Idea Cellular Ltd. Thursday posted a more than 32% drop in its first-quarter consolidated net profit, hurt by the cost of debt it took to acquire new radio bandwidth and intense competition in India’s crowded market for mobile telephony services. Net profit fell to INR2.01 billion in April-June from INR2.97 billion a year earlier. Revenue [...]
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits the company has made mistakes on privacy, and says he’s “quite sure” he didn’t sign a contract giving a former Web designer ownership of the company. Zuckerberg, 26, talked about being at the helm of a burgeoning company, making mistakes, and issues facing the wildly popular social network [...]
Nokia reported flat sales for the second quarter, with a 40 percent year-on-year drop in earnings. The company is still seeing customers shun its high-end smartphones. Sales for the quarter totalled €10 billion (US$12.21 billion as of June 30, the last day of the period reported), up less than 1 percent on a year earlier, [...]
Until early June, AT&T had an online tool that helped iPad 3G owners sign up for its mobile Wi-Fi service: Users typed in the 19-digit serial number for their iPad’s micro-SIM card, also known as the ICC-ID (integrated circuit card identifier), and the site returned the e-mail address that the owner had used to verify [...]
Apple is one of 36 companies being sued for spam email filtering. InNova claims they invented the technology first. InNova filed for a lawsuit against a number of well known technology firms including Apple, Google, Dell and Yahoo, claiming the companies have been using their spam filtering invention without permission for years. The InNova patent [...]
Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations (Credit: Apple) Apple has updated the executive biography of Jeff Williams from vice president of operations to senior vice president of operations, explaining that the decade-plus veteran of the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is “responsible for end-to-end supply chain management and dedicated to ensuring that Apple products meet [...]
If you know what this is and where it is located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET) A word can have multiple meanings. Fortunately for you, “House” doesn’t have many. If you know what this is and where it’s located, you could win [...]
Nokia reported Thursday a 40 percent drop in second-quarter earnings. The Finland-based mobile phone maker took home a profit of 227 million euros ($291 million), down from the 380 million euros a year earlier. Sales for the quarter that ended June 30 were virtually flat, inching up 1 percent to 10 billion euros from 9.9 [...]
Not long after the launch of the Droid X and the concern over the locked bootloader preventing the possibility of rooting and custom ROMs, the first confirmed root for the device is now available in a 12 step process. The process is not for recommended for novices but is expected to be further refined. Buy [...]
Dell has opened up a pre-order pager for the forthcoming Android-powered Streak smartphone/tablet hybrid, now slated to launch at the end of the month according to the product page. The Streak features a 5 inch wide 800×480 capacitive touchscreen display running Android 1.5 with a custom overlay along with a 5.0 megapixel main camera, front-mounted [...]
