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Mobiles offer financial lifeline to Asian migrants—study

Asia's mobile revolution is set to transform the region's financial services industry, offering a cheap way for millions of migrant workers to send money home to their families, a report said on Monday, May 20, 2013.  JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES/AFP

Asia’s mobile revolution is set to transform the region’s financial services industry, offering a cheap way for millions of migrant workers to send money home to their families, a report said on Monday.

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

LG Electronics’ profit plunges on slow TV sales

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LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday its first quarter earnings shrank to one tenth of the year-earlier quarter as its TV business languished, masking a recovery in mobile phone sales.

Posted: April 24th, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

BlackBerry CEO says iPhone is outdated

In this Jan. 30, 2013 file photo, the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone is displayed in New York. Apple's iPhone is outdated, according to Research In Motion Ltd. chief executive Thorsten Heins. Heins made the comment Thursday, March 21, 2013, on the eve of the much-delayed launch of the new touchscreen BlackBerry in the United States. AT&T begins selling the Z10 on Friday, more than six weeks after RIM launched the devices elsewhere. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Apple’s iPhone is outdated, according to the chief executive of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd.

Posted: March 22nd, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Smartphones: Filipinos’ default mobile device

Motorola's three new Droid Razr smartphones—(from left) the Droid Razr M, the Droid Razr HD and the Droid Razr Maxx HD—are unveiled at a press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. The phones are the first from Motorola as a part of Google.  AP PHOTO/BEBETO MATTHEWS

Here’s a true story: A man stuck in traffic realized he forgot his wallet at home. He shrugged off the idea of going back for it. Then he realized he had also left his cell phone. That was reason enough for him to make a bold attempt to turn around and retrieve the phone he had left behind.

Posted: March 11th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Nokia launches cheaper Windows-based phones

A man holds the new Nokia Lumia 720 at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013.  AP PHOTO/MANU FERNANDEZ

Nokia, once the leader of the mobile phone world, unveiled Monday two new Windows Phone-based Lumia smartphones aimed at the cheaper end of the market.

Posted: February 26th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

9 things Apple could do with $137B

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Apple Inc. came under attack Thursday from an influential investor for its practice of stockpiling cash. Its hoard totalled $137 billion at the end of last year, and it keeps growing.

Posted: February 8th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

BlackBerry to withdraw from Japan—reports

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Troubled smartphone maker BlackBerry will not launch its new models in Japan, reports said Friday, effectively heralding a pull-out from a booming smartphone market where it is being beaten by Apple.

Posted: February 8th, 2013 in Gadgets,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Photos & Videos | Read More »

Samsung profits beat forecast, mobile biz doubles

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Samsung Electronics Co. reported Friday forecast-beating results for the fourth quarter of 2012 as profit from its mobile business more than doubled from a year earlier.

Posted: January 25th, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

China fines LG, Samsung in flat panel price case

In this Oct. 20, 2012 photo, Chinese people line up to enter a newly-opened Apple Store in Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing. A Chinese court has ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan ($165,000) to eight Chinese writers and two companies who say unlicensed copies of their work were distributed through Apple's online store. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ruled Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 that Apple violated the writers' copyrights by allowing applications containing their work to be distributed through its App Store, according to an official who answered the phone at the court and said he was the judge in the case. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China has fined South Korea’s LG and Samsung and four Taiwanese companies a total of 144 million yuan ($22.8 million) for fixing prices of flat panel screens, the government announced Friday.

Posted: January 4th, 2013 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

iPhone 5, Galaxy S3 added to US patent battle

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A California judge on Thursday granted motions to add Apple’s iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S3 with the Jelly Bean operating system to a patent infringement suit between the mobile giants.

Posted: November 16th, 2012 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Samsung’s Galaxy Note II hits 3 million sales

A man walks by a billboard of Samsung Electronics's Galaxy Note II at a showroom of its headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. Samsung Electronics Co. tipped all-time high quarterly operating profit, likely driven by strong sales of high-end smartphones that offset weak semiconductor orders. AP

SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung Electronics Co. says it has sold more than 3 million Galaxy Note II smartphones in a little over a month since its launch. The South Korean firm said Friday sales of the oversize smartphone reached the figure 37 days after its September release. The Note II is one of the two key [...]

Posted: November 2nd, 2012 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Facts and figures on the new iPad mini

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SAN FRANCISCO, California–These are the principal features, pricing and availability of the new iPad mini tablet computer, sales of which started in Australia on Friday:

Posted: November 2nd, 2012 in Gadgets,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Android smartphone shipments boom: industry tracker

LATEST SMARTPHONE FROM SAMSUNG A model displays the new Galaxy Nexus smartphone during a news conference in Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd on Wednesday unveiled its Galaxy Nexus smartphone, the first to use the latest version of Google's Android operating system.  AP Photo/Kin Cheung

Android software powered three out of four smartphones shipped worldwide in the recently ended third quarter as the Google-backed mobile platform dominated the market, industry tracker IDC said Thursday.

Posted: November 2nd, 2012 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

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