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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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Gartner: 428 million mobile communication devices sold in 1Q11

Worldwide mobile communication device sales to end users totaled 427.8 million units in the first quarter of 2011, an increase of 19% from the first quarter of 2010, according to Gartner. Smartphones continued    

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Gearing up for smartphones: Q&A with Arima president Owen Chen

Via the ODM business model, Arima Communications has established a firm foothold in the worldwide market for feature phones, said company presient Owen Chen in a recent interview with Digitimes. Chen revealed t    

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Gartner cuts full-year handset sales forecast on inventory issues

Research firm Gartner said it expects global handset sales to be slightly less than it had previously forecast because of a buildup of unsold inventory. However, the firm also said that the industry wi    

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NFC-enabled handset shipments to boom, says IHS iSuppli

The decision by three major US wireless carriers to partner with leading credit card companies on a mobile commerce initiative will boost the market for embedded payment technology in cell phones, helping globa    

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Contract makers face stagnant growth in handsets, IHS iSuppli says

The impact of the recession combined with rising sales of smartphones will deal a setback to contract manufacturers in the global handset market, limiting the companies to less than a 30% share of the wireless    

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Shortage of smartphone and tablet PC components emerging

Despite both upstream and downstream PC and smartphone players claiming to have not seen any component shortages and that they will see normal supplies until the end of May 2011, sources from upstream component    

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