Month: March 2013

China market: Household appliance vendors joining competition for smartphones While China-based handset vendors ZTE, Huawei Device, Coolpad and Lenovo have been dominating the smartphone procurement projects released by mobile telecom carriers in China, a number of local household appliance vendors including TCL, Hisense, Konka, Changhong,...

GSM phones vulnerable to hijack scams: researcher Flaws in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones and instruct them to send text messages or make calls, according to an expert on mobile phone security. They could use the...

Apple ‘Scorched Earth’ Legal Strategy May Undervalue Its Patents Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., told his biographer that he’d rather wage “thermonuclear war” with Google Inc. than make deals to share its technology with the maker of the Android operating system. That was...

China market: Handset makers form alliance to counter possible patent infringement lawsuits A number of handset makers in China, including Lenovo, ZTE, TCL, Coolpad and Konka, has formed an alliance in preparation to counter possible patent infringement lawsuits to bring upon by international players, according...

Apple’s iPad 3 Coming in Two Models in 2012: Rumor Apple will unveil two iPad models at a conference in January, according to Taiwanese publication DigiTimes. “Apple is set to unveil its next-generation iPad—which will come in two versions—at the [MacWorld/iWorld expo] scheduled for January...