Sarah Tew/CNET Mobile ad spending will grow faster than any other ad channel in the US this year — up as much as 83 percent to reach $17.7 billion — as more people spend more time on smartphones and tablets , according to eMarketer. While advertising on mobile devices remains a small piece of total …
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T-Mobile CEO John Legere Lori Grunin/CNET John Legere, T-Mobile’s chief executive, again called out the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday, claiming the agency was “sensationalizing” its claims against the cell phone carrier. The FTC filed a complaint Tuesday against the company, alleging T-Mobile has made hundreds of millions of dollars on fees from “premium” text messages that customers didn’t request. …
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A Samsung Galaxy S5 and an Apple iPhone 5S. CNET Samsung is still leading the smartphone pack in sales, but Apple may be gaining on it. Worldwide sales of Apple iPhone models will grow 12 percent year over year to 35 million units in the second quarter, Evercore analyst Rob Cihra predicted in a research note Wednesday. That’s up 2 …
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CNET Adding to this week’s iPhone 6 speculation, a new video shows what may be a new display for Apple’s next generation of smartphone. The video, produced by Chinese site ifanr and posted on 9to5Mac, comes just days after 9to5Mac posted leaked photos of white and black covers with tapering edges for the rumored 4.7-inch iPhone. The new video compares …
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The Nvidia Shield gaming device. Josh Miller/CNET Evidence continues to pile up that graphics chipmaker Nvidia may be working on the next iteration of its Shield gaming device, though specifics about such a gadget have been more elusive. After reports in recent weeks pointed out Federal Communications Commission paperwork and a Web page on Nvidia’s own TegraZone site, The Verge …
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An example of Facebook’s “missed call” advertising in India. Facebook Facebook is testing out a novel type of advertising in India: the “missed call” ad. The social-networking company helmed by Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that its employees have been researching cell-phone usage in countries including India, Brazil, and Indonesia, to find out how people connect on their devices. Facebook said …
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Sharp Sharp President Kozo Takahashi said his struggling consumer-electronics company isn’t considering another public sale of its stock to bolster its weakened finances, noting that such a move “would not make sense.” Takahashi, speaking to a round table of reporters Tuesday, said Sharp would instead focus on increasing its profits, Reuters reported, dismissing an earlier report from a Japanese newspaper …
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The Galaxy Core 2 has mid-range specs. Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics bolstered its Galaxy line of smartphones with four new devices, providing some lower-tier options for people looking to avoid the high price tag of its flagship Galaxy S5 . The tech giant on Monday unveiled the Galaxy Core 2, Galaxy Star 2, Galaxy Ace 4 (called the Galaxy Trend …
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Jeremy Bachrach, far right, with his friends and little brother outside The Oaks mall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., the night before the original iPhone launch. Courtesy of Jeremy Bachrach Seven years ago, Jeremy Bachrach, then a 17-year-old high school student, waited in line outside a mall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., with his 12-year-old brother Harry. They’d been there for more …
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The Nexus 5. Josh Miller/CNET Google is putting to rest any speculation that it would be killing off its Nexus line of smartphones and tablets and replace them with a new program called “Android Silver.” “People just get excited by concepts and forget why we do things,” Google executive Dave Burke told ReadWrite. “We are still invested in Nexus.” He …
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