Blog » September 2010

Amazon launching its own Android app store?

This sounds like madness to us, but take it for what you will: TechCrunch is reporting via some tipsters that Amazon is preparing to launch its own Android app store, of all things. Revenue split is rumored to    

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RIM introduces PlayBook -- the BlackBerry tablet

Today at Research In Motion's annual BlackBerry Developer Conference, CEO Mike Lazaridis announced the company's new tablet -- the PlayBook. The tablet will utilize an OS created by the recently acqui    

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Live from the BlackBerry Developer Conference 2010 keynote!

We're seated in the blogger pit (which bears no resemblance to a casino pit, sadly) at the General Session of RIM's BlackBerry Developer Conference; it's scheduled to run a mind-boggling two and    

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Wintek looks for partner for AMOLED production, says paper

Wintek is eyeing the high-end smartphone panel market and plans to look for a strategic partner for AMOLED production, according to a Chinese-language report on the Economic Daily News (EDN).    

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Foxconn setting up handset plant in China airport business park

Foxconn has started construction of a handset-assembly plant in a 138-square kilometer business park surrounding the international airport in Zhengzhou City, northern China, with volume production to begin in f    

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Editorial: Nokia's not going to switch to Android or Windows Phone 7, so stop it already

I've had it. I can't take all this Nokia operating system speculation anymore. The final straw came with a VentureBeat piece citing a "trusted source" that claims "Nokia is now likely t    

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Young Fast starts resistive touch panel shipments to Nokia in 4Q10

Touch panel maker Young Fast Optoelectronics will start shipping resistive touch panels to Nokia in the fourth quarter of 2010, and start shipping capacitive touch panels in the first quarter of 2011, according    

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Polytronics cuts into supply chain for smartphones with PPTC resistors

Protective component maker Polytronics Technology has revealed that its SMD polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) resistors have been adopted by smartphone vendors, for use in handset-use lithium ba    

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Pegatron to begin volume production of CDMA iPhone 4 in November

Pegatron Technology is expected to begin volume production of a CDMA-version iPhone 4 in November with total shipments likely to reach 3-4 million units in the first three months, and 10 million by mid-2011, ac    

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Verizon CEO talks (more) about iPhone: 'we have to earn it'

So, Apple's talked about putting the iPhone on Verizon, Verizon wants the phone... why can't we get these two crazy kids together? Well, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg touched on that topic in a talk to    

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