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HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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After last weeks announcement of a licensing agreement with Foxconn, Microsoft's Horacio Gutierez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of the Intellectual Property Group, announced the next deal in a blog.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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We now have the final numbers reported by all four of the 'Big Four' analyst houses: IDC, Canalys, Strategy Analytics and Gartner. As always, I use the average of these four houses as the total market size, and then force a 'best fit' analysis.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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We are getting more results coming in from the smartphone bloodbath, while the new and old players are shuffling cards... Jolla gets an OEM manufacturer, Firefox OS gets a major Far Eastern backer and many more.
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SOFTWARE
NEWS
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Over the past couple of years, we saw a large progress in the world of user interfaces. What enabled the creation of those UIs is the development of middleware, such as Kanzi UX from Rightware.
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HARDWARE
NEWS
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While Mobile World Congress may be a week away from taking place in Barcelona, the smartphone arena is so heated up that manufacturers are launch news from the show - week ahead of the show.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Research firm IDC released a new report on the worldwide phone market for the third quarter 2011. The group states 393.7 million phones were shipped, 12.8% year-on-year increase.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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In this article, you'll find a preliminary projection for full year 2011 in terms of Smartphone market shares, and the separate market projections for the third and fourth quarter of 2011.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Let's do some Bloodbath news. How is the smartphone market doing mid-way in this Year 2 of Smartphones Bloodbath? The weather report for the summer is sunny for some, shady for others and stormy for some.
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BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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We finally have the numbers for all four major analyst houses. As always, we calculated the average of their totals to find the quarterly total smartphone sales - which came to 101.2 million, a 2% QoQ growth.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Where Apple was perfection in its 1Q results, Nokia is the total opposite. Nokia results were aweful in almost every way; while the industry grew from 4Q'10 to 1Q'11, Nokia saw declining ASPs, lost revenues, declined profits.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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The smartphone story is buzzing in the world. Did you know most featurephones have full web browsers, accept apps and often have advanced inputs like touch screens or QWERTY keyboards?
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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There is no other way of putting it, Nokia invented the smartphone. It also reinvented the smartphone, destroying competitors in the process. But then, Nokia made a crucial mistake.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Nokia published its quarterly results, delivering market gains in North America and Europe, but also mysteriously losing out in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region.
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