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Interview With Duncan Stewart, Deloitte Canada Research: Smartphones, Netbooks and Cleantech

Arjun Rudra submits: Changing gears, albeit slightly, today’s interview discusses macro trends in the Cleantech, Life Sciences and Technology spheres. Our guest and interviewee is well known analyst a    

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Social-networking services to replace e-mail as primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20% of business users by 2014, says Gartner

Greater availability of social-networking services, coupled with changing demographics and work styles, will lead 20% of employees to use social networks as their business communications hub by 2014, according    

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Motorola: Earnings Scorecard

Zacks.com submits: Motorola Inc. (MOT) reported excellent third quarter 2010 results, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2 cents. Earnings benefited from growing market traction for its 3G Android-based sm    

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Handset testing becomes increasingly more complicated, says CGC executive

With smartphones becoming functionally more powerful and supporting a growing list of communications standards, testing certification is increasingly more complicated, said Chen Hengzhong, president of testing    

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US Cellular: LTE trial in late 2011, full deployment in 2012

Though fellow regional carrier MetroPCS has been arguably the most aggressive carrier in all of North America in getting LTE live, it looks like US Cellular is taking a slightly more laid-back approach. At a co    

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Gartner's global phone sales rankings match IDC's, but say the big guys have less of the pie; Android moves to number two overall

At a 30,000-foot level, the global mobile phone sales numbers for the third quarter of 2010 just released by Gartner match up with what IDC posted a few days ago, but you might say the devil's in the detai    

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HTC reports NT$32 billion consolidated revenues for October 2010

Smartphone vendor HTC has reported consolidated revenues of NT$32.434 billion (US$1.077 billion) for October 2010, up 157.14% on year. Consolidated revenues from January to October totaled NT$207.190 billion, r    

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eMemory cuts into supply chain of brand-name handset vendors

Taiwan's eMemory Technology has broadened its embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) IP portfolio for market segments like touch screen controllers and power management chips, and has entered the supply chain    

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Next gen smartphones driving demand for larger, higher-resolution displays

Despite the high saturation and worldwide penetration of mobile phones, manufacturers are initializing the next growth cycle in order to increase ASPs and maintain revenues, and demand for larger screen sizes a    

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Worldwide smartphone market grows 89.5% on year in 3Q10, says IDC

The worldwide smartphone market reached a new milestone during the third quarter of 2010, with the leading vendors posting double- or even triple-digit on-year growth, according to the International Data Corpor    

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