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Sharp posts $1.4 billion extraordinary loss, refocuses on mobile displays
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Sharp has reported an extraordinary loss of 117.1 billion yen ($1.4 billion) for the financial year ending March 2012. The company has cited restructuring costs and inventory losses as the causes for the write-down, but also projected that its TV business would lose a further 18.7 percent of its projected sales in the current year. The company has decided to convert some of its big-screen LCD production lines into mobile LCDs as it tries to reassert its dwindling display business. It's yet more bad news after the company sold part of its LCD manufacturing business to Hon Hai, Sony withdrew from a joint venture and refused to deal with Sharp in the future, plus an 86 percent collapse in profi...
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Samsung unpacks the Galaxy tomorrow, we'll be liveblogging the London event right here!
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Is that Galaxy S II feeling a bit stale? It's just about time for Samsung to name a successor to the massively popular smartphone, live at the company's Mobile Unpacked event at the Earls Court Olympic venue. We'll surely see a brand new mainstream handset make its debut, but what's not quite as clear is what other gadgets Samsung plans to show off in London. With defined divisions, the Korean device maker's "Mobile Unpacked" event title implies that Android phones will steal the show, so it's unlikely that we'll see an updated Tab or two. We have 24 hours and change to find out for sure, however, so bookmark this page to stay abreast of the news as it happens in our liveblog. The show kicks...
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Huawei Prism Joins T-Mobile's Entry-Level Offerings
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T-Mobile USA today announced the Huawei Prism, a new Android 2.3 Gingerbread smartphone that will be available starting May 6. The Prism features a 3.5-inch HVGA display, 3.2-megapixel camera with video capture, and compatibility with Google's services. It has a microSD card slot that supports cards up to 32GB, though it will be boxed with a 2GB card. The device has a Qualcomm processor at 600MHz, and ROM and RAM of 512MB each. It supports aGPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and has an FM radio. The T-Mobile Prism is expected to be available at Best Buy starting May 6, at Walmart starting May 9, and available through most other channels by May 23. The Prism will cost $19.99 after a $50 rebate with a two...
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Facebook IPO set for May 18th
Like UnlikeSocial networking giant Facebook is reportedly set to make its initial public offering on May 18th, a day later than earlier reports had claimed. Company co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and chief financial officer David Ebersman will take part in a roadshow beginning on Monday that will see the company host a number of meetings to pitch its stock to investors, The Wall Street Journal reports. An offering will then be made on May 18th, the report claims. Facebook’s IPO could raise a much as $10 billion and value the company at as much as $100 billion, making it the largest Internet IPO in history. Google’s 2004 offering currently...
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HTC Sensation 4G price drops to zero on T-Mobile
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HTC’s last year flagship, the Sensation 4G, has just dropped in price to the sweet zero on T-Mobile, and it seems like now is the best time to get a high-end handset that can still take a beating in today’s smartphone market for very little. TMo is offering the Sensation 4G for free on a limited time offer that kicked off this week.
And here’s what you get for your zero dollars and a two-year contract tie: a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, a 4.3-inch qHD display, a capable 8-megapixel camera and connection to T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ network.
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Barnes & Noble CEO says NFC coming to the Nook
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Barnes & Noble has been doing very well its Nook line of the readers. The company CEO, William Lynch, is talking about the future of the Nook and giving hints about what we might see in the future for the line. One of the things that he says is coming to the company the rear term is NFC technology.
Lynch says that NFC chips will start showing up “soon” in the Nook line of readers. Recently Barnes & Noble and Microsoft announced a partnership that will have Microsoft investing at least $605 million in a new subsidiary that includes Barnes & Noble’s Nook reader and its college textbook business. Lynch talked about the future the business with Forbes recently.
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Mozilla to standardize Firefox UI across all platforms
Like UnlikeFirefox is a great browser on both traditional desktops and mobile devices, however the experience isn’t exactly consistent between devices. In an effort to achieve continuity in the user experience, Mozilla has announced that it is working on a standard that will give Firefox a similar look and feel no matter where you are using it, whether it is a computer, a tablet, or a smartphone.
Mozilla says it is looking to take a “soft, friendly, and human” design approach. The design standard is called Australis and features a clean, minimalistic design with a lot of curved edges. The new UI will still sport platform specific features such as the ability to swipe in a certain direction to open a pa...
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Samsung's Q1 2012 profits nearly double year-over-year on higher margins for TVs and phones
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The numbers for Samsung's first quarter of 2012 are in and as it expected they are up sharply over the same period from 2011. After predicting profits of 5.8 trillion won it managed to top that, notching an operating profit of 5.85 trillion won ($5.16 billion US) for the quarter, a 98 percent gain over a year ago. Phones accounted for 73 percent of the profit, contributing 4.27 trillion won to the bottom line. As the world awaits the debut of what we assume will be the Samsung Galaxy S III May 3rd powered by its Exynos 4 Quad CPU, there's clearly no shortage of demand for the Galaxy S II and Note. Sales of chips and TVs decreased from last quarter, but like its competitor LG, growing sales o...
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Google Docs explodes with new fonts
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This week the developers behind Google Docs have presented their newest update to their web-based environment for document editing: fonts galore! This update will allow web fonts in Google documents, one whole heck of a lot of them, each of them working to allow you fabulous looks for your documents both online and offline in print form. There are over 450 fonts available in Google docs now, with additional features coming up quick!
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Microsoft Research to open new lab in New York City with former Yahoo staff
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Microsoft revealed today that it plans to open a new research lab in the heart of New York City. Based in Manhattan, the lab will focus on a variety of research including computational and experimental social science, algorithmic economics, and machine learning. An initial team of 15 researchers will assemble in New York where it's expected they will develop new research techniques and be involved in the startup and hack / make communities.
Three key founding members used to work at Yahoo research, and Microsoft appears to have hired as many as 14 of its 15 researchers from Yahoo, following layoffs at the organization recently. A Microsoft Research lab might be new to New York City, but the ...
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Euro privacy police: Google duped us on Wi-Fi snooping
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European privacy regulators now contend that Google was far less cooperative with them than they had believed during their investigation of the search giant's Wi-Fi capturing scandal. Ars Technica reports that regulators claim they feel as though Google misled them, revealing only as much about the company's culpability as they felt hard evidence required.
Spokespersons for the Hamburg Data Protection Authority, which has headed up an audit of Google's liability in the scandal, contend that Google was not as forthcoming as they could have been with pertinent evidence. Other regulators have related similar concerns to The New York Times, casting doubt on Google's original contention that the ...
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Google's SPDY replacement for HTTP loads webpages 23 percent faster
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Google is looking to the future of the web and the optimization of the HTTP system that powers almost all of our browsing with the introduction of SPDY (pronounced "speedy"), a web protocol designed to make your webpages load even faster. To prove just how much quicker it is for mobile users, Google has created a test that pitches SPDY against basic HTTP on a Galaxy Nexus running Chrome for Android, loading 77 pages from multiple popular websites and comparing the load times when SPDY is enabled. In practice, it found that SPDY made sites load 23 percent faster on average.
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Kickstarter reveals $200m raised by 2m backers
Like UnlikeKickstarter has brought a whole host of products, accessories, and ventures thanks to crowdsourcing funds. The company recently sat down at the Wired Business Conference and announced that it has seen around 2 million backers, with 22,000 projects funded and $200 million pledged so far. Kickstarter takes a 5% commission on all projects, so it looks like the company has managed to acquire $10 million in around three years.
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Microsoft: We’ll hold Motorola accountable for “broken promise”
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Microsoft has fired back at Motorola over its German injunction against Windows 7 and the Xbox 360, accusing its rival of a “broken promise” around fair and reasonable patent licensing. Motorola won an injunction against the Microsoft products – as well as Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player – in Germany this morning, over supposed infringement of patents essential to H.264. However, as Microsoft is quick to point out, “Motorola is prohibited from acting on today’s decision.”
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First Drive-By Malware Sites Discovered for Android
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As more and more traffic moves from the desktop to mobile devices, malware has closely followed it. Now, an Internet security firm has discovered the first websites designed specifically to infect Android devices that visit the page with malware.
Lookout Mobile Security discovered the sites, which operate as drive-by malware vectors. That is, if an Android device that isn't fully patched visits one of these sites, malware will automatically and invisibly install itself on the device.
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