies are selling the most smartphones around the globe?

Take that satsumas and walnuts

Apple products were the gift of choice this Christmas, after twice as many new devices were activated over Samsung phones and tablets during the week to December 25

Cheaper smartphones running Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system are on the way, a Microsoft executive said Wednesday. Speaking at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Microsoft's Nick Parker, who handles the company's partnerships with device makers, said the new handsets could be out by the end of the year. Compared to current models, which are in the "fours, fives and sixes," he said ...

An anonymous reader writes: It's interesting to look back a decade and see how the tech industry has changed. The mobile phone giants of 10 years ago have all struggled to compete with the smartphone newcomers. Meanwhile, the game console landscape is almost exactly the same. I'm sure few of us predicted Apple's rebirth over the past decade, and many of us thought Microsoft would have fallen a ...

Hollywood appears to be in two minds over Angelina Jolie. The post Angelina’s ‘£115m ego bath’ was first published on MoneyWeek .

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley hints at a world class tax regime.

The intimate relationship many of us have with our phones only seems happy. Anna Goldenberg says it can be damaging — but not for the reasons you might think. Click here for the rest of the article...

ReportsnReports.com adds “Telecom Billing Market and Revenue Management by Software (Mediation, Billing & Charging, and Others), by Services (Planning & Consulting, Operations & Maintenance, and Others), by Deployment Type and by Geography - Global Forecast to 2019” global research report to its store. (PRWeb December 30, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/telecom ...

Budget smartphones will rule the market in 2015.

After merging with China's Alibaba Group, local mobile browser developer UCWeb is seeking to accelerate its international expansion, and double its user base to 1 billion over the next three to five years. "We can now more boldly invest in our international business," said Yu Yongfu, head of the recently acquired browser business, on Thursday. Previously CEO of UCWeb, he is now president of ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will participate in Thursday's quarterly earnings call, a departure from the company's past practice, when former chief executive Steve Ballmer rarely joined calls with Wall Street analysts.

Nokia's ongoing tax dispute with Indian authorities has put an end to its plans to transfer a local smartphone factory over to Microsoft, as the software maker finalizes its takeover of the Finnish company's devices and services business.. Microsoft's roughly US$7 billion acquisition of Nokia's phone business is set to close on Friday. The factory in Chennai in south India was among Nokia assets ...

After successful tests in Boston and Silicon Valley , Starbucks says it is ready for a nationwide rollout of Duracell Powermat wireless charging stations. As with the rest of its wireless charging plans, the rollout will be slow starting first with stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. Starbucks says it will expand to other major markets across the country in 2015. Over time, the entire U.S ...

Hatsune Miku to perform at Anisong World Tour - Lantis Festival in Las Vegas on January 16-17

Firefox's user share on all platforms -- desktop and mobile -- has plunged in the last two months as its desktop browser continued to bleed and its attempt to capture users on smartphones failed to move the needle, new data shows. Apple's Safari fared almost as poorly since April, also losing significant user share, with a continued decline on mobile and a sudden slide on the desktop to blame ...

10 phones we're looking forward to in 2015 Mobile phone line-ups are a little like Hollywood movie franchises, and by now we have a pretty good idea of what we should be expecting to see over the next 12 months: all the big players will be producing sequels to their blockbusters of 2014 and we can look forward to better photos, faster performance and lighter handsets across the board. With the ...

Los Angeles (AFP) - "Modern Family" star Sofia Vergara -- America's best paid TV actress -- and Joe Manganiello of "True Blood" fame plan to tie the knot, US media reported. Colombian-born bombshell Vergara, 42, has been dating the American actor, 38, for six months since breaking off a relationship with businessman Nick Loeb. A spokesperson for Vergara, famous for playing Gloria Delgado on the ...

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Mobile analytics firm Flurry posted new data on the holiday buying season on Monday, and summarized its findings on global mobile devices purchases for Christmas in a single sentence: "It's clear that Santa is no longer into cookies -- he prefers Apples." On a worldwide scale, 51.3 percent of mobile activations between December 19 and Christmas Day were Apple devices, outstripping the combined ...

Waze is quick to spot trouble and suggest a clever route around it, but Waze has its quirks. There are a handful of dependable, free apps that can find the… Click to Continue »

The duo will team up for the first ever performance of their number one single.

If you turned on a new smartphone or tablet in the week leading up to Christmas, chances are it was built built by Apple.

Juniper Networks, as promised , this week announced a new integrated operating plan (IOP) to refocus the company on high growth segments in the networking industry. The plan attempts to streamline R&D and go-to-market programs, drive efficiencies in all areas of company operation, and return capital to shareholders. The IOP is the result of an ongoing review of the company's business and ...

New data from analytics firm Flurry says Apple and its iPhone dominated the holidays, with Samsung far behind.

iThings said to account for more than half of all activations Apple was by far the most popular brand of phones and tablets this Christmas, according to market researchers.…

As the Union finance ministry begins preparing the Budget for 2015-16, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday hinted at putting in place a globally compatible tax regime to revive the manufacturing sector.

OK, we all know Samsung is the biggest smartphone maker in the world, and Apple is No. 2. But do you have any idea who the third largest is? Lenovo? LG? Nokia? Sony? No, no, no and no. It's a Chinese company called Xiaomi.

The company which has overtaken Apple and Samsung in China to become the world's third biggest phone maker is now worth much more than household names like Sony and Nokia.

WASHINGTON & GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Internet Society today announced that it has appointed public relations professional James Wood to the newly created position of Senior Director, Strategic Communications and Media Relations.

European Union politicians have vowed to end the "nightmare" of non-compatible phone chargers. The European Parliament on Thursday gave its approval to introduce new common charger for rules for mobile phones and other portable devices such as tablets, digital cameras and music players. "The current incompatibility of chargers is a nightmare and a real inconvenience for consumers. This new ...

Research firm Flurry, the Yahoo-owned entity that tracks mobile analytics for over 600,000 cross-platform apps, has revealed some surprising statistics from the Christmas break. From December 19 through December 25, Flurry tracked new device activations and app downloads, and found that Apple ruled this holiday season. Over half of new device activations were Apple-branded devices, over twice as ...

Hundreds of workers at FIH India Pvt Ltd, formerly known as Foxconn India Private Limited, were arrested on Monday when they tried to force their entry into the factory, which remains closed since December 20. The company had announced suspension of operations citing lack of orders.

Chinese smartphone maker raises $1.1B USD in new round of venture capital investment

OK, we all know Samsung is the biggest smartphone maker in the world, and Apple is No. 2. But do you have any idea who the third largest is? Lenovo? LG? Nokia? Sony? No, no, no and no. It's a Chinese company called Xiaomi.

"You have to remember, there are... how many categories?" multiple-Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper says, attempting to describe her experience as the 2014...

It’s clear that Santa is no longer into cookies - he prefers Apples....

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OK, we all know Samsung is the biggest smartphone maker in the world, and Apple is No. 2. But do you have any idea who the third largest is? Lenovo? LG? Nokia? Sony? No, no, no and no. It's a Chinese company called Xiaomi.

This month , the board of directors of the US Olympic Committee approved America's bid for the summer Olympics in 2024—the first step in the long process of competing for the right to host the games. And it named four cities as the final bidders: LA, San Francisco, Boston, and D.C. Read more...

Well, she got it. After enduring more humiliation than previously imaginable, after alienating virtually everyone in her immediate circle, and after ignoring the Greek chorus of their collective repulsion, Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) got her happy ending on last night's Season 2 finale of The Comeback . Her hairdresser/confidant Mickey (Robert Michael Morris) survived another cancer-related ...

OK, we all know Samsung is the biggest smartphone maker in the world, and Apple is No. 2. But do you have any idea who the third largest is? Lenovo? LG? Nokia? Sony? No, no, no and no. It's a Chinese company called Xiaomi.

Veteran quarterback Kyle Orton announced Monday that he is retiring from the NFL.

Christmas is a time for contemplating important questions like "what do Taylor Swift and Hugh Jackman talk about when they hang out" and "does Drake...

Yes, yes, the best way to manage your Symbian smartphone, as an enthusiast, into 2015 is to use full custom firmware, such as Delight (e.g. as featured last week here ), but there's a halfway house if you want to retain all your legacy set-up, avoiding any reinstallations, and yet be able to install tasty 'unsigned' applications and utilities, which will become more and more commonplace as the ...

OK, we all know Samsung is the biggest smartphone maker in the world, and Apple is No. 2. But do you have any idea who the third largest is? Lenovo? LG? Nokia? Sony? No, no, no and no. It’s a Chinese company called Xiaomi. If you’ve never heard of Xiaomi, you will soon. Xiaomi just […]

You've probably never heard of Xiaomi, but it's the fastest-growing smartphone maker in the world.

Never heard of Xiaomi? It's the fastest-growing smartphone maker in the world.

Also in this story: Generations of networks | 5G goes global Phone technology races forward Four-by-four MIMO, beam forming, dual mode A new technology called four-by-four MIMO — multiple input, multiple output — ... Read more »

You've probably never heard of Xiaomi, but it's the fastest-growing smartphone maker in the world.

From a carrier price war to wearable technology, it was a busy 2014 for mobile -- and there's more to come next year.

The employees had been trying to gain entry in protest at the lack of any formal notice of closure

ICA in its budget recommendation has said that in absence of corrective measures, mobile exports from India will crash to zero in 2015.

Acacia Research Sources Rights In Addl. Patent Portfolios From Nokia Networks

10 phones we're looking forward to in 2015 Mobile phone line-ups are a little like Hollywood movie franchises, and by now we have a pretty good idea of what we should be expecting to see over the next 12 months: all the big players will be producing sequels to their blockbusters of 2014 and we can look forward to better photos, faster performance and lighter handsets across the board. With the ...

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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Acacia Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTG) announced today that a subsidiary has sourced rights in additional patent portfolios from Nokia Networks. With these new portfolios, Acacia’s subsidiary now controls marquee portfolios relating to 2G/3G/LTE and LTE-Advanced technologies. “We are rapidly becoming the leader in technology licensing and we continue ...

Verizon Wireless has reiterated plans to offer Voice over LTE (VoLTE) "later this year" nationwide to offer users both High Definition Voice and video calling options. In a statement posted yesterday, Verizon promised a "robust line-up of VoLTE-enabled smartphones when the service launches." A spokeswoman didn't offer specific dates for the VoLTE service launch, or names of new devices. In ...

Nokia has named the head of its networks division, Rajeev Suri, as its new CEO from May 1. He will take over from company chairman Risto Siilasmaa, who has been serving as acting CEO. On Tuesday it also reported a profit for its continuing operations, but a drop in sales and an overall loss for the first quarter. Nokia retains its networking equipment unit, the Here mapping business, and its ...

Tablet chargers can lose their coating, leaving electric wires exposed.

Rory looks back at 2014's big technology stories

This is the second time in a week that Foxconn employees have been detained by the police.

Tech industry bellwethers, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, weighed in this week with quarterly earnings and -- surprise! -- mobile and cloud offerings appear to be the key to their health. The earnings came out amid some upbeat market research about IT spending trends. For example, Forrester Research reported Thursday that U.S. spending on technology will rise 5.3 percent this ...

Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING - The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung. China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is moving to wrap up its 13-month investigation ...

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING - The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung. China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is moving to wrap up its 13-month investigation ...

Billy Bob Thornton says that awards have "very significant" impact on industry.

Band will perform as the latest artists for Nokia Lumia Live.

The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide ...

By Noel Randewich and Matthew Miller SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable ...

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung.

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung.

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung.

SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung.

The settlement of China's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely to intensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patent licensing business, and may even call into question its worldwide ...

By Noel Randewich and Matthew Miller SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The settlement ofChina's anti-trust probe into Qualcomm Inc is likely tointensify global scrutiny of the firm's highly profitable patentlicensing business, and may even call into question itsworldwide contracts with smartphone makers such as Apple andSamsung. China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC ...

Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will not change its Surface commercial sales model ahead of the launch of its Surface Pro 3 tablet in August. Existing distributors, Ingram Micro and Synnex Australia, will continue to supply the Windows 8.1-based 'laptop replacement' tablet to the resellers which stocked the previous generation of the product. The 13 commercial partners include Brennan IT ...

No one can say R. Kelly doesn’t follow through on a concept.

No one can say R. Kelly doesn’t follow through on a concept.

Sri Lanka mobile handset shipments continue to show consistent growth in both the Feature phone as well as Smartphone segments, making it among very few South East Asian markets where growth was seen in both segments.

Faced with a negative investment climate and in the absence of its charismatic leader Jayalalithaa at the helm, Tamil Nadu is betting big on the Global Investors Meet (GIM) here. The governm...

After venturing into the mobile phone market in 2008, homegrown handset maker Micromax touched Rs 1,978 crore in revenue in 2011-12. The following year, that figure soared to Rs 3,168 crore.

When we were children, video games meant a trip to the video game parlour or playing arcade games on 8-bit/16-bit "systems" connected to the TV. Cut to the present and one can game on PCs, consoles, handhelds, mobiles, tablets, browsers and even your smart TV. In 2015, gamers' horizons would be widened still.

The new Video Tuner editing app coincides with the launch of Nokia's Lumia 930.

Smartphones are a relatively recent invention: the first so-called smartphone, Ericsson's R380, didn't ship until early 2000. In the 1990s phones had modest specs, proprietary operating systems and the ability to make and receive phone calls, sometimes. Today's phones haven't improved much on the calling front - for all their noise cancelling and cleverness, they still drop calls like they're ...

Smartphones are a relatively recent invention: the first so-called smartphone, Ericsson's R380, didn't ship until early 2000. In the 1990s phones had modest specs, proprietary operating systems and the ability to make and receive phone calls, sometimes. Today's phones haven't improved much on the calling front - for all their noise cancelling and cleverness, they still drop calls like they're ...

Lytro, the company whose light field camera technology made waves a few years ago , is back with even fancier hardware. The Lytro Illum is a $1,600 camera that, much like its cheaper predecessor , captures data on millions of rays of light, including their color, intensity and direction. This allows users to refocus their photos after the shot is taken. The difference this time is that the Illum ...

Global System Management Software Market 2015-2019 is a new industry research report which profiles key players like BMC Software Inc., CA Technologies Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and VMware Inc. (PRWeb December 27, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/systems-management/software-market-2019/prweb12416062.htm

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Samsung dominates market share, followed by Apple then Lenovo

The £99 (US$160) price for U.K. carrier EE's smartphone Kestrel without a contract gives a glimpse of a future with low-cost LTE devices, and is also an aggressive move by Qualcomm as competition in the chipset sector increases. Smartphones such as the Motorola Moto G and the Lumia 520 from Nokia lack LTE support, but a burgeoning chip war and the technology's growing popularity will help ...

Late Fast & Furious actor will be remembered at this weekend's ceremony.

The Samsung Galaxy S5, which went on sale Friday, comes with an "astronomical" cost for materials of $251.52 for the 32 GB version, according to a teardown estimate by IHS Technology. The S5's materials cost is 21% hgher than the $207 cost for the 32 GB iPhone 5S , based on IHS's pricing last September. It also costs Samsung $51 more for the parts used in an S5 than what it costs for a U.S ...

Ellen Reeher of St. Paul hadn't intended to join the gigantic-smartphone revolution.

In 2014, smartphones thinned down, screens fattened up and software moved to the cloud (again). But, amid those advancements, some technology-industry classics went out with a blaze, while others were unceremoniously put out to pasture before they ever really got off the ground. Here’s a closer look at what the tech world lost in the past 12 months. Aereo

Samsung dominates market share, followed by Apple then Lenovo

Over five hundred families of overseas Filipino workers and those vacationing from abroad gathered at Club Filipino in Greenhills, San Juan City for the third annual Happy OFW Christmas party organized by the Blas F. Ople Policy Center and Training Institute last December 16. It was a joyous occasion with our OFW guests dancing, singing, […]

The major technology shifts under way -- the move to cloud-based services and reduced importance of the data center, the growth of mobile devices and apps and related decline in use of traditional PCs, and the greater emphasis on big data/analytics rather than traditional analytics -- are having a huge impact on corporate IT. But what do these shifts mean for key vendors in the industry? Which ...

Sprint doubled down on high quality smartphone sound on Tuesday by introducing an exclusive version of the HTC One (M8) featuring HD Audio sound. The HTC One (M8) Harman Kardon edition is available from Sprint for $230 and a two-year contract. (Photo: Sprint) The HTC One (M8) Harman Kardon edition will take advantage of the M8's front-facing stereo speakers and custom amplifiers for speakers and ...

The year 2014 was an year of various advancements and innovations in different fields.

As BlackBerry's phone sales and overall revenue continue to freefall , the company's push to reimagine itself as a cross-platform business software provider continues. BlackBerry brought its iconic Messenger service to iOS and Android late last year with great success , and in an earnings call Thursday morning, CEO John Chen provided a more concrete timeline for the instant messaging service's ...

The year 2014 was an year of various advancements and innovations in different fields.

The move sparks rumours that Lumia phones could incorporate Canon tech.

Microsoft has announced a free update for all Windows Phone 8 smartphones, adding a notification centre, a Siri-like personal assistant and new home screen options. Here’s all you need to know about Windows Phone 8.1 including release date and new features. Microsoft details Cortana UK release date. See also: Hands-on review of the Nokia Lumia 930 Windows Phone 8.1: Release date First of all, it ...

I took more than 10,000 still images with more than 20 phones released in 2014. I used the rear cameras and refrained from using the flash so that I could test the phones' low-light capabilities. Here are three standout smartphone cameras.

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Multimedia users craving movies, photos and music on the go will appreciate Sony's Xperia T2 Ultra Dual. It's a 6in smartphone designed for the content-hungry, and as of this week, it'll go on sale for less than $500. One trait in particular will set the T2 Ultra dual apart from the plethora of smartphones available. The 'Dual' in its moniker refers to its ability to accommodate two SIM cards ...

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This year our lunch guests spanned the gamut from mining and airline CEOs to purveyors of fine fashion and television personalities. Here are their best nuggets of wisdom and stories that made us stop, think and smile

Between "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1" and "X-Men: Days of Future Past," her movies have grossed $1.4 billion this year

If Apple were to launch a 5.5-inch iPhone 6 later this year it would be beneficial to both the vendor and the wider 'phablet' market, according to Telsyte. The analyst firm claims a larger-screen iPhone would be a strong strategy for Apple, and allow it to reclaim lost market share in Australia. Based on its 'Australian Smartphone Market Study 2014 to 2018' which surveyed 1018 individuals aged ...

There was a strong theme of self-congratulation in this week's iOSphere rumors about the iPhone 6: we already "know" so much about this phone, and of course about Apple's plans. Or at least about what Apple should be doing. Or anyway, damn- it, about what's really important in smartphones. We know so much, in fact, that one blogger boldly proclaimed the iPhone 6 is already a loser. Another ...

Though Nokia is now owned by Microsoft, the company continues to release Lumia phones as the range continues to be one of the most in-demand phones around. The Lumia 730 is a dual SIM phone that is a hit in the Asian market. Meanwhile, though Samsung appears to be bigger, better, and more costly with each flagship phone release, it hasn't forgotten its midrange line such as the Samsung Galaxy ...

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The standoff between Foxconn India and its workers’ union on reopening the company’s cellphone components plant continues, with the management insisting that it does not have adequate orders to carry on operations at the factory near Chennai.

From productivity to email to operating systems to mobile to hardware, David Gewirtz is no longer actively using Microsoft products. He's not a Microsoft hater. The transition just happened organically as he adopted products that better served his needs.

Windows Phone to get boost as Microsoft announces it will close the deal on its Nokia acquisition this week. See also : Microsoft buys Nokia - 5 things we now know, and one key question. The software giant has confirmed that Nokia Devices and Services will be part of the Microsoft business as of 25 April. The necessary steps have been taken on the deal which was first announced in September last ...

As previously reported, Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" leads the Billboard Hot 100 for a sixth week, while Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring...

Some of the best and newest phones look good, with some coming in an aluminum finish, while others are encased in a matte or shiny black or white coat. However, those who are looking for phones with more pizzazz may want to check out any of these two phones—the iPhone 5C and Nokia Lumia 520, which come in fun colors, sure to attract attention anywhere.

(MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The year 2014 witnessed a host of events at different levels that have constituted major challenges to people around the globe.The internation...

If you are mulling the idea of buying a smartphone with great specs in the sub-50K range, then these five launched in 2014 are worth a look.

The fourth round of tripartite talks between the management, union leaders of Foxconn employees and the assistant labour commissioner of Sriperumbdur remained inconclusive on Friday. The next meeting is scheduled for December 31.

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BANGALORE: Nokia likely to hold an event in China to launch Nokia’s N1 Android Tablet on January 7, according to Chinese website Sina Tech, reports NDTV Gadgets.

The latest Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth media blast shares new details on Omnimon, new character Goro Matayoshi, new Cyberspace hackers, and the recently confirmed Digi-Lab and Digi-Farm features. Get the full details below. Nokia and Omnimon The battle against the hackers is intensifying, and the Digimon are getting wounded. In order to protect the Digimon, […] Read Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth ...

Samsung and Apple are the leading handset manufacturers in the world, but when it comes to which one can drive the mobile market for wireless charging, Samsung looks like the bigger player.

Interbrand’s best global brands ranking for 2014 might be lacking the surprise element, but this year’s report has come up some new terminologies that beg some attention in this age of branding.

ATPWorldTour.com bids farewell to the players who announced their retirements from professional tennis in 2014. [[More Tennis News on ATPWorldTour.com]]

Esra Erimez writes It's been a little over a year since the announcement of Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Finnish tech veteran Nokia Oyj.'s Devices unit. A year later Chinese leaks site SINA Tech says Nokia is back and ready to compete against its former unit, suggesting it will launch in China on Jan. 7. As one commenter on the Daily Tech story points out (as does this ExtremeTech article ...

Critics have derided Microsoft's US$7.5 billion acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services business but the deal may be closing at the perfect moment -- during a slowdown in smartphone innovation. The acquisition closed Friday after an almost eight-month long approval process. The new subsidiary, dubbed the Microsoft Mobile and the Devices division and headed by former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop ...

Bike Repair App have step-by-step guides with gorgeous images that makes it easy to repair your stuff.This application demystify every...

Flash storage company Nimble has challenged hybrid flash vendors EMC and Netapp with the launch it new Adaptive Flash Platform. Nimble Storage, director of marketing and Technology, Gavin Cohen told ARN the new CS700 Series Array and All-Flash shelf had the ability to combine all flash arrays with hybrid flash on a single platform. "Flash is completely pervasive in the storage industry and has ...

The smartphone market has, for the most part, become one of preference; from a hardware, software, and usability ( not a market share perspective), there is no real down-right winner, as each vendor's flagship model carries the same number of pros and cons as the next. HTC definitely won its fair share of fans with the One (M7), and is on the right track to do the same with the One (M8) . That ...

It seems everything in the tech world was bigger and better in 2014. From ballooning smartphones to a tidal wave of Uber, it was the year consumers reaped the benefits of an increasingly digital age.

Indicating that there were no more production orders at its Sriperumbudur unit near here, Taiwan-based electronics parts maker Foxconn today said all its employees were placed on "paid-holiday-leave" status.

With companies closing mobile phone assembling plants throughout Africa due to stiff competition from China, Ethiopia has emerged as the only country in region to have a number of assembling plants in operation. What's more, they are exporting handsets to other markets in Africa. Techno Mobile is among the companies in Ethiopia that is exporting handsets. Last year the company said it planned to ...

Nokia will be the first smartphone company to make a Windows Phone compatible with two SIM cards. The company, which is currently being acquired by Microsoft, announced the release of two new smartphones at the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco. The Lumia 630 and Lumia 635 are almost identical spec-for-spec, apart from one key difference: the 630 snubs 4G compatibility in favour of ...

A leaked document suggests that Google is going to force smartphone makers to use the latest version of Android . Google's Android mobile operating system has come under criticism for the slow uptake of new versions. With the latest version, 4.4 KitKat , only on 1.8 percent of devices things are about to get shaken up. The online search giant is going to crack the whip with its manufacturing ...

These things are ripe for an overhaul in the new year. One day I woke up and realized it had been years since I'd thought about my old Dell Axim X30 personal digital assistant (PDA), let alone touched one. The device quickly became extinct, replaced by other technology forging ahead. PDAs are the ancestors of our modern mobile phones, in the same way a lot of the items we're currently carrying ...

The move will allow users of the California app to make voice calls to contacts in the same way they would send a message.

Yesterday, Nielsen released its first quarter 2014 smartphone market share numbers for the United States, including numbers for the leading smartphone OS options and the leading device manufacturers. Nielsen's order of companies in the Q1 2014 report changed slightly since early-to-mid 2013. In the OS category, Android still leads the pack with 52 percent of the overall U.S. market, according to ...

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Nokia's newest Asha phones are getting an OS upgrade that adds the company's free MixRadio music service, camera features and integration with Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service. The Asha 500, 501, 502, 503 and 230, both single and dual SIM (subscriber identity module) variants, will get the software upgrade, the company said Monday. They all run a proprietary OS called Nokia Asha ...

There are certain technologies that are seriously underrated. Mobile High-definition Link, or MHL, is one of those.

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Firefox's user share on all platforms -- desktop and mobile -- has plunged in the last two months as its desktop browser continued to bleed and efforts to capture users on smartphones fell short.

A number of Nokia's (now Microsoft's) Lumia handsets are getting the bump to the new Lumia Denim software in Malaysia. The handsets in question are the Nokia Lumia 525, Nokia Lumia 720, and Nokia Lumia 620, and all are now receiving the build number 8.10.14219.341 of Denim. The update is arriving OTA and I presume this means it is ready to sweep worldwide. Read the full story here.

NEW YORK (AP) - Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

In October 2014, Symantec succumbed to analysts' and investors' pressure and announced its decision to split.

After years of relentless litigation, it seems the mobile/smartphone patent war might be drawing to a close. Rockstar, a patent trolling company owned by Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Ericsson, and BlackBerry, has agreed to cancel the lawsuits it had filed against Google and most Android device makers. This follows on from news this summer that Apple and Google had agreed to drop all lawsuits between ...

Savage competition has seen the gap separating Apple's iPad from a slew of Android tablets close. Ambassadors of Android, particularly Samsung and Sony, have learnt how to couple the refined OS with capable hardware. The result: better products for less. This comparison takes the two most competitive tablets, Samsung's Galaxy NotePro 12.2 and Sony's Xperia Z2 Tablet, and measures how they stand ...

For indoor and night shots, the iPhone often manages to avoid the image blur that many other cameras produce when shutters stay open longer to let in more light.

It seems everything in the technological world was bigger and better in 2014, but what can we expect in 2015?

Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

New budget handset from Microsoft-owned Nokia runs Android.

Aggressive retail push from manufacturers and new smartphone launches fuel 41.67% growth

After Nokia and Foxconn, labour trouble is now brewing at Renault Nissan’s plant in the city.

Acer has confirmed it will launch two new budget priced smartphones at MWC next week, the Liquid E3 and Liquid Z4. Aiming to take on the king of the budget market, Motorola's Moto G , Acer has announced the Liquid Z4 smartphone which will launch at under £100 in April. Acer said the handset is designed for 'those who enjoy taking photos, browsing the internet and using social media'. See also ...

Steve Jobs' famous Thoughts on Flash article from April 2010 marked the beginning of the end for Adobe Flash's future on mobile. Jobs listed several reasons why iOS wouldn't support Flash. At the time, Mobile Flash was seen as a pretty hot technology and a great way to create cross-platform apps - if only Apple would just get with the times and approve it for the iPhone. Not supporting Flash was ...

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico expects to receive first reports next month from field tests that will lay the groundwork for a new national mobile broadband network, the Communications and Transport Ministry said on Tuesday. Mexico is looking for a group of private companies to help it launch a national mobile broadband network on a 700 megahertz (MHz) wireless spectrum to help spur competition ...

So, what can you give a billionaire like Puregold founder Lucio Co for Christmas that is guaranteed to make him smile? A Nokia E52, apparently.

Nokia has unveiled its Treasure Tag device, which can help people use their smartphones to find valuables like keys or a bag by putting a tag on them. The tags, which come with an accompanying app, will be compatible with Nokia Lumia phones with the Black software update, Nokia said Wednesday . There will also be third-party applications for Android and iOS devices available, the company said ...

Jobs listing suggests the firm is reinstating Here Maps on third-party devices

The iPhone 6 goes head-to-head with Samsung Galaxy S5, LG G3, HTC One M8, Nokia Lumia 930, Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and Google Nexus 5 in the ultimate smartphone showdown.

The Nokia faithful has been waiting in breathless anticipation for the arrival of the company's first Android tablet, and that patience is about to be rewarded - assuming you live in China. GSM Arena (via Sina Technology ) reported Monday that the world's first Android tablet built by Nokia may finally break cover on January 7, although it's unclear if the device will launch or actually go on ...

Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore. Of course, a phone is never going to replace a full-bodied, single-lens reflex camera, otherwise known as an SLR. There's just no way to squeeze a powerful, SLR-type lens into the...

China deployed huge numbers of TD-LTE base stations last year and India led the world in growth in cellular packet microwave systems, according to analysts at Dell'Oro Group.

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Samsung’s Tizen-powered flagship may not be vaporware after all. The first Tizen phone may launch as soon as January, according to a leak from an online retailer. SamMobile reports that the phone is called the Samsung Z1, and it’s expected to launch in India first. The Z1’s specifications are decidedly low-end: a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 768MB of RAM, 4GB of onboard storage, a 3-megapixel ...

Google's (GOOGL) new Android software is now equipped to attract photography buffs with its ability to capture raw images.

Arrested Foxconn employees being taken in a bus on Tuesday. Nearly 250 workers of Foxconn (FIH Ltd) along with union leaders, including A Soundararajan of CITU, were arrested this afternoon when they tried to forcibly enter the company’s factory in Sriperumbudur.

How far would Sofia Vergara go to stay youthful? She'd apply cement around her eyes if it would prevent wrinkles, she quips. [New Beauty]

How far would Sofia Vergara go to stay youthful? She'd apply cement around her eyes if it would prevent wrinkles, she quips. [New Beauty]

Microsoft won in software by selling its Windows suite to the biggest firms. Scott Guthrie's job is to reach the smallest.

Microsoft dominated the software industry by selling its Windows suite to the biggest companies. Scott Guthrie's job is to reach some of the smallest.

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Three large companies – Nokia, Jabil and BYD – in Sriperumbudur have closed down. Now, Foxconn has suspended production and workers fear that it too will shut shop soon.

NEW YORK (AP) — Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

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There was some bad news too. However, the high for the telecom industry was the growing demand for data services and smartphones.

Here is a list of the best smartphones that were released in 2014.

Samsung's Galaxy S5 bristles with features. Some we care very little for, but others make it one of the best smartphones available on shop shelves today. Here are the top 5 reasons to love the Samsung Galaxy S5. 5. Great camera The 16MP camera on the Samsung Galaxy S5 sets it apart from the 4MP cam on the HTC One (M8) . The camera is adept to a wide range of lighting conditions, has a range of ...

Holiday shoppers can save some bucks on a Surface Pro 3, various ultrabooks, Xbox One consoles and assorted accessories.

Nokia's recently announced N1 tablet is a monumental device in the company's history as the Finnish giant is starting all over again. After selling its devices division to Microsoft, Nokia is starting as a new entity and this is its first hardware step in a new direction. The N1 is pretty good, if a little too close to the iPad Mini, and it reminds us that Nokia actually knows how to make a ...

As the stand-off between employees and Taiwan-based Foxconn continued over suspension of production at its plant here, the management has notified that it would offer severance package or VRS to workers.

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[...] a phone is never going to replace a full-bodied, single-lens reflex camera, otherwise known as an SLR. Last year, I declared the iPhone 5s to be the best camera phone overall. For indoor and night shots, the iPhone often manages to avoid the image blur that many other cameras produce when shutters stay open longer to let in more light. The Note's AMOLED screen technology contributes to ...

Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 chart now officially incorporates data from Spotify, which launched in the country last Sept. Nielsen began tracking the...

Sriperumbudur , (PTI) As the stand-off betweenemployees and Taiwan-based Foxconn continued over suspensionof production at its plant here, the management has notifiedthat it would offer

Tech industry bellwethers, including Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, weighed in this week with quarterly earnings and -- surprise! -- mobile and cloud offerings appear to be the key to their health.

If you are looking for gift ideas for that music lover for Christmas, or any occasion for that matter, you have no shortage of choices in the Bluetooth speaker department. They are everywhere, even in gas stations. We have a half dozen in my house of all shapes and sizes, and I have reviewed numerous […]

PathSense recently released its SDK and API to provide location services with 90% less battery drain than GPS. Here's how it is changing mobile location technology.

Four decades ago, Rami Levy arrived every weekday morning at dawn to hawk produce at Jerusalem's open-air market. The work wasn't lucrative, but as a school dropout from a poor family, he couldn't complain. ...

About 200 workers of Foxconn in Sriperumbudur facility were taken into custody by the police after the workers tried to gatecrash into the factory premises.

NEW YORK (AP) — Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

It's only been a few short months since Nokia announced the Android-powered X smartphones but it has now announced a follow-up in the form of the Nokia X2. Read : Nokia X and X hands-on review: Nokia does budget Android smartphones. At MWC we saw the launch of the Nokia X, X and XL smartphones, all running Google's Android operating system. Despite being taken over by Microsoft, which makes ...

MWC kicks off next week and we're expecting Samsung to launch the Galaxy S5 . The hotly anticipated smartphone's rumoured fingerprint scanner has now been detailed. Unpacked 5 will likely be where Samsung unveils the Galaxy S5 and a key feature will be its fingerprint scanner. A consistent source for Samsung related news, SamMobile has managed to obtain details on the technology. See also ...

Billed as a Christmas present to the Symbian community, the Delight Custom Firmware (CFW) team has published v1.5 of its eponymous and rather excellent custom firmware - there's nothing critical that forces anyone happy with Delight v1.4 to update, but completists and enthusiasts (like me) will want to anyway!

Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

[...] a phone is never going to replace a full-bodied, single-lens reflex camera, otherwise known as an SLR. Last year, I declared the iPhone 5s to be the best camera phone overall. For indoor and night shots, the iPhone often manages to avoid the image blur that many other cameras produce when shutters stay open longer to let in more light. The Note's AMOLED screen technology contributes to ...

NEW YORK — Phones have gotten so good at taking photos that I rarely bring along a stand-alone camera anymore.

Microsoft claims its app ecosystem is growing faster than Apple or Android, and now has more than 255,000 apps. The Windows Phone Store is adding about 500 apps a day, while download rates have hit 10 million per day, the company said. There are now also more than 510,000 registered Windows Phone developers, with those developers producing apps with a 3.9/5 app rating on average for the top 50 ...

Ross Kirton is jailed for more than three years after dealing drugs in Iceland car park in Reading.

Americans often cite the importance of Florida politics to explain why relations between the United States and Cuba have been frozen for more than a half century.

If you've been holding out for a Surface 2 with LTE connectivity, you shouldn't have to wait much longer. The FCC has approved a "portable computing device" from Microsoft, with a 10.6-inch display--the same screen size as the Surface 2--and support for AT&T's LTE and HSPA networks. Engadget first spotted the FCC filing . The filing doesn't reveal anything about the LTE Surface 2 that we didn't ...

Samsung’s Tizen-powered flagship may not be vaporware after all. The first Tizen phone may launch as soon as January, according to a leak from an online retailer. SamMobile reports that the phone is called the Samsung Z1, and it’s expected to launch in India first. The Z1’s specifications are decidedly low-end: a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 768MB of RAM, 4GB of onboard storage, a 3-megapixel ...

Tickets go on sale Tuesday for a just-announced New Year’s Eve performance by Jennifer Lopez at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Tickets go on sale Tuesday for a just-announced New Year’s Eve performance by Jennifer Lopez at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Tickets go on sale Tuesday for a just-announced New Year’s Eve performance by Jennifer Lopez at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Nokia is giving developers the tools to write Windows Phone apps that lets users do more with their photos, like combine shots taken with the front and back cameras. Nokia is continuing to bet on camera hardware and software to help differentiate its products, and part of this push is the latest Nokia Imaging SDK beta, version 1.2. The Local Blending API makes it possible to combine and position ...

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Markets are trading higher this morning due to a rebound in the price of oil. Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi said at a conference in Abu Dhabi at the weekend that the market will recover and fossil fuel will remain the main source of energy for decades to come.

LAHAD DATU: The magistrate’s court here yesterday jailed a local man and two foreigners who are members of Geng Lolong for housebreaking.

Google's latest version of its mobile OS is an improvement, but it's still a resource hog, laggy and highly unstable.

The smartphone market is starting to feel like a two horse race. No, it?s not the Apple and Samsung show anymore, but it is increasingly feeling like Chinese companies versus everyone else. Typically it is thought that if a device is to be successful it needs to be a global success, such as the iPhone and the Galaxy S3. However, Chinese companies are showing that if you are big in China alone ...

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Colour me as completely unsurprised, but Nokia Suite has been updated after a long gap, not to add features, but to remove them - specifically support for the online Nokia Store for applications, which is closing for good in the next few months . In fact, the update was sorely needed, since logging into the Store was broken now anyway.

By looking at the sheer number of 2014’s smartphone queries in Yahoo Search, we’ve culled 10 of the most popular devices on the market today, and why. Here’s our countdown to most searched phone of the year so far (hint: top spot isn’t an iPhone).

2014 has been a year of major changes at Microsoft, not the least of which was the naming of Satya Nadella to replace Steve Ballmer as CEO. But the company also registered plenty of changes across its product lines, making way for new offerings by scuttling or renaming old ones. Here's a look back at 2014 (and here's the 2013 graveyard ): Nick Perla, Flickr Windows XP support To read this ...

Handset potentially saves its owner's life during an incident in Brazil.

In a set of light field pictures freshly commissioned by Lytro, the glaciers and verdant stretches of Iceland take on this new life.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will not change its Surface commercial sales model ahead of the launch of its Surface Pro 3 tablet in August.

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Mr. Orlove forced me to become a Peugeot 205 GTi owner. Thanks Raphael. Really, thank you. I can now say from experience they're truly great cars. I bought mine in August this year, a car that provided a solid basis but which needed a lot of love. And love it received. I haven't driven it that much just yet, but I think I can now form an informed opinion. Read more...

Microsoft has confirmed that the Nokia Lumia 930 will launch this month in the UK. Here are all the details you need on the Lumia 930 price and release date. See also: 35 best smartphones: The best phone you can buy in 2014. Still launching under the Nokia brand, the Lumia 930 will go on sale in the UK on 17 July, Microsoft confirmed today. It will be priced from £33 per month on a contract at ...

Viber’s founder and CEO, Talmon Marco, announces “We’ve gone public” as a statement to introduce Viber’s new feature called Public Chats.

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T.I. is now stepping up on Twitter to give his opinion about the recent onslaught of critcism against Iggy Azalea, which started when Azealia Banks...

Microsoft will webcast the opening keynote address from its Build developers conference today starting at 8:30 a.m. PT (11:30 a.m. ET). The broadcast can be viewed from Microsoft's Channel 9 website . Microsoft, as usual, has not revealed the keynote speakers, but it is likely that the event will be kicked off by new CEO Satya Nadella, who made his first public appearance last week , when the ...

Sophisticated tracking technology, the likes of which you might associate with governments or big companies, may soon be in consumers' hands, homes, cars and local stores.

1st copies of March game come with product code for black-colored Agumon, Gabumon

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Samsung is expected to announce its Galaxy S5 smartphone in a week's time and the device could go on sale this month. The suggestive ' Unpacked 5 ' event will take place next Monday in Barcelona where the smartphone and tablet tech show, MWC, takes place. Samsung will almost certainly unveil the Galaxy S5 and O2 might have given away the phone's release date. See also : Samsung Galaxy S5 ...

From the novel to the wince-worthy (and sometimes both at once), these handset "firsts" and "bests" helped define our year in smartphones.

Microsoft today officially closed its $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia's handset business, welcoming approximately 30,000 new employees to its rolls. As expected , the new unit has been named "Microsoft Mobile Oy," and will act as a subsidiary. "Oy" is the Finnish equivalent to "Ltd." or "LLC," a limited liability company in the U.K. and the U.S., and to "GmbH" in Germany. Microsoft Mobile will ...

Microsoft will be in the smartphone manufacturing business as of this Friday, the day it expects to close the acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business. Microsoft has successfully completed all the legal and regulatory hurdles of purchasing the division of the Finnish telecommunications equipment provider, according to a blog entry posted Monday by Brad Smith, Microsoft general ...

In the grand scheme of things, one doesn't really pay attention to web browsers besides the usual Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari. With these often pre-installed on computers or devices, users rarely feel the need to move away from them. Unless of course they're looking for newer features, or encounter particularly adverse browsing experiences. But all web browsers are, at the end of the day ...

Microsoft on Wednesday teased a touch-first Office for Windows 8.1, but contrary to many experts' expectations, previewed only one app and declined to define a release window. During the three-hour keynote address that opened Microsoft's Build developers conference, Kirk Koenigsbauer, the executive who leads the company's Office product group, spent a few minutes demonstrating a touch-based ...

Kotaku UK's three main contributors share five favourite games each from 2014. Read more...

The Guardian’s pick of Android apps that launched for the first time this year, taking in music, productivity, messaging, maps and more • The best Android games of 2014 What we say: Mailbox is one of the better ways to attain the fabled Inbox Zero – or at least try to – by swiping unwanted emails aside like they’re unwanted matches in Tinder. Slick design, its integration with Gmail and the ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the new Lumia 630 smartphone with Windows Phone 8.1 will be released on 29 May at £89. See also : Nokia Lumia 630 and Lumia 635 hands-on review: Affordable Windows Phone 8.1 smartphones. Originally announced by Nokia before its acquisition, the Microsoft Devices Lumia 630 will arrive with a budget price tag to take on Motorola's recently announced Moto E . The Lumia ...

NEW DELHI: To cash in on the next generation high-speed mobile data services, Chinese telecom gear maker Huawei today said it has plans to launch 4G smartphones for less than Rs 10,000 within six months.

TE Raja Simhan Foxconn has two facilities in the campus of Nokia Special Economic Zone and SIPCOT Industrial park at Sriperumbudur with an outlay of about Rs 850 crore.

Who knew they had such great dancing chemistry? When Harry Styles and Kristen Wiig got to the Saturday Night Live bash, which took place after the...

HashiCorpMitchell Hashimoto CEO HashiCorp At the ripe old age of 25, Mitchell Hashimoto, CEO and co-founder of a promising young startup called HashiCorp, has already had a lucrative 12-year career in tech. He launched his first tech startup when he was 12. “I wanted to cheat video games,” he laughs. “I did Cheat Neopets, web game cheats. For $25/month you got whatever cheats I found. It did ...

The NDA will definitely announce its CM candidate for the 2016 assembly elections, BJP president Amit Shah said on Sunday.

Court disagreed with Nokia’s claim that charger is composite part of phone

The Nokia Lumia 520 is the most popular Windows phone to date - and that's no surprise, given its tiny sub-£100 price and good range of features. But soon it will have some competition in the form of the Nokia Lumia 530. Here's everything we know about the Lumia 530, including release date, price and specs. Also see our Nokia Lumia 520 review . Nokia Lumia 530: release date and price With Nokia ...