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Andre’ Majhail Williams, STAR Writer Digicel Rising Star 2011 finalist Latoya Jackson, more popularly known as ‘Latty J’, along with other members of her family were robbed at gunpoint on the weekend. Reports are that the robbery took place along a section of the Old Stony Hill main road. Latty J said the robber took [...]
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Tweet Unlocking Blackberry Codes Now Available For Blackberry Torch 9860 At www.blackberryunlocksim.com Unlocking a Blackberry phone makes it more versatile for both applications and what phone networks it can operate on. (EMAILWIRE.COM, April 24, 2012 ) New York, NY — “How do you unlock a blackberry??” This is a question asked by many people who [...]
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PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 03, 2012 – The HTC One S is a new release from the manufacturer’s recently unveiled ‘One’ range. Featuring a number of impressive devices, the One S is the mid range offering, and has several very impressive features. In this article I will compare some of the key features of [...]
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Facebook is working with HTC on a “customized” smartphone that is expected to launch in the third quarter or later, DigiTimes reports, citing “industry sources.” The piece notes that HTC had worked with Google on the Next One phone, but that Google is now working with Samsung on new phones. Samsung has become the leading [...]
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TOKYO — Annual profit at Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. surged 65 percent, driven by strong demand for Apple’s iPhone 4S. Softbank, which did not break down quarterly numbers, Thursday reported a net profit of 313.8 billion yen ($3.9 billion) for the fiscal year through March, up from 189.7 billion yen the previous year. Annual sales [...]
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NEW YORK — The iPhone boosted struggling Sprint Nextel Corp. in the latest quarter, letting it beat ATT and perhaps even Verizon in recruiting high-paying phone subscribers to the Sprint network. Sprint started selling the iPhone in October, after ATT and Verizon. To get it, it had to promise Apple that it would buy phones for [...]
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Computerworld - Apple on Tuesday announced record first-quarter revenue on the back of soaring iPhone sales, with an assist from the iPad. During an earnings call with Wall Street analysts and reporters, Apple said it had sold 35.1 million iPhones during the quarter, an increase of 88% from the same period a year ago, and [...]
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By 24/7 Wall St. Near the rear of ATT (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless retail stores sit smartphones like the HTC Trophy, the LG Vortex and Sony Experia. These usually sell for less than high-end Samsung smartphones and the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, which is so popular that it has display cases of its own. HTC, LG [...]
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Related Stories: Tablet news roundup: RIM’s BlackPad,… RIM rolls out BlackBerry 7.1 OS upgrade… RIM launches BlackBerry Curve 9220 in… Research in Motion (RIM) and Samsung have opened their dedicated brand stores in Delhi – a move that is likely to help the smartphone majors consolidate their position in the rapidly growing Indian market. The [...]
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MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Yesterday morning, heading into Apple’s (AAPL) fiscal second-quarter earnings report, I opined that things were starting to look dicey for the most important company in the world, relative to last quarter, which had a seemingly non-stop stream of positive anecdotes and news items. (See: Apple: Earnings Are Coming, and Things Are Looking a [...]
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1. Breathing New Life Into Old Handsets Don’t dump your old phone – it’s not as useless as you think! Most of us replace our smartphone every 18 to 24 months. With the rate that smartphone technology has been advancing, a two-year-old device can really seem ancient, but is it really? To put this into [...]
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comScore sees smartphone take hold in Japan Smartphones have broken the reign of the traditional Japanese cellphone for the first time, comScore found late Monday. As of February, smartphones were overall more popular than keitais, the often feature-heavy but complicated basic phones that have dominated Japanese use for more than a decade. Local brands like [...]
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Of 49.6 billion visits to the top 500 e-retailers in 2014, 26.4 billion, or 53.2%, will stem from smartphones, predicts mobile commerce technology vendor Branding Brand in a new study. There will be 41.0 billion visits to the top 500 e-commerce sites this year, 10.1 billion, or 24.6%, coming from smartphones, the study predicts. Branding [...]
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Migicovsky says he started out making watches that integrated with BlackBerry phones. When he decided last year to create a new device that did the same for iOS and Android smartphones, the idea landed him in the renowned Y Combinator start-up incubator. Four angel investors—including Y Combinator partner and Gmail creator Paul Buccheit and Draper [...]
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THE police force is forking out more than £2 million to hand over BlackBerry phones to its officers. The move comes so Gloucestershire police can keep bobbies on the beat instead of returning to the office to do their paperwork. Gloucestershire Constabulary The force was keeping quiet about how much the scheme for nearly [...]
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BY ROLFE WINKLER AND HESTER PLUMRIDGE Low prices haven’t attracted customers to Nokia and BlackBerry phones. Cheap share prices likely won’t attract buyers for the companies that make them—at least any time soon. Nokia stock is setting new multiyear lows and Fitch on Tuesday downgraded its debt to “junk” status. Meanwhile, freefalling Research in Motion, [...]
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April 24, 2012 9:47 pm By Richard Waters and Chris Nuttall in San Francisco
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Much stronger-than-expected iPhone sales helped Apple nearly double its profit last quarter. The world’s most valuable company said it sold 35.1 million iPhones during the first three months of 2012, soundly beating analysts’ expectations. That was a relief to investors, following weaker-than-expected iPhone activations from Verizon and ATT during the quarter. Shares of Apple rose [...]
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The company reported Tuesday that soaring sales of the iPhone, especially in China, helped Apple nearly double its profit in the company’s fiscal second quarter. Apple said it sold 35.1 million iPhones in the quarter, an 88 percent increase from the period a year ago. It sold 11.8 million iPads, more than double the number [...]
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Users Spreading the Word via Facebook, Twitter and Email Receive 250 MB Free Music Storage for Each Friend Registering to MyMusicCloud New York, NY (PRWEB) April 23, 2012 When you find something great, you naturally want to share it with your friends. MyMusicCloud is now rewarding users who have friends register for the cloud music [...]
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AMD has now officially updated its HD 7000M lineup of mobile GPUs with HD 7700M, HD 7800M and HD 7900M GPUs… More…
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(Wall Street Journal) – Apple and Samsung Electronics should make it abundantly clear this week that the smartphone industry is increasingly dividing into the haves and have-nots. The two companies are expected to report record earnings for the first three months of the year, largely on the strength of smartphone sales. Together they ship nearly [...]
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Solid Growth in Earnings, Revenues and Margins, and $4.7 Billion Returned to Shareholders Highlight ATT’s First-Quarter Results Wireless Margins Expand and Smartphone Sales Set First-Quarter Record; 30 Percent of Smartphone Customers are on 4G-Capable Devices Dallas, Texas, April 24, 2012 ShareThis $0.60 diluted EPS compared to $0.57 diluted EPS in the first quarter of 2011 [...]
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WASHINGTON, April 24 (UPI) — Although tablets and smartphones provide digital access to video, 91 percent of U.S. consumption still comes on traditional TVs in real time, analysts say. While consumers increasingly are watching video on more devices and at more locations, TV at home still remains most Americans’ primary source, Nielsen Vice Chairman Susan [...]
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The nation’s biggest carrier, Verizon, had a similar story in its earnings report last week: slower growth in new customers, but nonetheless a profitable quarter. Both carriers are milking profits from the same cash cow, data, which generates regular fees from customers when they browse the Web, watch videos or stream music over carrier networks. [...]