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Smartphone traffic to grow 700% in five years
iPhone users generate more traffic than users of any other platform, according to Informa's research Smartphone use accounts for 65 per cent of all mobile cellular traffic worldwide, despite smartphone...
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Vodafone UK launches enterprise smartphone offering
Vodafone UK wants to offer corporate customers a range of device options Vodafone UK has launched an enterprise smartphone service allowing corporate customers to manage and secure their data over a...
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Can Android’s rising tide lift Motorola?
Can Android lift Motorola? Android’s march towards market dominance continues apace with reports from ABI Research that the collective share of the smartphone market held by Android-based phones has...
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Yahoo acquires mobile TV-tagging start up
Yahoo! has acquired TV tagging start up IntoNow Yahoo has acquired TV tagging start-up IntoNow in a deal reported to be worth between $20-30m. The purchase is expected to bolster the firm’s video and...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: The boy named Sue
To a man with an iHammer, everything looks like an iNail, as the Informer’s great friend Mark Twain once said. And just to prove the old man right, the powers-that-be at Cupertino are suing Samsung,...
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Google gets the go-ahead for Nortel patents bid; RIM also interested
Google has got the go-ahead for its $900bn bid for Nortel's patent assets Google’s bid to buy $900m worth of Nortel patents and patent applications was approved on Monday. The planned sale required the...
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China Mobile and Apple agree on LTE-TDD iPhone
China Mobile will be released a TDD-LTE iPhone. The only question is when. While the signs are that the next iPhone will not feature LTE, Apple has “reached consensus” with China Mobile on the use of...
View ArticleErase and rewind
In a week during which the UK distinguished itself as the “Whiplash Capital of Europe” thanks to its rep for filing dodgy insurance claims, The Informer is pleased to note that, in the technology world...
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US DoJ reportedly concerned about Nortel patent bids
The US DoJ is reportedly concered that bids for Nortel patents will be used to reduce competition in the telecoms market As interest in defunct kit maker Nortel’s patent portfolio heightens, the US...
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Nokia takes a bite out of Apple
Apple has agreed to pay Nokia licensing fees for its technologies Nokia has announced the settlement of a long-running patent spat with Apple. Under the terms of the agreement, Apple will pay an...
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Dolby to sue RIM over sound compression patents
Dolby is suing RIM over alleged infringement of its audio compression patents Research in Motion (RIM), already under pressure from declining sales and a pending class action suit from disgruntled...
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Skype introduces cross-platform video calling
Skype has launched a cross-platform video calling service Skype has upped its game in the mobile market, with the announcement of a “killer ability” that has long been waited for: cross platform video...
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FT app gets pulled from iTunes
The FT has pulled its app from the App Store The Financial Times (FT) has had its iPad app removed from iTunes following a dispute with Apple. The decision was made after the FT refused to comply with...
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Qualcomm integrated 3G/LTE chipset could power iPhone 5
Qualcomm's Gobi 4000 could be the integrated LTE/3G chipset that Apple is waiting to include in the iPhone 5 Chipmaker Qualcomm has announced the Gobi 4000, its first integrated chipset that supports...
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Some iPhone apps failing Vodafone quality tests
Lee Epting, group director of content services at Vodafone Some applications available through Apple’s App Store are failing to meet Vodafone’s internal quality standards, accessing APIs that are...
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Apple’s profit surges at operators’ expense
2Q12 was the first full quarter that the iPhone 4S was on the market Despite operator frustrations at the huge markups they have to pay on iPhone devices, Apple’s momentum has not been suppressed and...
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Apple eyeing mobile payments with AuthenTec deal
AuthenTec's fingerprint technology could be key to Apple's mobile payment efforts Apple has agreed to acquire fingerprint security firm AuthenTec in a deal worth around $356m. AuthenTec’s fingerprint...
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Apple wins big in Android patent dispute
Apple has won $1bn in damages from Samsung over the Korean vendor's Android portfolio The ongoing patent wars between mobile device manufacturers featured a decisive battle late Friday, when the jury...
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Is your network iPhone 5 ready?
With smartphones becoming ever more feature rich and data intensive, mobile network operators need to assess whether their network is ‘iPhone 5 ready’. Staying ahead of the next wave of new devices,...
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iPhone helps push Verizon LTE data traffic to 50 per cent
Since the release of the iPhone 5, half of Verizon's data traffic is carried on its LTE network Half of the data traffic on US carrier Verizon Wireless is now carried on its LTE network, its CEO...
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