Blog » June 2011

RIM shares hit a five-year low: oh, how the mighty have fallen

There was a time when RIM owned the smartphone space with its revolutionary push email-equipped BlackBerrys. And there are still plenty of folks who can't live without a good physical keyboard and BBM. But    

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Arima smartphone shipments to boom in 2012

Handset ODM Arima Communications is striving to sign contracts for smartphones with new clients, and extend the collaboration with its existing customers from feature phones to smartphones, according to industr    

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Handset vendors and ODMs switching focus back to 4- to 5-inch high-end smartphones

Branded handset vendors as well as ODM/OEM handset makers, who have ventured into the tablet PC segment, have recently switched their focus back to the development of 4- to 5-inch high-end smartphones in the wa    

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Qualcomm likely to slash 30% off entry-level 3G solutions in next 9-12 months, says paper

Qualcomm is likely to slash its prices for 3G smartphone solutions by 30% in the next 9-12 months in order to prevent other chipset makers from grabbing its share in the entry-level 3G solution segment, the Chi    

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HTC set to challenge Apple as top smartphone vendor in the US

HTC's Android-based smartphones the HTC Thunderbolt and Inspire 4G ranked as the top-selling models for Verizon Wireless and AT&T, respectively, and it has a chance to challenge Apple as the number one    

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Digital games distribution earned $3.8 billion in 2010, a quarter of entire video game market

Alright, so technically all video games are digital, but what we're talking about here is the stuff that you don't buy on physical media -- downloadable games, add-on content, mobile apps, subscriptio    

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Microsoft, Facebook, RIM, and others write to the FCC in support of AT&T-Mobile merger

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has mail. It's only a page and a paragraph long, but the letter he's received this week has much gravitas attached to it, coming as it does from a select group of the t    

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Apple becomes largest OEM semiconductor buyer in 2010, says IHS iSuppli

Spurred by booming demand for the iPhone and iPad, Apple in 2010 became the largest buyer of semiconductors among OEMs for the first time ever, according to IHS iSuppli.    

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Panasonic's 1.4 GHz dual-core Smart TV chip is industry's fastest, should load Netflix quicker

The next step for Panasonic's UniPhier family of processors for HDTVs and Blu-ray players has been unveiled, taking form as a 1.4GHz ARM Cortex-A9 based design that it claims is the industry's fastest    

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AT&T's Ralph de la Vega: Windows Phones 'not selling as well' as hoped

We don't envy AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega's job one bit, nor the amount of time he spends on the hotseat. We do, however, admire his willingness to open his mouth and reveal interesting    

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