Blog » March 2012

Verizon's CEO has a plan for wireless pay-TV, if the government will allow it

Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam doesn't quite have all of those SpectrumCo AWS licenses in his pocket just yet, but if he does get them he has a decidedly old school idea of what to flood the airwaves with: T    

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RIM announces Q4 2012 earnings, Jim Balsillie resigns from board, company plans to refocus on enterprise

We've already seen a bit of big news slip out ahead of RIM's earnings announcement, and the company's now dropped another bombshell itself. Former co-CEO Jim Balsillie has resigned from his posit    

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Apple and Foxconn agree to drastically improve working conditions following Fair Labor Association report

The Fair Labor Association has released its findings from the lengthy investigation of working conditions at Foxconn's Chinese plants where Apple products are made. While the PR and report largely avoid ov    

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Nielsen: Half of all American subscribers now own a smartphone

Roughly half of all American mobile subscribers now own a smartphone, according to new data from Nielsen, marking a watershed moment in adoption. According to Nielsen, 49.7 percent of Americans owned a smartpho    

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Nokia Morph patent application raises hope well beyond expectation

Remember Nokia Morph? It's the Finnish manufacturer's long-standing project to build a transparent, flexible phone that you can contort to your hearts content. Now the company's submitting a seco    

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Nielsen: Smartphones account for nearly 50 percent of US mobile phones as of February

Nielsen Mobile Insights' latest statistics are in -- and would you look at that. It's the rise of smartphone owners crossing paths with the decline of those still clinging to their feature-focused dev    

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Best Buy to close 50 big box US retail stores, open 100 Mobile stand-alone outlets in 2013

Still driving to your local Best Buy to fondle all the latest gadgets before swiping your card, or hopping to the web to pull the trigger? That tradition could be short-lived, if you happen to live near one of    

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IDC: nearly 1 billion 'smart connected devices' shipped last year

Know that gadget you're currently using to read this article? It may be one of 916 million "smart connected devices" that shipped in 2011, with global revenue totaling some489 billion last year.    

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Tim Cook meets Chinese Vice Premier in Beijing, talks IP law, worker rights

Tim Cook's visit to China this week marks his first as Apple's CEO, but what originally appeared to be a casual jaunt to Beijing with possible carrier meetings on the agenda, has turned out to be a ca    

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30 million NFC-equipped phones shipped in 2011, could reach 700 million by 2016

Those working on life-changing uses for NFC in phones will now find it even harder to explain why life still hasn't changed. According to Berg Insight, annual global sales of NFC-equipped handsets increase    

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