Apple has provided an unusually detailed accounting of how it handles customers’ location information and privacy, following a query sent to the company by two Congressmen. The iPhone maker reiterated in a letter published Monday that it does not share location information with outside parties without a customer’s permission. If customers agree to use location-based [...]
Is the iPad edging out e-readers and portable game consoles? (Credit: Resolve Market Research) Apple’s iPad may be putting a damper on demand for e-readers and portable game consoles, according to the results of a new survey by Resolve Market Research. The study examined the spending habits and attitudes of current and potential owners of [...]
Sterlite Technologies Ltd. expects its order book to grow as much as 25% and its operating margin to widen this fiscal year as demand for its power and optical fiber cables rises and costs stabilize, said a senior executive Monday. The company’s order book is likely to reach INR30 billion by the end of the [...]
Is the iPad edging out e-readers and portable game consoles? (Credit: Resolve Market Research) Apple’s iPad may be putting a damper on demand for e-readers and portable game consoles, according to the results of a new survey by Resolve Market Research. The study examined the spending habits and attitudes of current and potential owners of [...]
When Intel Corp. posted its best quarter ever this past week, industry watchers noted that the good news extends beyond the chip maker and touches on the high-tech industry and possibly the U.S. economy. Intel, on the strength of strong server chip sales, reported hefty earnings for the second quarter of fiscal 2010. The chip [...]
In the latest installment of Seagate’s GoFlex series of portable and desktop hard drives, Seagate today introduced the GoFlex Home network-connected drive. Available in 1TB ($160) and 2TB ($229) capacities, the drive works with Windows and Mac systems. Seagate expects the 1TB to street for $139, which puts it at about $40 more than the [...]
Mobile Telecommunications Co. Saudi Arabia, better known as Zain Saudi Arabia, said Saturday its second-quarter net loss narrowed to 632 million Saudi riyals ($168.5 million) from SAR857 million a year ago as it added subscribers. First-half losses per share came in at SAR0.92, versus SAR1.16 in the year-ago period, the telecom firm said in a [...]
PhoneNews.com has been able to confirm that the long-awaited MetroPCS variant of the BlackBerry Curve 8530 has been delayed from its initial July 19th launch date (today) by one week to next Monday July 26th across all sales channels. No official reason was given for the delay, but dealers have confirmed off the record that [...]
Microsoft has announced on its Windows Phone 7 blog that the operating system has reached the technical preview milestone, with the operating system reaching the necessary level of development for third-parties to begin development of applications before the launch of the operating system, now slated for October. To that end, Microsoft has begun shipping out [...]
No phone is perfect, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs at a high-profile press event last week. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) It may be true that no cell phone is perfect, but the handset world isn’t taking too kindly to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ public assertion that other smartphones suffer from the same antenna and signal [...]
