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AT&T announced its quarterly earnings on Thursday and reported a banner quarter that was driven by strong iPhone sales. The carrier had its best-ever quarter for smartphones, selling a record-breaking number of iPhones and Android handsets. Overall, the carrier sold 9.4 million smartphones which almost doubles it Q3 2011 sales. Smartphones are the dominant handset…
Looks like Apple’s recent purchase of Anobit was just the first step in the company’s expansion into Israel. Reports coming out of the Israeli daily business newspaper Calcalist say that Apple is going to open a Research Center in Haifa by the end of next month. Apple is said to be looking over “several hundred…
Motorola Mobility is suing Apple for infringing on six of its patents. The patents in question are related to wireless antennas, software, messaging, and data management — quite a bit of the entire experience of a smartphone is on the line here. Apple allegedly uses these patents in the iPhone 4S and iCloud. The lawsuit…
Samsung got a victory its long legal battle against rival Apple over allegations of patent infringement in the Netherlands. A Dutch court rejected Apple’s appeal to stop Samsung from selling its Galaxy tablet in the country and this is huge because it opens the door for all Dutch subsidiaries to distribute the Tab throughout the…
After an incredible earnings report, Apple’s stock has risen and the company has surpassed Exxon once again to become the most valuable U.S. company in the world. Apple’s stock hit $445.29 today and that brought its market capitalization to about $415 billion while the oil giant Exxon had a market cap of $414 billion. The…
Mobile VoIP provider Vopium updated its iPhone app, allowing users to top-up their accounts via in-app payments, instead of having to enter credit card details for calls to non-Vopium users (i.e. mobile phones and landlines). In addition, version 2.1 also comes with presence indication of Vopium contacts for push-notification-based calling. This feature is said to…
Remember the Vintage Camera app we talked about a month ago? Well since then it has hit and surpassed 3 million downloads in the Apple AppStore, which is an impressive figure. Moreover, the free version has reached the #1 most downloaded app of all free apps in iTunes Japan and iTunes Thailand during Christmas holidays,…
Apple gains another notch on its belt by becoming the largest chip (semiconductor) purchaser in the world, beating out Samsung for the top spot, according to data from Gartner. The Cupertino-based company spent $17.3 billion on semiconductors in 2011, which catapulted it up to a 5.7 percent total share of chip purchasing. Rounding out last years…
Verizon announced during its earnings call today that 15 million Android phones were activated and nearly 11 million iPhones were sold. This news comes after the largest wireless carrier in the United States activated a record of over 4 million iPhones in the fourth quarter. Apparently these numbers weren’t too impressive as investors punished the company’s…
Anderson Teixeira used to be the President of Sony Ericsson’s U.S. division until very recently. According to 9to5Mac his new role is Head of Apple’s Latin American division. What’s his C.V. like? Well, he’s from Brazil, has been with Sony Ericsson since the company launched in 2001, he started his career as head of Sony…