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China-based white-box vendors to offer below US$100 Android smartphones for emerging markets

China-based vendors are poised to offer Android smartphones priced at below US$100 for sale in China and other emerging markets including India, Indonesia and Brazil in 2011, according to Taiwan-based handset a    

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Acer aims to ship 40-45 million notebooks, 5 million smartphones in 2011

Acer expects to ship 40-45 million notebooks and five million smartphones in 2011, the company said at a February 8 press conference.    

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Dell promises a 10-inch Windows 7 tablet later this year

We've got very little information here, but Dell's just announced that it's planning to bring a 10-inch Windows 7 tablet to market later this year. According to the press release, it will be aime    

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Lenovo reportedly sees 3.3 million downloads from its online application store

China-based PC vendor Lenovo's online mobile applications store has attained 3.3 million downloads since the opening of the store in September 2010, averaging 25,000 downloads a day, according to China-bas    

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IDC: Smartphone shipments topped 100M in Q4

Mobile phone vendors shipped a record number of devices in the fourth quarter of 2010. In IDC's quarterly global mobile phone report, the research firm said that handset OEMs shipped 100.9 million smartpho    

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Report: Nokia CEO likely to shake up executive team

Nokia (NYSE:NOK) CEO Stephen Elop may make major changes to the company's executive management team as part of a broader change in company strategy, according to multiple news reports. The reports in the W    

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Is the LiMo Foundation Android's first victim?

Remember the LiMo Foundation? Founded in 2007, the LiMo Foundation's goal was to establish "a globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices." By the end of 2009, the grou    

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S&P may cut Nokia credit rating on smartphone concerns

Standard & Poor's Ratings Service may lower Nokia's (NYSE:NOK) credit rating, which would be the first cut ever for the company and is the latest bit of dispiriting news to befall the world�    

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Exclusive: A day trip to Meizu's factory

Jack Wong is a very lucky guy. Or you can say he's very unfortunate. On one hand, his eight-year-old Meizu label -- literally meaning "the captivating tribe" -- has rapidly become one of the most    

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Samsung experiencing a 16 percent return rate on the Galaxy Tab?

Just a few days back, Samsung announced it had moved around 2 million Galaxy Tabs in the latter part of 2010. According to new data released by ITG Investment Research using tracked point-of-sale info, however,    

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