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Hong Kong Market: Smartphones account for over 50% of handset sales, says Motorola executive

Smartphones currently account for a 50% share of Hong Kong's mobile phone market, up from 25% in 2009, according to Ritchie Ma, general manager of mobile device business for Motorola Hong Kong.    

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Kin listed as at least $240 million writeoff in Microsoft earnings report

Here's a tidbit in today's Microsoft quarterly earnings that we previously overlooked: a240 million cost of revenue "primarily... resulting from the discontinuation of the Kin phone, offset in pa    

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HP CEO: Palm could end up a 'sub-brand' of the company

Given the way HP has treated acquisitions like VoodooPC and Compaq, this should come as no surprise -- but CEO Mark Hurd is at it again with comments about his company's recent Palm acquisition to German n    

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webOS 2.0 coming 'later this year,' says HP's Rubinstein

HP's Jon Rubinstein -- formerly of Palm CEO fame, of course -- just mentioned in an interview with Fortune that webOS 2.0 is on track for "later this year." Considering that 2010 is more than hal    

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Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 7 manufacturers: ASUS, Dell, HTC, LG, and Samsung all on board

Microsoft is no stranger to having partners galore in the phone business, but its lineup of manufacturers for the upcoming, surprisingly promising Windows Phone 7 launch is no less impressive. After plenty of r    

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Nokia's Q2: Sales Top 10 Billion Euros, But Profit Falls by 40%

TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters Nicely timed a few days before Nokia’s earnings release, the Wall Street Journal on Monday reported that the mobile giant is conducting a search for a new chief ex    

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Nokia quarterly profits drop 40 percent year-on-year as CEO says speculation must end 'one way or another'

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was already a man in a hot seat and these latest numbers will do little to lower the temperature. Nokia's net profit for Q2 2010 was €221 million, which most companies would b    

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Dell Streak available for purchase 'in late July,' says US product page

It's funny to think, even after reviewing the device (thrice, at this point), that we still don't have a US release date for Dell's Streak. The company's been uncharacteristically coy, but t    

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Motorola sues Huawei and several former employees for stealing wireless trade secrets

Man, if you thought the lawsuit action in the mobile space was crazy before, well, you ain't seen nothing yet -- Motorola just sued Huawei and over a dozen former employees for conspiring to steal its wire    

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Google: Eclair is on more than half of all Android phones, Froyo bursts onto the scene

Android 1.5 and 1.6 are still major players in the field, together accounting for some 41 percent of all Google-powered phones in use as of July 15 -- but for the first time, Android 2.1 is on significantly mor    

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