Large-screen smartphones — often called phablets — have been getting a lot of attention lately. But so far, the devices make up only a tiny portion of the global mobile market, according to a new study. Flurry, a mobile analytics company,...
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Are Phablets a Fad? Flurry Report Looks at Screen Size
BlackBerry’s Lazaridis Says Board Wanted Him to Stay CEO
Mike Lazaridis, the inventor of the BlackBerry, announced plans today to leave the company’s board, severing the final ties to a business he founded nearly 30 years ago. Lazaridis had served as co-CEO until January 2012, when he and Jim...
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Eclipsing the Sun: Murdoch’s British Tabloid to Erect Paywall
Britain’s best-selling daily, The Sun, is putting up a paywall later this year. That means fans of the tabloid — known for topless “Page 3″ girls and headlines like “Harry The Nazi” (when Prince Harry wore a Nazi outfit to...
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The new HTC One will be the first to feature the HTC UltraPixel Camera.
HTC’s UltraPixel Cameras Are Becoming an Ultra Headache
It was supposed to be the feature that makes HTC outshine Samsung Electronics and Apple. Instead, the complications of producing a camera with what the company calls UltraPixels has forced HTC to delay the roll-out of its HTC One smartphone....
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Coming to a Screen Near You: Virtual Product Placement
Careful viewers of Indian soap opera “Pavitra Rishta” might think that husband and wife Manav and Archana are fans of Tilda, a brand of packaged rice. There it is, after all, on the shelf. Anyone watching the show being filmed,...
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"Terry" Gou Tai-Ming, chairman and president of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd., speaks in his office building at the Foxconn City complex in Shenzhen, China, in 2010.
Foxconn Doesn’t Want to Be Confused With Foxconn, So It’s Changing Its Name
For years, the world has had trouble wrapping its head around that behemoth known to us all as Foxconn. Not helping matters has been the fact that Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group is actually a name given to a collection of...
Read more »Apple Just Hired One of its Outspoken Critics
It’s an old adage that Kevin Lynch can surely appreciate now: If you can’t beat them, join them. Lynch, who is leaving Adobe to work at Apple, spent the past eight years at the software company, including the last five...
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Samsung Braces for Next Battleground With Google
Samsung made itself the brand to beat in the crowded smartphone space by backing Google’s Android software –- 96 percent of the South Korean company’s shipments ran on the platform. Now, it’s planning a high-end smartphone powered by Intel-backed open-source...
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Samsung introduced the Galaxy S4 at a Broadway-style event in New York.
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Launch Was From Another Planet
Gadget makers tend to go over-the-top with their product launches, but Samsung Electronics was in another galaxy tonight. The Korean tech company brought in Broadway performers for a mammoth production at New York’s iconic Radio City Music Hall, which seats...
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Forget the Batphone. Here Comes the Merkelphone
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is getting a new phone. In fact, she’s buying almost 10,000 of them, for something in the neighborhood of $31 million. This summer, the German government will get the first of about 9,600 hack-proof handsets. The...
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