Latest and Breaking Mobile Tech News and Top Stories - July 7
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The wait for Microsoft's Lumia 930 in the UK is over, nearly five months after a similar handset -- the Lumia Icon -- debuted in the US. Have potential buyers already moved on or will the Lumia 930 still be well received?
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The Spanish firm filed for bankruptcy protection after due diligence-focused investment outfit Gotham City Research exposed phoney revenues and inflated hotspot claims.
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Check out the official teaser and a very unofficial hands-on video with the rumored Sony selfie phone. The post Sony teases launch of “selfie phone” for tomorrow appeared first on Pocketnow .
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Microsoft's Nokia unit is going to release a smartphone in its flagship Lumia line that runs Google's Android software, according to a post from noted mobile leaker @evleaks.
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The LG G Watch is available now on the Google Play Store for $229. AT&T hopes that a 50 percent price cut for the Android Wear smartwatch helps move some LG G3 smartphones; you can bundle the two and save on the G Watch.
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ROK Mobile, a new music-focused MVNO, launched its service on Friday, but the company is limiting how many people can try its service as it hopes to build buzz around the new offering.
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Discover when AT&T LG G3 sales kick off, how much you'll pay, and how it could let you save some money on the G Watch. The post AT&T LG G3, G Watch sales getting underway this week appeared first on Pocketnow .
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HTC's newest device aimed at the Asian market packs respectable specs, but its success depends on its pricing in local markets.
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Venture capital-backed Zayo Group, which has been ambitiously building an international fiber network through acquisitions, now has plans to go public. The Colorado-based company recently filed its S1 form for an initial public offering ...
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Spirent Communications has agreed to buy the assets of Radvision’s Technology Business Unit, which includes development and testing capabilities for video and voice over LTE (VoLTE), for $25 million. Radvision TBU is based in Tel A...
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T-Mobile US CEO John Legere fired back at the Federal Trade Commission, accusing the agency of "sensationalizing" a lawsuit it filed against the carrier for allegedly charging customers hundreds of millions of dollars for purpo...
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As data becomes increasingly important to service assurance, Anritsu is taking a more active role in providing data the helps the network to operate. The company elaborated in an interview at TM Forum Live. Jeff Mucci: Service assurance ...
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Comments and presentations are rolling in to the FCC regarding its plan to use spectrum-sharing techniques to open up the 3.5 GHz band for wireless broadband use. The idea to create a Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) in ...
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Mobile Minute: The Mobile Minute is sponsored by SpiderCloud Wireless The Transportation Safety Board (TSA) says it will not allow uncharged cell phones or other uncharged portable electronics to board U.S.-bound planes from some airport...
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Will full Windows Phone Android app compatibility ever come to Microsoft's platform? The rumor pops back up in light of new Lumia Android whispers. The post Windows Phone Android app support could still be happening appeared first on Poc...
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It appears that it will only take five years from the iPad's introduction for tablet sales to outpace those of traditional computers. No, tablets can't replace PCs for everyone, but they do more than enough for many people.
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The G Pad 10.1, LG's largest tablet, sports value-oriented specs and will go on sale in the United States later this month.
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There's now one more thing to remember on the way to the airport: charge your devices or you may not be able to board overseas flights to U.S. cities.
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There may be a light at the end of the tunnel for contractors who have been forced to cut workers due to AT&T’s infrastructure spending slowdown. Analysts and contractors are saying that they expect the nation’s second l...
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Neelie Kroes, the European Commission (EC) vice president with responsibility for the Digital Agenda, said 5G technology will deliver more than just a step up from current 4G (LTE) networks.
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Telekom Srpske, which operates mobile services under the m:tel brand in the Banja Luka area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is now planning to launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) in Austria.
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As an acronym, C-RAN has less name recognition than its more popular cousins, SDN and NFV, though if you are in the wireless business it is equally important as we look at the future of the wireless network and its continued evolution ov...
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Ericsson continued to push for global 5G standards by signing a deal to work with South Korea's largest mobile operator, SK Telecom, to develop core technologies for the next generation network.
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Telenor said an LTE roaming agreement covering Norway it signed with Tele2 in April still stands, despite the latter agreeing to sell its local business to rival TeliaSonera. TeliaSonera has agreed to buy Tele2 Norway for an enterprise v...
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Orange CEO, Stephane Richard, said the operator is still prepared to take part in consolidating the French mobile market in order to reduce pricing competition, but called on the operator's rivals to take the lead because Orange does...
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We've got a pretty interesting leak (prediction) from @evleaks: a Lumia running Android is incoming, made by "Nokia by Microsoft". The post Lumia running Android rumored to be arriving appeared first on Pocketnow .
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While IoT creates process improvements across all industries and facets of life, it increases the need for mobile security.
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Total global revenue from mobile media and advertising will pass $90 billion (€66 billion) in 2018 up from $53 billion in 2014.
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Carbon nanotubes may be the key to enabling smaller transistors, and engineers at IBM hope to have nanotube technology ready for commercialization soon after 2020. The focus on nanotubes reflects the fact that it is becoming increasingly...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is warning that certain devices running on the Google Android operating system may reveal their owner's location history to anyone within Wi-Fi range. That is because when they are not connect...
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Today we're diving into the types of displays under the glass, pros and cons of both types, and what you'll want in your next smartphone screen. The post What you need to know about smartphone screens, part 2 (video) appeared first on Po...
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LTE Broadcast is primed to help service providers efficiently offer consumers personalized mobile TV, according to Joerg Huschke, Ericsson master researcher. "We believe LTE will play a major role in TV distribution in the near futu...
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Madrid-based Wi-Fi service provider Gowex filed for bankruptcy protection upon the resignation of its CEO and president, Jenaro Garcia Martin, who acknowledged he has been cooking the firm's books for four years.
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It should come as no surprise that the wizards who frequent online communities like XDA Developers and elsewhere that the preview for Android L has been successfully installed on a Nexus 4. The Nexus 4 will get the official Android updat...
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As part of new security protocol at foreign airports, the United States Transportation Security Administration will require cell phones and select electronic devices to be fully charged with the ability to be powered on when going throug...
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The unannounced Sony D6653 took a visit to the AnTuTu benchmark site, and scored a rather lofty 37,169. The interesting thing is that the Sony D6653 could be the Sony Xperia Z3. That would be the next flagship model for the manufacturer....
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This is for all you folk that either ordered their Android Wear device or have theirs already in-hand and on-wrist. If you have it on the way to your doorstep, then keep this one in mind, but if you have the Wear on your wrist as you re...
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We took a look a couple weeks back that MediaTek chips would be ending up in four to five Sony smartphones during 2015, now they have narrowed down even more to the MT6732, a 64-bit processor. Sony plans on using the MediaTek chips in t...
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Looking to purchase the Samsung Gear Fit for your wrist? Suppose we told you that by making the purchase from Amazon, you could save 50% Normally priced at $199, the online retailer is offering the device for $99. With its always-on scre...
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Amazon has the Gear Fit for just $99.99 right no, which is about half off of it’s normal price. Although I think this is the price it should have always been, since it does considerably less than the Gear 2 Neo which was the same p...
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While I have been jailbreaking for close to seven years, there are others that are newer to the scene. If you are planning on jailbreaking your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, or even if you have just recently jailbroken, there are several g...
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The launch of the original Apple iPhone in 2007 shook the industry and changed the face of the smartphones. While technically ‘smartphones’ did exist long before, it was not until the iPhone that we got them to their current form with su...
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QR Codes are one of those things where you either love using them or they just don't seem to actually add any convenience to your life. The tech has been around for ages, and every time someone tries to breathe new life into this quick g...
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It should come as no surprise that the wizards who frequent online communities like XDA Developers and elsewhere that the preview for Android L has been successfully installed on a Nexus 4. The Nexus 4 will get the official Android u...
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The next build of Windows Phone 8.1 is already being tested. On benchmarking site WPBench, somebody has put up build number 8.10.14130 for Windows Phone 8.1. The OS build for the GDR3 version of Windows Phone 8.1 is 8.0.10532. The develo...
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These hot summer days are the perfect time to pack your most essential list of gadgets and hit the road - but staying at a hotel or just camping outdoors - you can still end up in a place where there is no Wi-Fi network to connect your t...
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Next Month, it will be 6 months since Sony released the Xperia Z2 at the MWC 2014 on January. It hasn't been that long, but rumors and leaks about Sony Xperia Z3 has already started to spread around the web. Sony says it has committed it...
