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Life’s not that good for LG’s mobile arm right now, as the company has fallen from its third-largest cell phone manufacturer slot, it has been outpaced and outclassed in the smartphone market while also being squeezed in the entry-level side. In a meeting at its Seoul headquarters, the company admitted its failings but believes it…
Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s CEO, is a man who can’t sit still. He recently spoke to CNN about the company’s current situation, how they can’t find enough skilled labor in America. We’ll get to that in a second. The thing we want to highlight is an account that Alex Elizardo, a student at the University of…
Winston Yung, an Americanized name if we ever heard one, is no longer HTC’s Chief Financial Officer. He’s been replaced by Chia-Lin Chang, who is not only a former Motorola engineer, but also a former Goldman Sachs partner. So why did HTC do this? These next few weeks are going to be absolutely vital for…
Yep, we’ve told you Asus will offer a free GPS dongle for Transformer Prime to fix positioning issues some users had with the tablet. The company has started sending out the following email to its customers: Although the TF201 is not a professional GPS device, as part of our unwavering commitment to our customers we…
Nokia’s smartphone unit doesn’t make any money. In fact, if it wasn’t for the feature phone division, there wouldn’t be a Nokia. Now during the past year or two we’ve heard about the Finnish handset maker closing their factories in Germany, Finland, Romania, and several other countries. Why? Because at the end of the day…
Samsung is trying really hard to go beyond hardware manufacturing. The Korean giant already has its Android UI (TouchWIZ), app store (Samsung Apps), mobile platform (Bada), as well as a number of app/content Hubs like the Gaming Hub, Social Hub and Learning Hub. Like that’s not enough, they also have their own group messaging client…
Lonely Planet announced a series of new country guide apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including apps covering Italy, Ireland, France, Spain, Australia and Costa Rica. As you can imagine from Lonely Planet apps, each comes with expert content and recommendations as well as detailed maps for the entire country – all of which…
BRAVEN, the company that used to call itself SPAR, launched what it says are “world’s first multi-tasking high-definition Bluetooth speakers with integrated smartphone charger and speakerphone.” There are three speakers in the series, all providing room-filling high-fidelity audio in a sleek design that delivers “unprecedented battery life.” Moreover, each allows users to charge USB devices…
Ice Age Village has been on the market for 10 days and it has been already downloaded more than 5 million times. Moreover, the game took the #1 ranking in the App Store’s Top Free Games category in over 50 countries for iPhone and over 90 countries for iPad; while also joining the App Stores’…
According to new report from Juniper Research, the number of consumers using mobile handsets to make person to person (P2P) domestic money transfers will reach 340 million by 2016, up from 84 million in 2011. The study titled “Mobile Money Transfer & Remittances” suggests that Safaricom’s MPESA service in Kenya inspired both network operators and…