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The iPhone hurts Nokia and grows to 18 percent of the European market of smartphones

Published on: 27th June, 2010

Recent data from comScore show Apple ranked second in the European market of smartphones in a period shorter than three years. The company has grown to 18 percent of the core European countries, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Spain, starting from scratch. It has maintained Microsoft at 13 percent, Research in Motion at [...]

Motorola to put up to $4 billion in new cellphone company

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Motorola will split off in 2011 and will bring $3 up to $4 billion into the cellphone business. A report of Wall Street Journal reveals that this will happen after buying back most of the company’s debt. The new firm is supposed not to have any obligations like pension liabilities in order to have the [...]

Fujitsu and Toshiba to unite phone businesses

Published on: 21st June, 2010

Fujitsu and Toshiba have concluded a provisory deal to merge their phone businesses. According to the memorandum of understanding, Toshiba will hand off this business to a new, not yet named company, while Fujitsu is expected to buy the majority of shares of the new entity which would begin on October 1st. The formalization of [...]

Motorola and RIM have come to an agreement

Published on: 14th June, 2010

Motorola and Research in Motion have finally come to an agreement, after a short, but rough patent dispute. The agreement involves cross-licensing and transferring patents related to cellular data, e-mail and Wi-Fi. RIM seems to have also made a concession, as the company will also pay an immediate settlement fee and also royalties to Motorola. [...]

Companies from Korea overtake Motorola on the United States market

Published on: 11th June, 2010

Samsung and LG have ended Motorola’s reign as a top-selling brand on the US phone market. Motorola’s loss is slight, but big enough to place it third with 21.6 percent. Meanwhile, Samsung grew enough to reach the first place with 22.1 percent. LG is ranked second at 21.8 percent. The influence of Research in Motion [...]

IBM and Lenovo lead in reliability report, Apple is third

Published on: 6th June, 2010

The latest computer reliability report of Rescuecom shows improvements in the scores of the top five companies. IBM and Lenovo have seen the strongest growth and share the first place for the first quarter of this year. Although Apple has maintained the highest overall score in 2009, it is only ranked third. Asus comes second [...]

Microsoft still insists to have Bing as search engine on iPhone

Published on: 31st May, 2010

Microsoft insists to impose the Bing search option for the iPhone, according to unnamed sources. Sources from Microsoft said the company has no intention to replace Google as a default search option, but only wants Bing to become more visible as a choice on Apple devices. It is also possible for Bing maps to be [...]

Nokia and Yahoo allied to fight Apple and Google

Published on: 29th May, 2010

An expected alliance was formed including Nokia and Yahoo to allow them completing each other’s services. Thus, as a part of this deal, Nokia will provide all mapping and navigating services needed by Yahoo through Ovi Maps, while Yahoo will power both Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat. The two companies are also planning to unify [...]

On-demand movies available 30 days after theaters

Published on: 29th May, 2010

There is a possibility in the near future that movies reach video on demand much faster. A proposal of Time Warner made at the Cable Show refers to movies reaching video on demand within thirty days in exchange of a premium price of $20 to $30. It seems that Disney, Paramount, Fox, Universal, Sony and [...]

Google incriminates short Android battery life with respect to background applications

Published on: 22nd May, 2010

Larry Page, Google co-founder, when speaking at the company’s I/O developer conference, said that there is an abnormal situation when an Android handset cannot function a full day without having to recharge the battery. He was responding to a question relative to the company’s plans to solve battery life problems on the mobile platform. Page [...]

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