While the voice over LTE, more commonly known as VoLTE, is seen as the future of mobile phone calls, the new technology may not be well received by consumers. According to a new report from Spirent Communications, VoLTE can reduce a smartphone’s talk-time battery life in half. The research firm came to a conclusion : “The significant difference in current...
The high-speed 4G LTE networks are already showing impressive development (as well as demand), and it is most certain that they are the future of mobile data transfer in the United States as well as all around the world. The Yankee Group analyzed that by the end of 2012 there will be 152 commercial LTE networks across 65 countries. The...
Tablet sales in China are growing fast. Analyses show that currently Apple’s iPad holds the lion’s share of sales in the world’s most populous nation. New data from Analysis International highlighted by Reuters this week reveals that a total of 2.6 million tablets were sold in China last quarter, and of those Apple accounted for 71.4 %. Apple’s share was...
The rivalry between the two e-giants Apple and Samsung is not all about law suits and disputes, or the severe competition for market share and profits. They are also business partners. Samsung provides a variety of components to Apple, many of these used in the Apple’s own mobile devices. Recently there was a speculation that Samsung was to increase the...
The patent wars between Apple, Samsung and HTC are truly a ‘clash of titans’. Negotiations have failed, claims have been filed with courts, scandalous trials have occupied top place in the world news for weeks, monstrous penalties and compensations have been paid … And as one case closes, there flames up another. Concerning the HTC – Apple global patent settlement...
Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal of the US District Court of the Northern District of California found a fair way to deal with the claims of the two e-giants over found violations in the smartphone patent suit concluded in August. Following (perhaps) the wisdom the ancient king Solomon, he ordered Samsung to pay $21,554 in legal fees to Apple, and Apple...
Time for reports and counting profits. Qualcomm is yet another of the big-business companies that has posted its FQ4 and FY2012 results. For the quarter, the popular chip maker hit record revenues of $4.87 billion, up 18-percent year-over-year. Net income rose by 20-percent (again year-over-year) to $1.27 billion. Looking at the picture for the whole year, earnings are just as...
PC maker Lenovo has reported its earnings for Q2, and the results are impressive: $8.7 billion in sales, a record high, a PC market share of 15.6 percent, it’s largest ever and operating profit of $206 million, 24 percent higher than the same period last year. Even if profit growth is a bit slower than previous quarters, mostly due to...
