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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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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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(Credit: Apple) (CBS News) Rumors of a low-cost iPhone “nano” are making rounds. A new report by the China Times claims that Apple is planning to release low-cost iPhone “nano” this year. According to the Times, the move aims to make gains on the low-end smartphone market. Full coverage of Apple at Tech Talk If [...]
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The iPhone 4S may still be flying off store shelves, but whispers about the next iPhone’s potential features are already beginning to surface. The iPhone 5 (if it’s even called that) reportedly will feature a a whole new redesign, and may hit shelves as soon as October, according to reports citing a variety of insider [...]
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Last Christmas, Lisbeth Ortega received a camera from her mom. She soon returned it. Skip to next paragraph 20 essential Android tips and tricks Instagram and four other apps that hit it big Instagram gives Facebook 5 million reasons to love recent acquisition iPhone camera can be improved dramatically by apps “I actually decided to [...]
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I’ve been fiddling around with the HTC One S for a few days now, and I have to say it’s stolen a little piece of my heart. The hardware is just about perfect, with a 4.3-inch qHD display and a slender aluminum unibody shell, and software like HTC’s Sense 4 overlay and Android 4.0 Ice [...]
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Heart Rate Monitors California has the new iPhone 4S Ultimate Bike Pack for cyclists that want to use their iPhone as a complete bike computer and heart rate monitor for exercise. This pack has an extended battery that gives iPhone a 250% boost in battery life. SanFrancisco, CA (PRWEB) April 21, 2012 The new iPhone [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 (UPI) — When Apple releases a new iPhone, expected in October, it may use a material called liquidmetal to differentiate the item from its competition, analysts say. Liquidmetal — a mix of titanium, nickel, copper and zirconium discovered in 1992 at the California Institute of Technology — is not actually liquid [...]
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Apple (AAPL) earnings are next week, and the buzz cycle is in full effect. Focus has moved this year from the new iPad, to conditions at Foxconn, to Apple shares topping $600, to earnings, to Apple shares falling below $600. And now, it’s all about the iPhone again — specifically, the casing and the launch. [...]
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Thefts of iPads and iPhones are up 44 percent in New York City this year, NYPD statistics show. This yearspike in city-wide thefts of popular Apple devices like iPhones and iPads in the part of 2012 from the same period last year, according to NYPD statistics. The in-demand devices which can retail from $200 to [...]
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Qualcomm supply issues may delay iPhone 5 launch to October By Lynn La on Apr 20, 2012 The next iPhone could work on LTE networks. (Credit: Apple) According to an industry note from investment banking firm Piper Jaffray, Apple will most likely continue its trend of October launches and wait until this fall to release [...]
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Apple’s next iPhone may tap into new touch panel technology, allowing for a lighter device, according to an Asia-based report. An improvement in production “yield rates” of “in-cell touch panels” has induced Apple to begin working with two Japanese companies, DigiTimes said, citing sources. Those panels are being made by Japan-based Sharp and a division [...]
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NEW YORK—Holiday sales of the iPhone 4S started to boost revenue at Verizon Communications Inc. in the latest quarter, as subscribers settled in to paying their new monthly bills. That meant that wireless service revenues grew at their fastest pace in three years at Verizon Wireless. The country’s largest cellphone company started selling the iPhone [...]
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Holiday sales of the iPhone 4S started to boost revenue at Verizon Communications Inc. in the latest quarter, as subscribers settled in to paying their new monthly bills. That meant that wireless service revenues grew at their fastest pace in three years at Verizon Wireless. The country’s largest cellphone company started selling the iPhone 4 [...]
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For Verizon Communication, the iPhone is the gift that keeps giving. Monthly bills for all those iPhone 4S smartphones that found new homes over the holidays are to be thanked for a boost in first-quarter revenue. The impact of the iPhone generated the fastest revenue growth in three years for Verizon Wireless, the country’s biggest [...]
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(Wired) — After releasing two generations of iPhones with exactly the same form factor, Apple is expected to show off a new chassis design — and possibly new materials — in its sixth-generation smartphone. And a little-known alloy that Apple has quietly been using for the past two years could be just the ticket to [...]