Many analysts and market watchers were expecting a strong Q2 earnings report from Sony Ericsson today, but the company took them by surprise, posting a net loss of some €50 million (about $70.5 million), compared with a net gain of €12 million (around $17 million) at the same time last year.
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Sony Ericsson posts surprising Q2 loss, blames Japanese earthquake
Poor RIM — everybody wants a piece of the BlackBerry pie, as the company attempts to maintain its position as the face of business-minded smartphones in an era ruled by iPhones and Android devices. It’s tough to avoid mentioning the company when looking at these shots unearthed by Italy’s Android World blog of the forthcoming LG Optimus Pro, whose form factor ought to prove comfortably familiar to BlackBerry devotees. According to the site, the Gingerbread device has a 2.8 inch screen, a three megapixel camera, an 800MHz processor, and will run €179 ($249) in that country.
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LG Optimus Pro surfaces, dressed for your next business meeting (video)
Despite having moved into the number five slot on IDC’s list of the top handset makers world wide — beating out RIM and just behind Apple — HTC has actually seen its share prices drop 19-percent since June 7th. The stock did rebound slightly following news that the company’s sales for June were a staggering 87.8-percent higher than the same time last year. Surprisingly, that’s actually a drop from May’s figures which were 116-percent higher than the same month in 2010
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HTC sales up nearly 88-percent from last year, analysts still skeptical on stock
We know what you’re thinking — you like the idea of Google Apps , but the Mountain View crew kind of creeps you out. Well, don’t worry, Microsoft has your back
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Office 365 ditches the beta tag, ready to take on Google Apps
Sprint seems to think its 4G tech would make an excellent replacement for the old-school T-1 lines many businesses have been relying on to keep them connected to the web since the 1970s.
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Sprint wants enterprise customers to consider WiMAX, ditch the T-1
Don’t look now, but there’s some major synergy going on in Japan’s e-book market, now that Sony , Panasonic , Rakuten and Kinokuniya have all joined forces on a new digital quest. Today, the quartet of companies announced they’re working on a system that would allow users to purchase and read content across their respective e-readers , injecting the e-cosmos with a heavy dose of free love and good vibes. Under the new service, customers would be able to manage their downloads and browse bestsellers within a centralized web-based marketplace, regardless of the device they go to bed with every night.
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Sony, Panasonic, others to launch cross-platform e-book service, later this year
Now that Clearwire definitely isn’t producing its own smartphone, the company has apparently decided to focus its efforts on maintaining its WiMAX network — with the help of Ericsson. Yesterday, the 4G operator announced that it had struck a seven-year deal with the Swedish telecom firm, just a few months after fighting a brief trademark lawsuit filed by Sony Ericsson. Under the arrangement, Ericsson will assume all network engineering, operations, and maintenance responsibilities, allowing Clearwire to concentrate on cutting costs and increasing efficiency.
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Ericsson to manage Clearwire’s 4G network as part of cost-cutting deal
Earlier this month, when Dish Network announced that it would be taking over Blockbuster ‘s remaining assets, we openly wondered about what the deal would mean for the thousands of (mostly) empty rental stores still scattered across the country. Shuttering all of them seemed like a very real possibility, but it now looks like Dish has plans for at least a few of Blockbuster’s old stomping grounds
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Dish Network takes over 500 Blockbuster locations for some reason
It’s still not saying anything about the lightweight EliteBook 2560p and 2760p models that leaked out last month, but HP has now gotten official with three new slightly less portable laptops: the 14-inch EliteBook 8460w, 15.6-inch 8560w and 17.3-inch 8760w. The latter is expectedly on the top end when it comes to specs, with it boasting your choice of Sandy Bridge processors up to a Core i7-2920XM, either AMD FirePro or NVIDIA Quadro graphics with up to 4GB of memory, and up to three hard drives with RAID 5 support
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HP rolls out EliteBook 8460w, 8560w and 8760w laptops for the business-minded
BusinessWeek had a chat recently with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson , and he told them that the pending merger with T-Mobile would have the intended effect of improving service and capacity on the networks for all of AT&T’s devices, including, of course, the iPhone.
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AT&T CEO promises improved service from T-Mobile deal
I’m just returning from another really great year at SxSW. It’s always fun to meet up with so many new and old friends across a few days in Austin. Beyond that, one of my favorite thing is bumping into so many entrepreneurs I’ve never met who are working on interesting problems
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Is "Stealth" the Best Way to Build Your Business?
Attention, Droid X owners and lovers. Word is that your handset of choice is getting some tasty Gingerbread as soon as next week.
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Droid X To Get Android 2.3 This Sunday?
Social CRM, as a concept, has been around for five or six years now, according to Paul Greenberg and Estaban Kolsky , two analysts interviewed on the subject by Dennis Howlett . But we’re only just now starting to understand the concept, and it may be several years before we have any real success stories in the area. Never the less, we can already learn a few lessons from the pioneers of social CRM.
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3 Lessons Learned in Social CRM
In an odd development, Oracle has attempted to pre-announce the discontinuation of Intel’s Itanium line. In a statement today, the database maker announced that, “it has decided to discontinue all software development on the Intel Itanium microprocessor in response to Intel’s clear strategic direction to focus on their x86 microprocessor and with Itanium nearing the end of its life.” That Itanium is nearing the end of its life is a surprise, given that Intel just took the wraps off of its next major Itanium microarchitecture revision, codenamed Poulson, at this past ISSCC. And Intel itself has just released a statement denying that it has any plans to can Itanium.
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Oracle: Itanium is dead. Intel: not by a long shot!
This past Friday, as the market struggled to get its collective head around the potential supply chain disruptions resulting from the Japanese megaquake and nuclear crisis , Nomura Securities released a report detailing the status of various Japanese tech companies’ facilities.
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Japan earthquake has implications for Moore’s Law, too
Security firm RSA has been the victim of an “extremely sophisticated” attack that has resulted in exfiltration of certain private information, announced Executive Chairman Art Coviello in an open letter published yesterday. The company also filed a note with the SEC, warning of possible risks due to the attack. Since 2006, RSA has been part of EMC.
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RSA says hack won’t allow "direct attack" on SecureID tokens
If you thought Verizon Wireless and Alltel’s marriage underwent a good bit of scrutiny, you’ll soon be swearing that Vimpelcom and Wind Mobile are on some sort of global watch list.
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Vimpelcom moves forward with $6 billion Wind Mobile merger, intends to hurdle regulatory snags
Socialize brings together leaders in social gaming, virtual goods, mobile, marketing, and media for two days of learning, connecting, and sharing about all things social. Experts will show you how all the social media pieces fit together to create a unified, profitable business strategy. This event delivers up-to-the-minute social media techniques, methods, and processes to teach you how to successfully enable customer-facing revenue generation strategies that tap the power of social media when you return to your office.
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Sponsor Post: Socialize: Monetizing Social Media Explores Social Gaming, Mobile, Marketing and Metrics
IDC recently conducted a survey of IT consumerization trends on behalf Unisys .
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Consumerization of IT: 95% of Information Workers Use Self-Purchased Technology for Work
It’s fun to cover independent developers. I was scheduled to see Twisted Pixel’s latest games at the Game Developers Conference, but they were having equipment issues
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Ms. Splosion Man features a sexy, sociopathic, exploding… hero?
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While the upcoming Huawei myTouch may not be the phone at their top of everyone’s want list, it did just pass through the FCC on its way to T-Mobile store shelves in the near future. The FCC filing actually provides some details surrounding/confirming the phones specs as well including a 4″ WVGA display, 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255T processor, 1GB RAM, 4GB internal storage, and a microSD card slot. Pretty much all the [read full article]
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Keep your eye on Wirefly.com tomorrow as they drop a nice little deal on the HTC One S for Memorial Day weekend. Beginning tomorrow, May 25th through May 28th, Wirefly is offering an extra $25 off their HTC One S pricing for T-Mobile. So what kind of pricing are you looking at — how about $125 for new activations and qualifying upgrade customers
Developers are uniting this weekend and putting a number of awesome Android titles on sale this weekend and if you’re a mobile gamer, you should be excited. They have a number of my own personal favorites including World of Goo, Canabalt HD, Anomaly Warzone Earth HD, Great Little War Game, Fieldrunners and more.
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We’re checking out IDC’s newest report for the first quarter of 2012 showing Google’s Android platform continuing it’s march toward global domination as its market-share climbs to 59%, with Apple a distant second at 23%.
Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann spoke this morning during his company’s investors call and said that a T-Mobile merger is still an option, though an outright sale is more than likely off the table.
Excerpt from: Autodesk Launches The Pen-And-Ink SketchBook Ink App for iPad
The rest is here: Big Apple Leads Millennial Q1 Device Ranks By Wide Margin: 28% For Brand, 15% For iPhone
On the heels of a Wall Street Journal report indicating Google is prepared to announce a variety of partnerships for their exclusive Nexus lineup of smartphones — comes news that these five devices will all arrive on November 5th. Remember, remember the fifth of November
Read more: Sonar Rolls Out “Here-Now” Mobile Social Network, Adds Status, Messaging, Notifications
Read more from the original source: The Verdict Is In: Google Did NOT Infringe On Oracle’s Patents
Some low-key news today as the T-Mobile Prism has already been available through the likes of Best Buy and Walmart since the beginning of May. Today does the mark the day however, that the Prism is available through T-Mobile owned retail stores as well T-Mobile.com. Interestingly enough, T-Mobile’s official press release back on May 2nd indicated the Prism would retail for $149.99 sans contract
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More: Target Rolls Out Shopkick Integration Nationwide
Read the original here: McAfee: Mobile Malware Explodes, Increases 1,200% In Q1 2012
See original here: 9M Users Strong, MapMyFitness Brings Check-Ins, Advanced Google Maps Integration To Fitness Tracking
Read more here: Betaworks Acquires And Relaunches Hownow, The Semi-Anonymous Hyperlocal Social Network iPhone App
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I wish I could say that you’re preparing to watch a twelve minute walk-through of a T-Mobile branded Galaxy S III, sadly that isn’t the case. Unfortunately, we’ve yet to see any of the US branded handsets appear in the wild but, this video courtesy of Tech65.com is a great 12 minute walk-through showing off plenty of Samsung’s flagship smartphone features. At the very least, you’ll have something to do for 12 minutes ..
Original post: Clueful Scans The Apps On Your iPhone, Tells You Which Ones Are Doing Naughty Things With Your Data
Read more: Appcelerator Partners With Geoloqi To Bring Location Services To Its 1.6 Million Developers
Read the rest here: Forget Those Scraps Of Paper, SnipSnap Lets You Save And Share Coupons From Your iPhone
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