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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 $30,000 in cash as well as three cellphones including two BlackBerry phones, an iPod Touch along with shoes and clothing that were in a bag.

It is reported that the thief also took her mother’s purse containing important documents and identification cards.

Latty J said “It was basically four of us standing waiting for a bus, me, my mother and two other members of my family. It wasn’t even 8 o’clock good … it was a little after 7 p.m., and we were standing waiting for a bus and saw this man approaching casually. My mother wanted to make sure we were at the right place so she asked the guy if this was where the 53 bus runs,” she said. “He answered my mother and then brandished the gun and started to rob us.”

Latty J told THE STAR that a report was made to the Stony Hill police and a search of the area was carried out minutes after the incident.

Police sources at the Stony Hill Police Station confirmed the incident, however, no one has been arrested and investigation into the robbery is ongoing.

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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 the HTC One S with those of the iPhone 4S.

Design
The iPhone 4S is well known for its innovative design and impressive build quality. The HTC One S looks similar to many of the manufacturer’s other devices like the HTC Sensation. However, the HTC One S features a unibody design which is given a very unique treatment to alter the way it looks, as well as affecting its durability. The body of the One S is made from a single piece of aircraft grade aluminium, and this is given a treatment of 10,000 volts of electricity. This changes the colour of the unit to an attractive matt black, and provides a ceramic finish. Additionally, the material then becomes six times stronger than aerospace aluminium (according to HTC). This makes the HTC One S one of the most unique devices out there in terms of its built quality and manufacturing process.

Screen
The iPhone 4S has the renowned retina display, which gets its name because of the fact that the pixels on it are so fine that the human eye cannot distinguish between individual pixels. The resolution of the screen on the HTC One S is slightly below that of the retina display, at 540x 960 but in reality you are unlikely to notice the difference between the two when watching a video, photo slideshow, or playing a game for example. Aside from the resolution, the screen technology itself varies greatly between the two phones. The iPhone 4S uses an IPS LED backlit panel, whereas the HTC One S has a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, making it the first HTC phone to do so. The benefits of this technology include better 3D display, brightness, wide viewing angles, and of course it is very responsive to touch.

Camera
When choosing a new smartphone, the camera is often one of the most important features for many people. Both the iPhone 4S and the HTC One S are actually pretty evenly matched in this respect. Both sport 8 megapixels and share features such as 1080p video capture, LED flash, autofocus, image stabilisation and face detection among their camera specifications. The resolution of 8 megapixels produces high quality still images on both phones, and thanks to their varied package of connectivity options, makes it easy to stream photos and videos to other devices like computers and TVs.

There are of course several other features which could be compared, which I will cover in another article. Choosing between the two is likely to come down to personal preference for either HTC or Apple, or Android or iOS (the respective operating systems of each phone). Both are excellent phones though, so you are unlikely to regret your choice, whichever one you choose.

Check out the best iPhone 4S deals:
http://www.phoneslimited.co.uk/Apple/iPhone+4S+16GB.html
and HTC One S deals:
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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 seller of Android-based phones.

According to the DigiTimes story, the new Facebook/HTC phone “will have a platform exclusive to Facebook to enable and integrate all functions available on the social networking site.” HTC has previously sold two Facebook-enabled smartphones, the Salsa and Chacha.

The obvious question: If Facebook has a smartphone, will people “like” it?

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 jumped nearly 7 percent to 3.2 trillion yen ($39.5 billion).

Tokyo-based Softbank credited the boost in earnings to iPhone 4S launched by Apple Inc. in October.

The fortunes of Softbank, once the underdog in Japan’s telecom industry, have improved after it started selling the iPhone in 2008.

Initially, Softbank was the only Japanese phone company to offer the iPhone. Rival KDDI Corp. began to sell the iPhone from late last year.

Softbank still remains the sole vendor of the popular iPad in Japan.

Softbank, which also offers fixed-line broadband services, has carried out an aggressive marketing drive in recent years, starring a talking white dog that has proved popular among Japanese.

Softbank’s success defied initial skepticism about embracing Apple products because of the strong position of local electronics makers previously reputed for the world’s most advanced cell phones.

Highlighting the success of that strategy was a key part of the earnings presentation by Softbank President Masayoshi Son, often praised as Japan’s Steve Jobs.

“Softbank was the first to focus all our managerial resources on smartphones,” Son said.

He said the three must-haves of the 20th Century — the washing machine, fridge and TV — had changed in the 21st century to the iPhone, iPad and cloud computing services.

Son has recently become highly visible in pushing solar technology. That has made him stand out even more because the government is eager to stick to nuclear power.

Japanese public interest in solar and other renewable energy has been growing since the March 11, 2011 tsunami set off a nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan.

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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 $15.5 billion over four years — a big sum for a company in a precarious financial position — and analysts have noted that the phone could push Sprint over the edge, into bankruptcy.

But in the first quarter, the iPhone appeared to help Sprint recruit subscribers and get more money out of each one.

Sprint added a net 263,000 subscribers to the Sprint network on contract-based plans, which are the most lucrative. That was up just a smidgen from last year’s figure in the same quarter, but it comes as ATT and Verizon Wireless have seen big drops in new customers.

Excluding tablets, which earn lower fees, Verizon Wireless added a net of about 240,000 customers in the quarter, while ATT added 7,000.

The Sprint figure includes some tablets, but the number is likely small, because unlike Verizon and ATT, Sprint does not sell the iPad.

Sprint’s data network is much slower than Verizon’s or ATT’s, but it has been luring smartphone subscribers by offering unlimited data usage. ATT and Verizon Wireless have stopped signing up new customers for unlimited data plans, and ATT has started slowing down data usage severely once customers on its “unlimited data” plan hit certain usage limits.

On a call with analysts Wednesday, Hesse defended the iPhone, saying customer desire for the device and lower customer support costs justify the price.

“The evidence so far supports our decision to carry the phone,” Hesse said.

Sprint activated 1.5 million iPhones in the quarter, down from 1.8 million in the fourth quarter.

Helped by a $10 per month surcharge on smartphones imposed last year, Sprint’s wireless service revenue rose 7.4 percent from a year ago, compared to 7.7 percent at Verizon, which has had more time to sell the iPhone. At ATT, the figure was 4.3 percent.

“Sprint posted easily the most impressive (quarter) in U.S. telecom,” said Kevin Smithen, an analyst at Macquarie Securities.

Sprint shares 4 cents, or 1.6 percent, to $2.51 in mid-morning trading. The shares are still close to a three-year low of $2.10 hit in January.

However, Sprint’s contract subscriber additions turn into a net loss of 192,000 when the outdated Nextel network is included. Since buying Nextel in 2005, Sprint has struggled with the cost of running two disparate wireless networks, even as Nextel customers have cancelled service in droves. It’s scheduled to shut the network down next year.

The depreciation, or drop in value, of the Nextel network widened Sprint’s net loss from January through March to $863 million, or 29 cents per share. In the same quarter last year, the Overland Park, Kan., company’s loss was $439 million, or 15 cents per share.

Analysts polled by FactSet were on average expecting a loss of 42 cents per share. Sprint beat that with the help of the better service revenues and a one-time benefit from a cancelled network-sharing contract.

Revenue was $8.73 billion, up 5 percent from a year ago. Analysts were expecting $8.71 billion.

Sprint has already started thinning out the Nextel network, turning off cell towers. Steve Elfman, the head of network operations, said this shouldn’t affect service, since there are only 5.4 million Nextel subscribers left. That’s 10 percent of the overall number of Sprint Nextel customers.

On the radio frequencies freed up by the Nextel phase-out, Sprint is building a new fourth-generation, or 4G, wireless broadband network using the “LTE” technology ATT and Verizon are using. It’s reducing its reliance on Clearwire Corp.’s 4G network for data service for its smartphones. That means Clearwire 4G, which is based on an older network technology, is no longer a selling point for its smartphones. Sprint will now make Clearwire 4G available on phones for its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile pay-as-you go brands, Hesse said.

Sprint has 15.3 million pay-as-you-go subscribers, making it second only to Tracfone in the U.S. no-contract phone market.

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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 11.8 million iPads, well over twice as many it sold in the first quarter of 2011.

“[The iPhone] blew through our … forecast,” acknowledged Brian White of Topeka Capital Markets, which had pegged iPhone sales of just 29.6 million units.

Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said the iPhone and iPad numbers showed “aggressive growth.”

Revenue of $39.2 billion was a record for any quarter that ended in March, although it was about $7 billion short of the all-time record set last quarter. Sales rose by 59% over the year-ago period, and the net profit of $11.6 billion, which also a record for the first quarter, was nearly double what the company booked in the first three months of 2011.

As has become the trend, Apple’s revenue was fueled by another big jump for the iPhone, the line that accounted for almost 58% of Apple’s revenue, an even larger percentage than last quarter’s 53% contribution.

It was the second consecutive quarter that the iPhone accounted for more than half of the company’s revenue.

“Apple is a phone company, but it’s not your father’s phone company,” Gottheil said about the iPhone’s contribution.

Apple’s 35.1 million iPhone sold was almost as high as the record 37 million units it sold last quarter. The 35.1 million number blew by the consensus estimates of Wall Street analysts, who again seriously underestimated sales by predicting Apple would sell just 31 million iPhones.

Among the sales drivers, said chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer, were strong sales of the iPhone in China, where Apple sold five times as many units as in the year-ago quarter.

Apple began selling the iPhone 4S in China in mid-January, nearly three months after the U.S. launch, and two weeks into the quarter just reported.

Another contributing factor, said Oppenheimer, was an additional 2.6 million iPhones that Apple coaxed out of its suppliers during the quarter, a move that let the company meet demand for the first time since Apple introduced the iPhone 4S last October.

Sales of the iPad were also brisk, but did not match the blow-out quarter at the end of the 2011: Apple sold 11.8 million iPads, up 132% over the same quarter in 2011 but down 24% from the previous quarter.

The iPad brought in 16.8% of Apple’s income for the quarter.

One analyst noticed a drop in the average sales price (ASP) for the iPad line, and asked Oppenheimer if that meant the price cut on the iPad 2 had boosted sales, and if so, what that told the company about the business it could do with lower-priced tablets.

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