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Monday 31 October 2011
Samsung beats Apple in 3Q11 smartphone sales, says IHS
Samsung Electronics in the third quarter managed to take the No. 1 position in the global smartphone market for the first time ever, setting the stage for a close battle with Apple...
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Tablet PC architectures dominated by ARM and iOS, says DisplaySearch
Shipments of tablet PCs with ARM processors are expected to grow 211% on year in 2011 to 59.9 million units, while tablet PCs with x86 processors (typically used in notebooks and...
Friday 21 October 2011
MediaTek hiring in China and Taiwan, says paper
Fabless IC firm MediaTek plans to recruit about 300 software engineers able to create applications for Android-powered smartphones, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily...
Friday 21 October 2011
AMD and BlueStacks join forces to bring Android apps to x86-based tablets and PCs
AMD has announced an investment in BlueStacks, a venture-backed firm developing software. BlueStacks has introduced a solution to enable Android applications to run fast and full-screen...
Thursday 20 October 2011
Players cut 7-inch tablet PC prices to compete for market share
Tablet PC players have recently started to drop their tablet PC prices to attract consumers, especially 7-inch models as the machines can easily attract first-time buyers with their...
Thursday 20 October 2011
PC vendors concerned Google may reduce resources for tablet PCs
Google launched its latest Android 4.0 operating system (Ice Cream Sandwich) on October 19, but since the focus of the launch conference was mainly concentrated on Samsung Electronics'...
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Philips launches LED Lamp Finder App
Philips has launched the new Philips LED Lamp Finder App, a smartphone application designed to give consumers guidance on how to find the perfect lamp to light up spaces in homes...
Thursday 6 October 2011
Taiwan market: Motorola launches 3 new smartphones
Motorola Mobility has launched three new smartphones in the Taiwan market, with the Milestone 3 targeting the high-end business segment, the social network phone Defy+ for the mid-range...
Thursday 6 October 2011
Android, Window Phone smartphone vendors to expand market share on disappointing iPhone 4S, say sources
The newly released iPhone 4S lags behind some mainstream smartphones as far as specifications are concerned, giving rival companies in either the Android or Windows Phone camps, including...
Tuesday 4 October 2011
White-box tablet PC players cut prices to digest inventory
White-box tablet PC players have cut their pricing for 7-inch models hoping to clear up their inventory before Amazon's new 7-inch Kindle Fire is released in November priced at US$...
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Asustek will not compete with price in the tablet PC market, says CEO
Commenting on market watchers' expectation that Asustek Computer will soon drop its tablet PC price and delay the launch of the next generation Eee Pad Transformer, Asustek CEO Jerry...
Monday 3 October 2011
Share of smartphone platforms set to change in 4Q11
Global market share of the major smartphone platforms may undergo some changes in the fourth quarter of 2011 due the launch of next generation smartphones from Apple, Nokia and Android-handset...
Friday 30 September 2011
HTC to launch entry-level HTC Explorer smartphone in India
HTC plans to launch its entry-level Android phone, the HTC Explorer, in the India market in cooperation with Vodafone soon. HTC will also push the sale of the HTC Explorer to other...
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Digitimes Research: Android tablet sales growing steadily
Digitimes Research has analyzed figures from Google about the company's certified devices that have connected to Android Market each month, and pointed out that monthly sales of Google...
Thursday 22 September 2011
Notebook players pessimistic about ability of Ice Cream Sandwich to defeat iOS
Notebook players, seeing that first-tier brand vendors such as RIM, Motorola and Hewlett-Packard (HP) are all backing away from the tablet PC bandwagon, are turning pessimistic about...