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Some analysts reckon that it sold more smartphones – 44.5m – in the first three months of the year than Apple’s 35.1m for its iPhone Samsung appears to have become the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, passing Finland’s Nokia, top since 1998, as Samsung Electronics reported record first-quarter results. Though the company did not reveal [...]
LG Electronics Inc. posted its first profit in three quarters, beating expectations thanks to a revival in its mobile business and demand for high-end TVs. The South Korean company Wednesday reported net profit of 243 billion won ($215 million) for the January-March period. It had a loss of 15.8 billion won a year earlier. Overall [...]
Apple-mania returned to Asia and Europe on Friday as the company’s latest version of its iPad went on sale, drawing diehard fans to shops selling the highly anticipated tablet computer. Gadget fans lined up in the U.K., France, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore so they could be among the first to get their hands on [...]
Nokia’s forthcoming Lumia 610 is set to tread new ground for the Windows Phone platform and enter the market as a pay as you go only offering. Three new phones are expected to debut from Nokia at Mobile World Congress 2012, and sources close to the matter have confirmed to TechRadar that the budget model [...]
We published our PS Vita review this week. The Vita has generated as much buzz over the years as any of the top smartphones, and it’s easy to see why. Its specs are top of the line, and offer a mobile gaming experience far beyond anything that’s been possible up to now. But it’s not [...]
Entrepreneurs, businesses, NGOs, and governments exalt mobile technology as a game-changing tool to fight global poverty. But what if our eagerness to connect the world is inadvertently exacerbating the global economic divide? In 2008, the New York Times reported that mobile phones may hold the key to ending global poverty altogether. The enthusiasm was—and is—understandable: [...]
Apple Inc., without much effort on its part, is making rapid headway in selling to corporations. After years of being the also-ran to Microsoft Corp. in the workplace, Apple has seen its iPad become a standard business tool. According to an IDG Connect survey, 51 percent of managers with iPads say they “always” use the [...]