Brevity is the soul of… oh, I’ve no time for sayings. Twitter has acquired Vine, an app that lets you shoot and publish six-second looping videos, and has launched its iOS app today. Available to download right this minute, the app is impressively simple to use. Hold your finger on your phone’s screen kicks off …
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24 January
Samsung, Apple dominate as 700M smartphones ship in 2012
A record 700 million smartphones shipped last year, with Samsung and Apple together accounting for half the market, according to new research released today. While global smartphone shipments increased 490.5 million units over 2011, the 43 percent growth rate slowed in comparison to 2011’s growth rate of 64 percent over 2010, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics. The research blamed …
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24 January
AT&T narrows Q4 loss to $3.9B, sells 8.6M iPhones
AT&T posted a narrower fourth-quarter loss, which was again weighed down by a change in the valuation of its employee pension plan. Reporting results today, the company, however, added 780,000 contract subscribers in the period, and sold a record 10.2 million smartphones, of which 8.6 million were iPhones. AT&T posted a loss of $3.9 billion, or 68 cents a share, …
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24 January
Five things to know as you get started with Vine
Now playing: Watch this: Get started with Vine 4:10 Screenshot by Sharon Vaknin/CNET As a social network built on keeping things short and sweet, it’s no surprise that Twitter released today a secondary app that lets users (Twitter and otherwise) shoot and upload 6-second videos. Of course, no later than a few hours after its launch, Vine was already being …
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24 January
Nokia ships a third as many smart phones as it did a year ago
Nokia shipped just a third as many smart phones in the last three months of 2012 as it did in the same period a year before — a meagre 6.6 million mobiles, compared to 19.6 million in the last three months of 2011. The wince-inducing decline was revealed as part of Nokia’s quarterly earnings report (PDF link). While our favourite …
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24 January
ITC decides to review Apple complaint against Samsung
The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) decided yesterday to review a ruling made by an administrative law judge in the ongoing patent-infringement saga between Apple and Samsung. Judge Thomas Pender in October ruled that Samsung had violated one of Apple’s iPhone design patents, as well as three software feature patents, in some of its mobile products. Two other patents brought …
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24 January
Nokia ‘EOS’ PureView Windows Phone in hot rumour action
Nokia’s next top mobile will be a proper PureView — a Windows Phone with all the impressive camera gubbins of the ludicrous Nokia 808, according to the Verge. Codenamed ‘EOS’ — surely a nod to Canon’s range of high-end dSLR cameras, and I wonder how the Japanese company will feel about that — the new PureView will have a “similar …
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24 January
Nokia shows signs of life, but North America market still a blip
Nokia’s got a pulse again, but it will take a lot more juice to fully jolt the company back to life. The Finnish mobile device maker today reported its fourth-quarter results, and the signs are encouraging. After several quarters of losses, the company returned to profitability. Its Lumia smartphone brand, which features the Windows Phone operating system, appears to be …
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24 January
Intel’s Yolo low
Safaricom today announced a smartphone based an Intel design — part of the chipmaker’s effort to enter the global low-cost phone market. The Yolo smartphone is aimed “cost-conscious…first-time buyers” in Kenya, said Intel, which is responsible for both the core electronics and phone’s design. Related stories Xolo X900: Meet Intel’s first smartphone That design was announced at CES 2013. Inside …
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24 January
Dear HTC, here’s how you can become popular again
commentary Dear HTC, I have been a fan of your hardware since my time with the T-Mobile MDA back in 2007. When you became the first company to produce an Android smartphone (T-Mobile G1), I upgraded my loyalty status to “die-hard” and enjoyed releases such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G, HTC Hero, and HTC Evo 4G. With relatively few companies …
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