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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 [...]
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics has announced a 17% rise in profits in the last three months of 2011, as smartphone sales boosted earnings. Net profit for the quarter was 4 trillion won ($3.6bn; £2.3bn), up from 3.42tn won in the same period the previous year, Samsung said. However, for the whole of 2011 net income [...]
Nintendo Co. more than tripled its full-year loss forecast Thursday as the success of Apple Inc. devices erodes demand for the company’s 3DS handheld player. The net loss in the year ending in March may be $838 million, compared with an earlier forecast for a loss of $258 million, the company said. President Satoru Iwata, [...]
At restaurants, at movies and at the office, checking Facebook has become a regular habit for many of the Internet social network’s more than 800 million users. Now that habit has reached a new frontier: the automobile. Mercedes-Benz USA is bringing Facebook to its cars, with a special version of the service that is built-in [...]
An Indian start-up is catalysing a quiet revolution by designing, developing and installing unique solar-powered ATMs in rural areas. The initial lot of 400 solar ATMs, aptly called Gramateller (‘gram’ means village), the world’s largest order, placed by the State Bank of India (SBI), has been winning accolades for performance and substantial energy savings. The [...]
Apple’s iPhone 4S and Samsung’s fresh, broad offering are likely to stand out in this holiday season’s smartphone sales which will otherwise be clouded by global economic uncertainty. Apple, which lost its position as the world’s largest smartphone maker to Samsung last quarter, could regain top spot as consumers rush to buy the latest iPhone [...]
Apple has an effort to gain a temporary ban on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 and three other Android devices. Photo credit: Bonnie Cha/CNET News Californian district court judge Lucy Koh dismissed the application on Friday. Apple had tried to argue that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet and the Galaxy S 4G, Infuse 4G and Droid [...]