Archive for November, 2011

How Malcolm Tucker swore onto the App Store

He’s well known as TV’s sweariest spin doctor, but how did The Thick Of It‘s Malcolm Tucker take the App Store by storm? At the Apps World conference in London, Dave Addey – managing director of mobile developer Agant – talked about the branded Malcolm Tucker: The Missing Phone app, which his company made for book publisher [...]

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HTC told: stop selling phones in Germany

German patent firm IPCom has ordered HTC to stop sales and distribution of all its smartphones in Germany, saying the Taiwanese firm faces fines if it does not comply. “If HTC fails to comply, and continues to sell UMTS-capable devices, IPCom will initiate a so-called ‘Zwangsgeldverfahren’ under German law, which will result in fines being [...]

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Lumia is not the messiah Nokia needs

Nokia‘s second coming, if it happens, is some way off. The Finnish giant is pinning its hopes of a return to the smartphone market on the newly arrived Lumia 800. But estimates for Christmas sales of its “Jesus phone” are dwindling by the day. Last week, US technology investment specialist Pacific Crest revised down its [...]

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Float could value Facebook at $100bn

Facebook, the world’s largest social network, is preparing for a public stock offering next spring which could raise up to $10bn, according to sources. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday night that the company is hoping that the IPO, which has been long rumoured, would value the company at around $100bn. Facebook’s chief financial [...]

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Lenovo unveils the LePad S2007 and LePad S2010, both with Honeycomb and 1.5GHz dual-core chip

Oh no, it isn’t just about the 5-inch tabletphone today. Announced at the same event in Beijing just now are a couple of larger tablets from Lenovo: the LePad S2007 and the LePad S2010. Interestingly, the latter 10.1-inch device isn’t quite the same as what we saw in our exclusive scoop from two weeks ago: [...]

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PS Vita line-up shows handheld commitment

Sony seems keen to avoid the trap that Nintendo’s 3DS fell into, with a range of launch titles for its PlayStation Vita that is long on both quality and quantity. Suggesting that the PS Vita launch on 22 February will be preceded by a considerable amount of hype, Sony has taken over what used to [...]

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A Facebook smartphone? Why?

At the end of last week’s Monday Note, I briefly wondered about the rumoured Amazon smartphone. Would it follow the Kindle Fire strategy: Pick Android’s lock and sell the device at or below cost in order to lubricate the wheels of Amazon’s e-commerce of tangible and intangible things? This week, we have the rebirth of [...]

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iPhone sales in UK triple in October

Pent-up UK demand for the new iPhone 4S meant that Apple sold more than three times as many phones in October as in any of the three previous months, eclipsing the rival Google platform, according to data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech. Data released by the research company show Apple’s iPhone took 42.8% of UK smartphone [...]

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Samsung Wave 3 crashes onto French shores

Samsung Launches Wave 3 in Global Markets November 28, 2011 Important milestone of bada powered smartphone, now commercially available with a range of upgraded Samsung Apps content Seoul, Korea, November 28, 2011 – Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone provider, today announced the commercial availability of its flagship 4″ Wave 3 smartphone. Initially [...]

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Cyber Monday is coming to town

Age: Six. Appearance: An inbox clogged with purchase confirmation emails. Sounds grisly. What is it? It’s the busiest day of the year for online shoppers. And when is it? That depends. On what? Who you ask. Some people think it’s today. Others think it was a week ago. I’m asking you. Which is it? Probably [...]

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