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WIKILEAKS SAYS JUST 1% OF #VAULT7 COVERT DOCUMENTS RELEASED SO FAR
The Google Android Operating System, used in 85 percent of the world's smartphones, was also exposed as having severe vulnerabilities, allowing the CIA to weaponize the devices... READ MORE›
VINTAGE WESTERN PHONE BRANDS RESURRECTED BY CHINESE PLAYERS
A closely related Chinese brand, Vivo, has muscled its way into fifth place globally... READ MORE›
CHINESE TECH FIRM TO TAKE ON LEADING GLOBAL SMARTPHONE MAKERS
Beijing-based electronics company Xiaomi says it's ready to challenge the world's smartphone market dominated by Apple, Samsung and Huawei... READ MORE›
NOKIA GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH 49 EURO PHONE
Nokia also launched four moderately priced smartphones ranging from 139 to 299 euros... READ MORE›
SAMSUNG LAUNCHES NEW TABLETS IN FLAGSHIP PHONE HIATUS
The Galaxy Tab S3 and the Galaxy Book were presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, in past years the scene of major Samsung launches... READ MORE›
TCL CARRIES FLICKERING BLACKBERRY FLAME WITH NEW PHONE LAUNCH
The new BlackBerry KEYone smartphone was unveiled here ahead of the Mobile World Congress, Europe's largest annual trade fair, on Saturday... READ MORE›
APPLE TO START INDIA MANUFACTURING IN COMING MONTHS WITH IPHONE SE
Apple to start India manufacturing in coming months with iPhone SE source... READ MORE›
HUAWEI P10 RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED FOR MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS
Huawei will showcase the P10 smartphone during Mobile World Congress in late February, the manufacturer confirmed on Twitter Monday... READ MORE›
APPLE ATTRACTS NEW IPHONE FANS AS EXISTING OWNERS AWAIT UPGRADE
Attracted a swathe of new iPhone customers over the holiday period, auguring well for a more significant upgrade to its flagship product this year... READ MORE›
APPLE WORKING HARDER TO SQUEEZE IPHONE JUICE
To compensate, Apple is tapping the iPhone in other ways... READ MORE›
APPLE STOCK SLIPS AFTER BARCLAYS DOWNGRADE AHEAD OF PROJECTED SALES SLOWDOWN
Barclays' analysts do not expect Apple to show stronger sales this year, saying investors are putting too much stock in the next iPhone expected in September... READ MORE›
APPLE SUES QUALCOMM OVER PATENT ROYALTIES IN ANTITRUST CASE
V. Qualcomm Inc., 17-108, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California San Diego ... READ MORE›
ANDY RUBIN NEARS HIS COMEBACK, COMPLETE WITH AN `ESSENTIAL' PHONE
Just over two years after leaving Google, Andy Rubin is preparing to take on the smartphone industry he helped create... READ MORE›
AMAZON'S ALEXA MOVES IN ON GOOGLE'S ANDROID SYSTEM
The Google Assistant can already field queries that Alexa cannot, said Sergei Burkov, chief executive of Alterra.ai, an artificial intelligence company... READ MORE›
HOW WEA??RE A NATION OF HYPOCRITES WHEN IT COMES TO MOBILE PHONE ETIQUETTE
They are the 21st century faux pas which irritate us all but have become a fact of life in the age of the smartphone... READ MORE›
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SURPRISED THAT SYRIAN REFUGEES HAVE SMARTPHONES? SORRY TO BREAK THIS TO YOU, BUT YOU'RE AN IDIOT
According to the CIA World Factbook in 2014 Syria had 87 mobile phones per 100 of the population, compared to Egypt's 110 per 100 the UK has 123 per 100 people ... READ MORE›
HOW APPLE LOST CHINA TO TWO UNKNOWN LOCAL SMARTPHONE MAKERS
Two years ago, Oppo and Vivo couldn't crack the top five in China's smartphone market... READ MORE›
ANTWERP NOW HAS 'TEXT LANES' FOR PEDESTRIANS WHO ARE GLUED TO THEIR MOBILE PHONES
Antwerp now has 'text lanes' for pedestrians who are glued to their mobile phones... READ MORE›
BEHIND THE PIXEL: GOOGLE'S FIRST REAL THREAT TO APPLE'S IPHONE
Now the engineers and designers from Google Glass, Chromecast and Pixel all work together... READ MORE›
2007, NOT 2016, IS THE YEAR THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
The iPhone was the first real smartphone and it changed the world because it changed the way people connected to the net... READ MORE›
JUDGE FORCES APPLE TO HELP UNLOCK SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTER IPHONE
The iPhone is owned by Farook's employer, the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, which assigned it to him... READ MORE›
BLACKBERRY TO BUY RIVAL GOOD TECHNOLOGY FOR $425 MILLION
Morgan Securities LLC and Bank of America Merrill Lynch advised Good on the deal, BlackBerry said... READ MORE›
APPLE'S CHIP CHOICES MAY LEAVE SOME IPHONE USERS IN SLOW LANE
Intel Apple is in this situation because it chose different modems for the latest iPhone... READ MORE›
CHILD SNATCHERS 'TARGET BRITISH FAMILY IN CYPRUS'
When the police turned up, they took the man and woman into an office in the hotel... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN REGULATOR OPPOSES COLLECTIVE BANK BARGAINING ON APPLE PAY
Apple charges card providers for transactions via the service, which it introduced to Australia last year... READ MORE›
ADVERTISERS TO GET A GLIMPSE OF APPLE WATCH PROMISE, CHALLENGE
At this week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, mobile-marketing firm TapSense plans to release an Apple Watch ad-buying service... READ MORE›
KDDI TO LAUNCH WORLD'S FIRST WASHABLE SMARTPHONE
A Japanese firm says it has the solution with what it describes the world's first smartphone that can be washed with soap and water... READ MORE›
16/23 CUSTOMERS WAIT IN LINE AT THE APPLE STORE IN PARIS TO GET THEIR HANDS ON THE IPHONE 6S
This at a time when Apple had either two or four bigger-screened phones for sale, the iPhone 6, 6 Plus and from last September, 6s and 6s Plus... READ MORE›
CESSPOOL EXCREMENT EXPLOSION DESTROYS CHINESE BUILDING
The incident in Zhangjiajie city, in the central province of Hunan, caused a residential building to collapse and three of the injured were taken to hospital, Xinhua said... READ MORE›
THE NEXT BIG THING IN PHONES MAY NOT BE A PHONE
Seeking to reverse declining iPhone sales, Apple announced a range of new products on Monday including including a cheaper 4-inch 10 cm screen iPhone SE... READ MORE›
APPLE TAKES OVER SAMSUNG AS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST SMARTPHONE MAKER
8m smartphones, just ahead of Samsung's 73m units, analysis firm Gartner said... READ MORE›
CAR DASHBOARDS THAT ACT LIKE SMART PHONES RAISE SAFETY ISSUES
They say outsized dashboard displays that behave more like smart phones will boost revenue and attract buyers... READ MORE›
ALIBABA PLACES CHINA SMARTPHONE BUSINESS BET WITH $590 MILLION MEIZU DEAL
As well as intense competition, Alibaba and Meizu must contend with flagging sales of smartphones, even though China is the world's largest market for the devices... READ MORE›
IPHONE 6 PLUS CAMERA FAULT DISCOVERED, FIND OUT IF YOURS IS AFFECTED HERE
Less convincing rumours suggest that Apple will be increasing the range of colours for the new iPhone even showing a 'leaked' image of a pink iPhone 6... READ MORE›
MOBILE PHONE 'SAVED MAN'S LIFE' OUTSIDE STADE DE FRANCE
Paris attacks Mobile phone 'saved man's life' outside Stade de France... READ MORE›
CHINA'S ONLINE CHATTER MUTED AHEAD OF APPLE IPHONE 7 LAUNCH
Wang, who uses both an iPhone 6S and a Huawei P9, said he plans to buy this year's new iPhone when it's released in China... READ MORE›
APPLE 'IPHONE' TRADEMARK CHALLENGED BY INDIAN FIRM WITH ITS OWN 'IFON'
Apple confronts yet another trademark issue as an Indian firm has challenged the Cupertino-based technology giant's iPhone brand... READ MORE›
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2015: SAMSUNG'S 'RELENTLESS INNOVATION' BRINGS GALAXY S6, GALAXY S6 EDGE AND GEAR VR
41 comments so far Samsung has also borrowed heavily from the iPhone by introducing an instant camera access feature... READ MORE›
SAMSUNG CRISIS BEGAN IN RUSH TO CAPITALISE ON 'UNINSPIRING' IPHONE
The company, founded in 1970 and 20 per cent owned by Samsung Electronics, makes batteries for other phone-makers too, including Apple... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA RESTRICTS ACCESS TO UNCENSORED MOBILE INTERNET
There are more than 2.5 million mobile phone subscribers in North Korea, a country of 24 million people... READ MORE›
APPLE INC. PLAN TO SELL USED IPHONES IN INDIA FACES CHALLENGE AS OFFICIALS WORRY ABOUT ELECTRONICS DUMPING
The company's bid to sell refurbished iPhones in the world's fastest-growing smartphone market may be hindered by India's government and domestic competitors... READ MORE›
JOURNALIST ROBBED ON LIVE TV IN MEXICO
The video shows the journalist speaking to the camera when a man approaches the vehicle from the driver's side and demands money and the mobile phone... READ MORE›
COMMON MOBILE SOFTWARE COULD HAVE OPENED SAN BERNARDINO SHOOTER'S IPHONE
Exclusive Common mobile software could have opened San Bernardino shooter's iPhone... READ MORE›
FBI BREAKS INTO IPHONE OF DEAD SAN BERNADINO SHOOTER
The FBI is reviewing the information on the iPhone, the Justice Department said in a statement... READ MORE›
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS UNVEILS HIGH-END PHONES IN SEARCH OF SALES BOOST
Each new version has been more popular than the last, said Justin Denison, vice president of product strategy and marketing for Samsung Electronics America... READ MORE›