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Samsung terminates support for Symbian

It was almost a year ago that a senior Samsung VP was quoted expressing plans to drop Symbian. Samsung quickly backtracked on those comments with a vague commitment to its multi-OS strategy. Well, the other sho    

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Delta Electronics lands orders for e-book readers from China Mobile, says paper

Taiwan-based Delta Electronics has obtained orders for 8.2-inch color e-book readers equipped with 3G or Wi-Fi from China Mobile Telecommunications, the largest mobile telecom carrier in China, with shipments t    

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Nokia Siemens Networks to maintain WiMAX support, says regional head

Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will maintain its support for WiMAX technologies and applications although LTE has appeared to be the mainstream 4G standard, and its WiMAX technological capabilities will be enhanc    

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Amazon launching its own Android app store?

This sounds like madness to us, but take it for what you will: TechCrunch is reporting via some tipsters that Amazon is preparing to launch its own Android app store, of all things. Revenue split is rumored to    

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RIM introduces PlayBook -- the BlackBerry tablet

Today at Research In Motion's annual BlackBerry Developer Conference, CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company's new tablet -- the PlayBook. The tablet will utilize an OS created by the recently acqui    

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Live from the BlackBerry Developer Conference 2010 keynote!

We're seated in the blogger pit (which bears no resemblance to a casino pit, sadly) at the General Session of RIM's BlackBerry Developer Conference; it's scheduled to run a mind-boggling two and    

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Wintek looks for partner for AMOLED production, says paper

Wintek is eyeing the high-end smartphone panel market and plans to look for a strategic partner for AMOLED production, according to a Chinese-language report on the Economic Daily News (EDN).    

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Foxconn setting up handset plant in China airport business park

Foxconn has started construction of a handset-assembly plant in a 138-square kilometer business park surrounding the international airport in Zhengzhou City, northern China, with volume production to begin in f    

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Editorial: Nokia's not going to switch to Android or Windows Phone 7, so stop it already

I've had it. I can't take all this Nokia operating system speculation anymore. The final straw came with a VentureBeat piece citing a "trusted source" that claims "Nokia is now likely t    

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Young Fast starts resistive touch panel shipments to Nokia in 4Q10

Touch panel maker Young Fast Optoelectronics will start shipping resistive touch panels to Nokia in the fourth quarter of 2010, and start shipping capacitive touch panels in the first quarter of 2011, according    

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