SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), the worlds top maker of memory chips, beat forecasts with a 37 percent rise in quarterly profit on stellar performances in flat screens and mobile phones, sending its shares 4 percent higher. Samsungs outlook remains solid thanks to its strength in TV screens and handsets, lifted by a softer Korean won and robust demand, while a long-suffering...
Rabu, 30 April 2008
Aside from its PPS2, USBfever has added two other products to its lineup for Apple portables. The first of these is an infrared remote (right), which operates at distances of up to 32.8 feet, and controls basic iPhone/iPod functions such as play/pause, skipping forward and backward, and adjusting volume. To work,...
DLO has updated its TransDock line of FM transmitters, which stream iPod audio through a car's stereo deck while keeping the player's battery charged. The focus of the lineup is on the standard TransDock, which cradles iPods while allowing repositioning through a flexible neck. Although the dock has been redesigned...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson AB on Friday said its first-quarter profit fell 55 percent, which was better than expected, and the company's shares soared more than 25 percent. Net profit in the first three months of 2008 was to 2.7 billion kronor ($460 million), compared with 5.8 billion kronor a year ago. Sales rose to 44 billion kronor ($7.4 billion), from 42 billion...
iStyles has begun shipping the latest version of its Crystal Case iPod protectors, now tailored for the third-generation iPod nano. The cases conform specifically to the dimensions of Apple's latest Nano, and are made of translucent polycarbonate, with colors tinted to the shade of each different Nano model....
Sabtu, 26 April 2008
The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs keynote at the companys Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday. The 3G iPhone will be the "first of an impressive wave of new products" from Apple, wrote Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee. They also expect an updated Mac laptop and iPod lines. The Apple conference is...
SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics said Friday its profit rose 37 percent in the first quarter as strength in mobile phones and liquid crystal displays offset weakness in semiconductors. But Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said its profit plummeted 95 percent in the January-March quarter due to costs of its exit from next-generation video HD DVD business. And Samung memory chip rival...
Fennec, the mobile version of the Firefox browser, will simplify and enhance Web browsing on cell phones and usher in an era of intense developer innovation, the chairman of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozillla Corp. said Thursday. Access to data, sites and applications on the Internet shouldnt be limited by the type of device being used, and Fennec will make that possible, said Mitchell Baker...
NEW YORK - NextWave Wireless Inc. is looking to sell its vast holdings of licenses for U.S. airwaves, which are worth billions of dollars and could allow a new market entrant to create a nearly nationwide wireless network. The San Diego-based company said late Wednesday that it had hired Deutsche Bank and UBS to assist in the sale of its spectrum holdings, which cover 85 percent of the U.S. population....
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Filmmaker Spike Lee has linked up with Nokia to direct a movie made with cell phone footage from everyday people in what he calls the democratization of film. The film by Nokia Productions will consist of three acts. An "assignment" for each act will be announced online and people will then have four weeks to produce their submission. "You are seeing first hand the democratization...
WASHINGTON - Monique Blake won't be shopping for new clothes. William Acosta got rid of his cell phone. Paula Rockwell put off buying a home. In ways both large and small, Americans are doing without. Squeezed by lofty prices for gasoline, food and other products, worried about their jobs and rattled by talk of a recession, people are hunkering down. Each person's decision to give up something and...
Generic dealer USBfever has released a second Portable Power Station intended for the iPhone. The device serves as a backup battery, temporarily recharging the internal one when connecting to wall socket is impractical; it attaches directly to an iPhone's dock connector, and starts the recharge process immediately....
If your fingers are too slow for you to easily search for local info on your mobile devices, Tellme is offering a solution. Your voice. On Wednesday, the Microsoft subsidiary announced it was adding local "on-the-go" information to its mobile voice portal, beginning with some BlackBerry models. Instead of typing or looking through menus, a user who has downloaded the software just holds the "talk"...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Incs (MOT.N) quarterly loss widened on weak cell phone sales, signaling further market share losses, especially in North America, to rivals such as LG Electronics Inc (066570.KS), and sending shares down as much as 5 percent. Motorola, which plans to spin off its mobile devices business next year after more than a year of losses, also missed Wall Street estimates on...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Shares in telecom equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) rocketed by more than a quarter on Friday, their biggest gain in five years, after the company unveiled surprisingly strong first-quarter profits. Earnings, still well adrift from a year ago, beat a set of gloomy forecasts set in train by repeated bad news which followed a dismal third quarter from the worlds largest mobile...
Pioneer has started the week today with introductions for three high-end AVIC navigators. The DVD-equipped F900BT and Premier F90BT, as well as the CD-only F700BT, all offer in-dash mapping on a 5.8-inch wide touchscreen and support comparatively advanced GPS features such as Traffic Message Channel and support,...
The nations major cable TV companies have decided to pull out of Sprints Pivot wireless offering. But they seem to have few wireless alternatives if they want to offer bundles of services to compete with phone companies, so they may have to step up their efforts with Sprint and Clearwire to develop a nationwide WiMax network. Comcast, Cox Communications, and Time Warner Cable reported Wednesday...
There may be another spectrum auction in the offing, albeit a private one not operated by the FCC. NextWave Wireless announced Thursday that it has asked two investment banking firms to explore the possibility of selling its extensive spectrum holdings that cover most of the United States. "We no longer view our spectrum holdings as critical to reaching our product sales objectives and believe...
CHICAGO - Struggling cell phone maker Motorola Inc. disappointed investors Thursday when it posted a wider first-quarter loss and failed to meet revenue forecasts. The report sent shares down more than 5 percent, before they rebounded slightly. The suburban Chicago company, which is in the midst of a massive reorganization that includes splitting itself into two publicly traded companies, said it...
SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics said Friday that net profit jumped 37 percent in the first quarter amid strong demand for mobile phones in emerging markets. Samsung earned 2.19 trillion won ($2.2 billion) in the three months ended March 31, compared with 1.6 trillion won in the same period last year, the company said in a statement to South Korea's financial regulator. Sales rose 19 percent...
Contour Design today unveiled the HardSkin for iPhone, a case based off of its iSee iPhone v3 model that adds a rubberized finish to the outside shell. The hard shell offers protection to the iPhone's features, while the silicone adds to impact resistance, and allows the iPhone to remain safely on a flat surface....
Jumat, 25 April 2008
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the worlds biggest mobile phones maker, said on Thursday it would co-brand a limited edition of Renault (RENA.PA) Sandero cars in Brazil, fully equipped with Nokias navigation system and car add-ons. Renault will sell the Sandero Nokia, including the Nokia N95 multimedia phone with an integrated GPS system, for prices from 17,650 euros (27,810). Only 1,000...
Vettro plans to introduce at Interop next week a mobile workforce application that makes the process of locating underground utility equipment, such as pipes and cables, more efficient. Interop Online Stay on top of breaking news and blog coverage from Internet in Las Vegas, April 27 to May 2, 2008 >> Interop Cover...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Handset makers sold 14 percent more phones in January-March than a year ago, growing at the fastest pace in five quarters, research firms said on Friday. In 2006, market growth was at over 20 percent level throughout the year. "Global handset volume continues to increase at a healthy pace. Recent annual growth rates have actually gone up, not down. Emerging markets continue...
SEOUL, South Korea - Samsung Electronics said Friday that net profit jumped 37 percent in the first quarter amid strong demand for mobile phones in emerging markets. Samsung earned 2.19 trillion won ($2.2 billion) in the three months ended March 31, compared with 1.6 trillion won in the same period last year, the company said in a statement to South Korea's financial regulator. Sales rose 19 percent...
Apple is working to greatly expand the reach of its iTunes trademark, a filing at the European Trademark Office reveals. While Apple already owns multiple trademarks related to its combination music and video software, the new application would see the number of applicable categories jump from four to 19, making it extremely difficult for other companies to poach the name. Apple has in the past encountered...
Programming from several TV networks has been added to iTunes Stores in Canada and the UK. ITV has signed a deal to bring a variety of "classic" TV shows to the UK iTunes Store, among them international hits such as The Prisoner and The Saint, along with more locally famous series such as Captain Scarlet and Brideshead Revisited. Downloads are priced at an average of �1.89 per episode, but not all...
For one week only, Apple's Japan stores are selling limited-edition cases for the iPod touch and nano, a Japanese site writes. Each case is made of hardened polycarbonate and coated in black rubber, featuring a special golden etching on the back, belonging to the shopping district it was bought from. People can...
In an unusual deal, Apple has announced a decision to buy PA Semi, a microprocessor design company. An Apple spokesman, Steve Dowling, has declined to elaborate on the reasons or terms of the deal, except to say that Apple "buys smaller technology companies from time to time," and it does not comment on "purposes and plans." It is atypical however for the company to buy hardware firms, particularly...
Having finally overcome some unexpected obstacles, an early Windows version of the Mac's PwnageTool hacking software has been released. Dubbed WinPwn, the software is in a v0.99.1 beta version, and does not currently support the creation of IPSW files based on iPhone 2.0 firmware. Users can, however, flash their...
Generic dealer USBfever has released a second Portable Power Station intended for the iPhone. The device serves as a backup battery, temporarily recharging the internal one when connecting to wall socket is impractical; it attaches directly to an iPhone's dock connector, and starts the recharge process immediately....
The US Patent and Trademark Office today published several of Apple's patent approvals, all of which relate to different aspects of the iPhone's functionality. The first deals with organization of the iPhone's interface as to reduce the clutter of adding too many visual elements to a document. The patent seems...
Rabu, 23 April 2008
With Motorolas prominent competitors such as Nokia, Samsung, and LG Electronics all turning up their noses at the idea of acquiring its ailing mobile handset operation, there appears to be growing interest among smaller Asian telecommunications companies about working with Motorola. A Web site run by the Financial Times reported this week that unnamed Asian suppliers have been talking with Motorola...
San Francisco - Texas Instruments, the worlds second-largest maker of chips for mobile phones, Monday lowered its guidance for the first quarter on slumping demand for chips in higher-end mobile phones, including 3G handsets. "Very recently, we received what I would call a pretty significant downward revision in wireless customer demand," said Ron Slaymaker, a vice president at TI, in a conference...
With Motorolas prominent competitors such as Nokia, Samsung, and LG Electronics all turning up their noses at the idea of acquiring its ailing mobile handset operation, there appears to be growing interest among smaller Asian telecommunications companies about working with Motorola. A Web site run by the Financial Times reported this week that unnamed Asian suppliers have been talking with Motorola...
Senin, 21 April 2008
Thousands of Cubans are enjoying their second day with a leading imperialist invention -- cell phones -- but they are finding that the lack of a free enterprise system translates into very high prices, so high even that a simple cell phone can cost six months salary. With the health of longtime dictator Fidel Castro slipping, Raul Castro, his brother, is loosening the reins in the Caribbean country...
Although it is illegal in some parts of the world, 12 percent of U.S. and U.K. respondents to an Accenture survey have logged on to someone elses unsecured Wi-Fi connection. Data that is sent via unsecured wireless routers is unencrypted and could theoretically be read by anyone who had the right network sniffing tools, but many people have tried logging on to unsecure Wi-Fi. Logging on to open...
LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile phone groups O2 and Carphone Warehouse (CPW.L) have cut the price for the most basic version of Apple Incs (AAPL.O) iPhone in Britain by 100 pounds (197) ahead of the expected launch of a new model. The two groups said the 8 gigabyte phone would be available for 169 pounds until June 1, while the 16GB phone will remain priced at 329 pounds. O2 said the offer would be...
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp, Chief Executive Dan Hesse promised on Tuesday to go ahead with plans to build a high-speed wireless network based on WiMax, but made no mention of any plans for a joint venture backed by cable companies in his keynote address at an industry convention. Recent reports speculated that Hesse could use the keynote to announce a venture with Clearwire Corp that...
The British government should tax the sale of media players, a body of the UK music industry is advocating. The Music Business Group is said to have rejected a recent government proposal, which would see people legally able to transfer music from CDs to media players for free; while the practice is widespread and taken for granted by the public and companies like Apple, in the UK it is technically...
San Francisco - Freescale Semiconductor has set a goal to turn a big mobile phone maker on to its handset chips this year, to further grab market share and offset the impact of Motorolas woes. The chipmaker currently sells most of its handset chips to two companies, Motorola and Research in Motion (RIM). But Motorolas falling market share is hurting Freescale, as is the handset makers decision to...
VeriSign has raised the registration fee for domain names ending in .com and .net for the second time since the company took control of the top-level domains in 2006. The security vendor said Thursday that the registry fee for .com would increase to $6.86 from $6.42, and the fee for .net would increase to $4.23 from $3.85. The increases are expected to take effect on Oct. 1, and are in line with...
Wireless Dynamics new memory card turns mobile handsets into an RFID reader, and can also be used to store RFID applications and data, the vendor said Wednesday. The SDiD 1212 plugs into the Secure Digital (SD) slot built into many mobiles, and is the industrys first card with embedded 512 MB SD memory, according to Wireless Dynamics. "By inserting the SDiD 1212 into the SD slot of a smartphone...
The use of touch screens on mobile phones is already soaring, and the introduction of a new line of small computing devices designed to connect people to the Internet is also fueling their use, a manufacturing executive said Thursday. The touch screen market will grow to a value of US$3.1 billion this year from $2.78 billion last year, said Kevin Chuang, an executive at Swenc Technology, at a conference...
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