Lenovo Smartphone Profits Up (video)

Video - Lenovo Smartphone Profits Jump in Second Quarter - WSJ.com: "Can Lenovo Beat Apple and Samsung with Motorola? Lenovo’s smartphone market share jumped in the second quarter as it sold more handsets in emerging markets. The Wall Street Journal’s Yun-Hee Kim speaks to IDC Analyst Bryan Ma about whether it can take on Apple and Samsung."

Sprint Dives Into Wireless Industry's Price War - WSJ: "Sprint Corp. dived into the wireless industry's price war Monday, saying it would offer new data-heavy family plans for $100 and pay up to $350 when subscribers switch from rivals."


Wall Street Journal
As Google Builds Out Own Content, Some Advertisers Feel Pushed Aside
Wall Street Journal
....Google has said its shifts are motivated in part by users' shift to mobile devices from personal computers. Google's revenue from search ads on PCs fell last year for the first time, researcher eMarketer Inc. estimates. On the smaller screen of a smartphone, users spend more time in apps and less time browsing the Web that Google has organized and monetized via search-related advertising. ...
Google: The $400 Billion Epistle - Wall Street Journal


Wall Street Journal
Apple's New iPhone Could Crack GT's Stock
Wall Street Journal
GT is building a manufacturing facility in Arizona in partnership with Apple to produce sapphire material for the iconic company's devices. The next ...


WJLA
Facebook Messenger: Is the paranoia justified? Five biggest myths busted
WJLA
NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook's recent effort to force people to adopt its standalone mobile messaging app has privacy-concerned users up in arms.


Business Insider Australia
What Facebook doesn't show you
Washington Post
So I went through my whole Facebook network – all of my 403 friends and the ... (think SEO for Google), and publishers invest enormous amounts of energy into ... Throughout my day on Facebook, I didn't see a single story from The ...


Forbes
The Moto 360 And Apple iWatch Will Kickoff The Smart Watch Wars Soon
Forbes
Motorola's Moto 360, the first round-face Android Wear smart watch, is coming next month and we could see our first glimpse of Apple's Apple's ...


PCR-online.biz
Apple plans reversible USB cable for iPhone 6, leaker says
CNET
The company's Lightning connector is already reversible on the eight-pin dock side, butApple might start offering a reversible connector on the other ...


Gigaom
Roku TVs marry cheap prices, proven smarts (hands-on)
CNET
The Roku TVs introduced at CES in January are now available for preorder. In addition to offering our favorite streaming platform built right into the TVs, the initial wave of models is priced even lower than mainstays like Vizio. by David Katzmaier.


Financialbuzz.com
China's first private rocket firm aims for market
Space Daily
Hu Zhenyu, 21, founder of Link Space, China's first private rocket firm, does not want people to call him a "rocket scientist" but a rocket entrepreneur. Rocket launches have traditionally been been a state monopoly in China, but the young graduate from South ...


Firstpost
AMD Announces Radeon R7 Series Solid-State Drives
Techgage
Talk about unexpected. At a time when fabless SSD manufacturers are consolidating or being snapped up by companies with in-house NAND production, AMD is bucking the industry trend by announcing the launch of the Radeon R7 SSD family.


SFGate
Amazon's first Fire phone update tackles its big interface problems
Engadget
Generally speaking, Amazon's Fire phone hasn't had the warmest of receptions, and the online retailer is looking to improve things with its first major update for the device. To start with, the flagship smartphone from Amazon is finally capable of multitasking, ...

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Wireless - Big Price Disruptions (video)

Wireless - Big Price Disruptions: Video - Bloomberg: Bloomberg Industries senior telecommunications analyst John Butler tells us why China is where the action is in 2014 for the wireless industry.

Apple, Facebook, Google call for government surveillance reform - latimes.com: "In an open letter to Washington, eight major technology companies are calling for sweeping changes in the way the U.S. government collects information on citizens. The letter was signed by AOL Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc., Google Inc., LinkedIn Corp., Microsoft Corp., Twitter Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. In documents leaked by former defense contractor Edward Snowden, most of these companies have been listed as being among the targets where the U.S. government is extracting digital information as part of a massive surveillance effort..."

Apple's iPhone 5s' Lead-time Decreased To 1-3 Days With iPad Air's ...

Forbes
I have been tracking Apple Apple's iPhones and iPads lead-times since they were launched (a Google Doc with the information is available via these two links: ...

Highlight Press

Google promises better deals at its shopping fest

Times of India
NEW DELHI: Google will kick off its second Great Online Shopping Festival ... Websites like Flipkart, Myntra, IndiaTimes Shopping, AmazonIndia, Jabong and ...

Times of India

Google, Facebook, Amazon blast ex-NFL cheerleader's defamation ...

Syracuse.com
CINCINNATI (AP) -- From Twitter and Facebook to Amazon and Google, the ... 19 by lawyers for Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Amazon, Gawker and ...

Daily Mail

Before Amazon's Drones Come the Robots

Wall Street Journal
Amazon's rollout of robots from a company it bought last year, Kiva Systems Inc., could help pare 20% to 40% off the $3.50 to $3.75 cost of fulfilling a typical ...

Apple's Antitrust Inquisitor

Wall Street Journal
Unlike Amazon, Apple let book publishers set their own prices. ... Other high-tech companies lobbied for the antitrust case against Microsoft. Amazon's ...

Google catches French govt spoofing its domain certificates

ZDNet
Google states on its own security blog that an intermediate certificate authority ... Google states that the certificate was used in a commercial device, on a private ...

Microsoft's Apple Investment: The Worst Deal of Them All?

Businessweek
Steve Jobs stands at a podium as Bill Gates appears on a video screen as he addresses the MacWorld convention praising the new alliance between Apple and ...

Amazon, Postal Service may want to think about a merger

Chicago Daily Herald
The partnership of a floundering, old-world institution and perhaps the nation's most future-oriented tech company — Amazon's strategy is to take losses today in ...

NewsNet5.com

Google's Barge Glides by Where Others Hit SF Snags

RealClearPolitics
Suckers. Google simply started building a four-story barge made of stacked shipping containers flanked by giant white sails on a Treasure Island pier. No hoops.

Town Hall

Cellphone firms regularly give data to law enforcement
Boston Globe
WASHINGTON — The nation's largest wireless companies regularly give state and local law enforcement authorities thousands of records of cellphone calls and customer locations gleaned from cellphone towers, part of a dramatic expansion of domestic ...

NASA Curiosity rover discovers evidence of fresh-water Mars lake
Washington Post
NASA's steady reconnaissance of Mars with the Curiosity rover has produced another major discovery: evidence of an ancient lake with water so low in salinity and so neutral in acidity that it could plausibly be described as drinkable. Scientists have known ...

LTE Speeds, Capacity Improve In Big Cities
InformationWeek
Wireless carriers upgrade infrastructure to make sure their LTE 4G networks offer the speeds and throughput they advertise. 10 Best Tablets Of 2013. (click image for larger view). Smartphone and tablet owners in major cities across the country should notice ...

Report: NSA Spying on Virtual Worlds, Online Games
ABC News
American and British intelligence has been spying on gamers across the world, media outlets reported, saying that the world's most powerful espionage agencies packed virtual universes full of undercover agents and surreptitiously monitored traffic across ...

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