October 10, 2008 - Industry News
Apple to unveil new laptop computers
Apple is expected to unveil new notebook computers, perhaps even one priced for those with tight budgets, at a "town hall" gathering at its ...
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October 9, 2008 - Industry News
RIM unveils touch-screen Blackberry
Research in Motion Ltd unveiled its first smartphone with a touch-screen on Wednesday, its answer to the popular Apple iPhone. The phone, the ...
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October 3, 2008 - Industry News
Skype admits China privacy breach
Skype on Thursday became the latest US firm embroiled in controversy over its operations in China, acknowledging that its Chinese partner had ...
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October 1, 2008 - Industry News
Top firms band together behind Mobile Broadband
Top computer makers, mobile operators and technology providers announced on Tuesday that upcoming laptop computers would feature mobile ...
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August 28, 2008 - Industry News
World mobile phone sales growth slowing
Growth in worldwide sales of mobile telephones will slow sharply in 2008 as consumers face increased economic difficulties, a report by Gartner ...
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August 22, 2008 - Industry News
Asian electronics sector holding up: analysts
Asia's electronics manufacturing sector is holding up, despite a slowing global economy, because of sustained demand from Brazil, Russia, ...
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July 31, 2008 - Industry News
Japans Matsushita profits surge almost 86%
Japan's Matsushita, the electronics giant behind the Panasonic brand, said Tuesday its net profit soared almost 86 percent in the fiscal ...
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July 10, 2008 - Industry News
Russia's VimpelCom enters Vietnam mobile phone market
Russia's Vimpel Communications will invest 267 million dollars in the Vietnamese mobile telephone joint venture GTEL-Mobile, the company ...
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June 30, 2008 - Industry News
Bill Gates signs off at Microsoft
Bill Gates spent his last day at Microsoft Friday, bidding a teary goodbye to the company he built into a global software colossus. ...
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June 20, 2008 - Industry News
Hurdles seen blocking potential of mobile phone TV
Television viewed on mobile phone handsets could be a huge revenue generator for the telecoms sector but significant hurdles stand in ...
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May 5, 2008 - Top Story News
Microsoft withdraws proposal to acquire Yahoo
Microsoft has yanked its proposal to acquire Yahoo, saying the struggling Internet pioneer refused to budge on price despite the software giant ...
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May 5, 2008 - Industry News
Deutsche Telekom eyes up Sprint takeover
German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom is examining a possible bid for loss-making US mobile provider Sprint Nextel, Germany's Der ...
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April 23, 2008 - Industry News
Sony Ericsson sees profits halved in first quarter
Sony Ericsson, the Swedish-Japanese mobile phone maker, said on Wednesday its profits plunged in the first quarter as its average sale ...
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February 18, 2008 - Technology News
Nano-fibers could power your iPod
US researchers have created a nano-fiber textile that harvests energy from movement, paving the way for clothing that could one day power ...
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February 15, 2008 - Technology News
Mobile industry embraces touch-screen; some bet on 'projector glasses'
Mobintech, a Denmark-based group, believes it has found the solution to the mobile phone industry's problem of trying to offer television and ...
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January 21, 2008 - Industry News
Anti-Nokia backlash grows in Germany
Anti-Nokia anger in Germany for closing a factory is growing with politicians publicly ditching the firm's phones and joining calls for ...
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January 17, 2008 - Industry News
Number of Internet users in China hits 210 million
China had 210 million Internet users by the end of 2007 and will soon have more web surfers than any other country on the planet, an ...
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December 17, 2007 - Industry News
Sony says global sales of PS3 to top 11 million
Worldwide sales of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 are expected to reach 11 million by the end of this fiscal year, a senior executive said in an ...
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November 14, 2007 - Industry News
Infineon, Intel to jointly develop SIM chips
German semi-conductor giant Infineon and Intel of the United States will jointly develop SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) chips, commonly used ...
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October 18, 2007 - Technology News
Look, Ma, no batteries: Powering nanoelectronics with light
Scientists have developed solar cells 200 hundred times thinner than a human hair that they believe will power the nanoscale gadgetry of ...
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October 10, 2007 - Industry News
Recalls seen leading to industry shake-up in China
Company boss Kuma Gu is busier than usual these days rushing his factory's last batch of radio-controlled toys onto the production ...
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September 24, 2007 - Industry News
Indian mobile phone subscribers pass 200 million mark
The number of Indian mobile phone subscribers has passed the 200 million mark after the country added another eight million customers last ...
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August 14, 2007 - Technology News
Putting power on paper: researchers create thin battery
US researchers said Monday they have invented a lightweight paper battery that could serve as an enhanced power storage device for the ...
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July 27, 2007 - Industry News
Hewlett-Packard in talks to buy Bull of France
The US computer giant Hewlett-Packard is in talks to buy the French group Bull for 720 million euros (988 million dollars), the magazine ...
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July 24, 2007 - Industry News
PC maker Acer hits out at Windows' Vista operating system
The head of Taiwan-based personal computer maker Acer, Gianfranco Lanci, hit out at Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, saying that ...
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