While many European technology companies have pared back their presence at this week’s Mobile World Congress, Silicon Valley’s Mozilla is leaving a noticeably bigger footprint. The maker of the popular Firefox web browser sent about a hundred employees — which...
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Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla, with the Firefox logo during a news conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Mozilla’s Fox Tries to Steal Spotlight and Outrun Google’s Android
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Of the top 25 area codes where text-message spam originates from in the U.S., 15 are in California, Florida and New York.
Do You Live Near a Text-Message Spammer? Check Your Area Code
If you live in the 347, 201 or 510 area codes, or basically anywhere along the eastern edge of Florida, there’s a good chance you live near a mobile-phone spammer or a business that enables one. According to new research...
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Nomura Equity Research's “2012 Smartphone Guide” shows the components that go into phones and their providers’ market shares.
What’s Costliest Part of Smartphone? Hint: It’s Not the Display
Nomura Equity Research recently released its “2012 Smartphone Guide,” which offers a graphical look at the components that go into phones and their providers’ market shares. More than 25 parts are needed to make a modern smartphone. What were the...
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Lookout examined geographic data for some 9 million smartphones it helped locate last year.
Lose Your Smartphone? Check McDonald’s. Or the Dojo.
Where you lose your smartphone, it turns out, says a lot about where you live. If you lose a phone in San Francisco, you were probably at a coffee shop. Misplace it in London? Try the pub. In Brussels, call...
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