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Mobile phone market grew 20% in Q1, says IDC

Booming sales of smartphones helped the worldwide mobile phone market to grow by 19.8 percent to 371.8 million... Read more

29 April, 2011
Tech Family Tree: The iPhone

Tech Family Tree: The iPhone

...The iPhone launched in 2007, and the mobile phone market was never the same again. Explore the technological heritage of... Read more

13 September, 2011 by Staff

Smartphones overtake PCs in shipments for first time

...from being a niche product segment at the high-end of the mobile phone market to becoming a truly mass-market proposition," Canalys's principal... Read more

6 February, 2012 by Rachel King

Panasonic focuses mobile business on Europe

...to expand its smartphone business, beginning with Europe, on Friday. "With the mobile-phone market rapidly shifting to smartphone usage worldwide and a steady growth... Read more

9 December, 2011 by Ben Woods

Boycott against corporate greed

...to keep Google's Android phones from continuing their dominance of the mobile phone market. But why? Microsoft claims that the Android phones violate multiple... Read more

25 October, 2011

Motorola dusts off Razr brand with ultra-slim phone

...industry and helped push Motorola to a top spot in the world mobile phone market. "Our mission was to create a true object of desire... Read more

19 October, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

Microsoft's two-edged sword in the software patent saga

...Microsoft is abusing the patent system in order to drastically change the mobile phone market, all in its favour of course. I am hoping that... Read more

30 September, 2011

Google: What it's getting with Motorola

...tier-one handset business. Motorola has had a dynamic relationship with the mobile phone market — it started it, it ruled the roost in analogue, lost... Read more

15 August, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

China Telecom to offer the iPhone, report says

...investors on Wednesday, Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White estimated the high-end mobile-phone market in China reaches anywhere from 100 million to 125 million... Read more

14 July, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Windows Phone 7 to overtake iPhone, says IDC

...smartphone market will grow more than four times faster than the overall mobile phone market." If the market grows at 20% a year, smartphone sales... Read more

29 March, 2011

1.6 billion phones sold as Android grows 888.8%

...9 million units last year. According to Gartner, Nokia again dominated the mobile phone market in unit volumes, shifting 461.3 million phones compared to... Read more

9 February, 2011

Nokia to 'fight back' after year of turmoil

...and Google's economic might, brand power and sudden relevance in the mobile phone market that Nokia once dominated. Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's outgoing head... Read more

15 September, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

WP7 on Android's tail by 2015, says IDC

...set to be more than four times the rate of the overall mobile phone market, according to IDC. The analyst predicts the worldwide smartphone market... Read more

30 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Nokia, Microsoft become Windows Phone 7 partners

...joins two powerful but lagging companies into mutually reliant allies in the mobile phone market. As expected, Nokia plans to use Microsoft's Windows Phone... Read more

11 February, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Global mobile market hits high note

The international mobile phone market achieved its highest first quarter result ever, Gartner said today... Read more

9 June, 2004 by ZDNet UK

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SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

3 hours ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

3 hours ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

6 hours ago by archerthom on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

7 hours ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

1 day ago by Jack Strain via Facebook on Indoor navigation coming to a mobile near you soon
Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

2 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

2 days ago by UnderINK on European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month
Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

3 days ago by Jason Burchell via Facebook on Music industry negotiating over 24-bit downloads
Philip Charles Cohen

Read about it and weep, John Donahoe ... In addition to Visa’s V.me, there is now MasterCard’s PayPass digital wallet soon to arrive; another...

3 days ago by Philip Charles Cohen via Facebook on PayPal takes phone-based payments to the high street
apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

3 days ago by apexwm on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
songmaster

SHleG: Do you remember building a clockwork scorpion kit (I'm pretty sure I have a photo of it somewhere) — I think it was called something like...

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Chris Wortman

Good I love Yahoo! Their search engine is getting better than Google as of late. I find more of what I want on the first page, and usually within...

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PatrickG

openhgs has made the point for Windows 8 multiple monitors without realising it! With Windows 7 you have to switch the mouse and so your focus...

3 days ago by PatrickG on Windows 8 could speed multi-monitor uptake