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Report: LTE to juice mobile handset and gear market 17% in 2012

The booming LTE market will translate into 17 percent revenue growth for the overall global mobile communications equipment market in 2012, according to a new report from IHS iSuppli. The report is one of a rec    

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Phones 4u 'JUMP' plan lets you swap phones every six months, for a price

Britons! Dedicated followers of fashion! If your clothes are loud (but never square) and you've just gotta keep up with the latest trends, then Phones 4u should be your next stop. The independent phone ret    

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Intel, Nvidia to showcase latest technologies at MWC 2012

Intel and Nvidia, which have crossed from the PC industry to challenge smartphone CPU giant Qualcomm, are expected to become spotlights at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012, which will be hosted on February 27 i    

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Microsoft celebrating leap year right by launching Windows 8 Consumer Preview at MWC

Perhaps celebrating a push toward the mobile space with its traditionally desktop-bound OS -- or maybe just doing its best to further confuse the similar naming conventions with its forthcoming smartphone opera    

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HTC had an overall good 2011, but an unimpressive Q4

HTC's financial results for the last quarter of 2011 are out and they are not so good. Furthermore, the company expects Q1 2012 to follow the same path.Despite profitable Q2 2011 and Q3 2011 results th    

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Smartphones overtake client PCs in 2011, says Canalys

Canalys has released its full, fourth-quarter 2011 country-level smartphone shipment estimates to clients, so completing the picture for the year. One notable result was that total annual global shipments of sm    

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Corning and Samsung Mobile Display form new OLED glass venture

Corning and Samsung Mobile Display have signed an agreement to establish a new equity venture for the manufacture of specialty glass substrates for the rapidly expanding organic light emitting diode (OLED) devi    

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Windows Phone exec Brandon Watson leaves Microsoft, headed to Amazon

There's some more corporate reshuffling going on in the Windows Phone universe this week, now that Brandon Watson has confirmed his departure from Microsoft. Watson, who served as head of the WP Developer    

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Apple pulls iPhone 4, 3GS and iPad 2 from German online store

Apple has been forced to remove some of its 3G products from the German online stores. This includes the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4 and the 3G version of the iPad 2. FOSS Patent's Florian Mueller says th     1 comment(s)

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Smartphone and PC vendors to treat WP8 differently, say sources

Although information indicates that Microsoft's next-generation handset platform, Windows Phone 8 (WP8), will support an array of technologies and functionalities, including dual-core CPUs, NFC, mobile wal    

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