Sony Ericsson pays the price for being late
In the good old day, companies could delay the launch of a mobile phone while you sorted out minor problems. However, Sony Ericsson is discovering that the market now is moving too fast and that if you...
View ArticleAndroid is "secret sauce"
Apple is losing some of its smartphone market share, while Android supporters like HTC, Samsung, and Motorola are seeing substantial growth, according to the latest figures from research firm...
View ArticleMobile phone market grows in Q3 thanks to smartphones
The global mobile phone market grew by 14.6 percent in the third quarter of 2010 research has found. According to International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report,...
View ArticlePalmPad tablets, Creative sound card, Gigabyte motherboard explored
Sketches of HP's upoming PalmPad tablet PCs have leaked, along with a few details of what we can expect, according to ExpertReviews. There will apparently be four versions, all of which will run webOS...
View ArticleToshiba tablet, Nexus S overclocked, EVO Shift 4G spotted
Toshiba is working on a 10.1-inch Android tablet, according to Engadget. The unnamed device will be powered by a dual-core Tegra 2 processor and will come with two cameras, a five megapixel one on the...
View ArticleAndroid bug that sends texts to wrong people to be fixed
A major Android bug that sends your text messages to the wrong recipient is set to finally be addressed after lying unfixed for over six months.The bug was reported on June 28 by a Nexus One user with...
View ArticleMicroUnity sues entire IT industry
America; the land of the free, Mom’s freshly baked apple pie, and the constant looming threat of a lawsuit. Californian firm MicroUnity can certainly call itself a patriot after whipping up an...
View ArticleHTC shows off high-end Sensation 4G Android phone
HTC has been wowing the tech press with its new Android smartphone, offering the Sensation 4G. The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer said that the Sensation will debut in Europe in mid-May alongside...
View ArticleAndroid rules roost in UK handset market
Samsung might not be having the best time in the corporate world but its handsets are still doing it proud. According to uSwitch's Mobile Tracker, the company's Galaxy S II handset has kept it at the...
View ArticleTerrified Apple tries to block imports of HTC tablets
It seems that Apple is so terrified that HTC tablets will give its keyboardless netbook a caning that it is trying to get an import restriction imposed against the company. Apple claims HTC is...
View ArticleHTC's S3 appeals pro-Apple ITC ruling
Taiwan's popular maker of smartphones, HTC, is appealing an International Trade Commission ruling which favours Apple over its new subsidiary S3 Graphics. The patent spat, running concurrently against...
View ArticleHTC devices leak heaps of private data
It turns out that the slew of HTC devices the Taiwanese company is fighting to keep in shops are allegedly leakier than a paper sieve. The clever-clogs over at Android Police spent some time looking...
View Article"Silicon Graphics" rises from the dead to troll six big mobile outfits
An outfit which was formerly known as Silicon Graphics has taken on six of the biggest names in the mobile phone industry. Graphics Properties Holdings claims that by selling mobile telephones Apple,...
View ArticleHTC suffers another blow
Smartphone maker HTC is seeing two of its phones blocked by US Customs. The Taiwanese company has not been doing very well lately and needs to turn around sales in what used to be its largest market....
View ArticleHTC phones given customs all clear
HTC has announced that its latest smartphones have passed a US customs review and are no longer covered by an ITC injunction. Earlier this month HTC feared that US sales of two new smartphones, the HTC...
View ArticleEvo Morales' plane diverted in Snowden hunt
The US government is starting to get more desperate in its attempts to arrest PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden. Bolivia is furious after president Evo Morales' plane was diverted on a flight from...
View ArticleVenezuela offers asylum to Edward Snowden
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro had offered asylum to the former US intelligence contractor on Friday and it was just a matter of getting him out of Russia with no one noticing. The timing of the...
View ArticleEdward Snowden breaks silence, will seek asylum in Russia
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has broken his silence at a last minute meeting in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport - finally announcing he plans to stay in Russia, for now.In an email, Snowden said that he...
View ArticleSnowden rumoured to be leaving Moscow airport
Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who leaked details about a worldwide US government backed spying programme, has been allowed to leave Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, it is rumoured. Snowden's lawyer...
View ArticleSnowden granted year's asylum in Russia
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has entered Russia, having been granted official papers by Moscow, it has been reported.Russia Today tweeted the pictured photograph of papers Snowden needed to leave...
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