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China April mobile phone users exceed 900 million

There were 900.39 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of April 2011, growing 1.14% on month and 14.48% on year, and 67.57 million (7.50%) of them were 3G users, according    

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ASUS gets Computex 2011 started early with a tablet teaser

Oh ASUS, what are you up to now? The company that brought us the wildly popular Eee Pad Transformer has another new tablet brewing in its design labs, which we're promised we'll get to witness for the    

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Apple said to introduce curved-glass iPhone 5

There has been a fair amount of buzz on the iPhone 5, and the latest being circulated around the supply chain in Taiwan is that Apple is going to adopt a curved cover glass for its next generation model, accord    

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PCB suppliers ramping up output to meet increasing demand from HTC

Taiwan-based PCB makers Unimicron Technology, Unitech Printed Circuit Board and Compeq Manufacturing all plan to ramp up their capacities for any layer HDI boards in 2011 to cope with increasing demand from HTC    

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Intel extends lead over Samsung in 1Q11, says IC Insights

IC Insights has issued its revealed ranking of the top semiconductor suppliers in the first quarter of 2011. Intel remained firmly in control of the number one spot in the ranking, extending its lead over secon    

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Apple Store celebrates 10th anniversary with 2.0 experience, iPads locked in Lucite (video)

We already wished the Apple Store a happy 10th anniversary, looking back to see what's changed (and what hasn't) in a decade of retail presence. Now Apple's tweaking things even more, launching t    

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Apple patent application reveals an LCD with switchable, privacy-protecting viewing angles

Don't you hate it when the guy next to you on the subway is looking over your shoulder, watching you screw up in Fruit Ninja? Well, Apple could have predicted your discomfort -- back in November 2009, befo    

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NC governor will let cable-backed bill restricting municipal broadband become law

We've repeatedly hammered Time Warner Cable (and its big-cable cronies) for crying to the North Carolina legislature about municipal broadband. TWC claims it can't compete with taxpayer-backed ISPs su    

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China-version iPhones to adopt China Mobile TD-LTE technology, says paper

China Mobile Communications has reached a consensus with Apple under which the next-generation of iPhones to be sold in China will adopt TD-LTE technology developed by China Mobile, the Chinese-language Commerc    

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