Articles tagged "Other"

Back in the second half of 2017, Samsung started posting record after record in its quarterly financial reports, mostly due to the high demand for memory chips. According to latest information, acquired by Reuters, the Korean manufacturer is...

HTC published its financial results for January, and they do not look promising. Compared with December 2017, revenue sank 15.3%, while the fall on a yearly basis was even bigger - 27%. The consolidated income of NT$3.403 billion (or $116.12...

Lloyds Banking Group which owns Halifax, Bank of Scotland, MBNA and Lloyds will block Bitcoin purchases with their credit cards. The restriction is applied because the financial institutions worry that their customers might borrow cash to invest in...

LeEco was having financial troubles recently and the company even withdrew from acquiring Vizio earlier in 2017. Today the company secured an investment worth CNY15,04 billion (more than $2.2 billion) from property developer Sunac China Holdings....

Synaptics announced optical fingerprint sensor back at the end of 2016. An updated version was unveiled today that in theory reads the fingerprint when placed under the OLED. The company also shared that a “Tier 1” manufacturer will introduce the...

Amazon might be the biggest online retailer, but the company wants to be even more influential, launching a set of AI products. The subsidiary Amazon Web Services introduced a $250 AI camera called DeepLens, a new platform named SageMaker for...

MediaTek makes a step into the IoT world with its latest chip announcement. The MT2621 SoC is built to enable extended coverage, cross-market application with network transition function and phone calls. This means devices like smart trackers,...

Asia Optical and Coreophotonics are developing a 5x optical zoom lens for use in smartphones. The certification process will start by the end of this year while shipments to manufacturers are expected to begin in Q3 2018. The lens will...

HTC published its monthly financial report for October, when revenue stood at NT$6.06 billion ($200 million). That is is 6.8% down from September when it was NT$6.51 bn ($215 million). Year-over-year the decrease is the staggering 25.8%. The...

Sony posted its financial results for the July-September period, and they look promising. The latest update shows the Japanese company raked in JPY2 trillion (about $18.25 billion) in revenue and managed to get a net profit of $1.15 billion. The...

China overtook the US to become the biggest smartphone market in 2013, and now India is taking away second place from it. Canalys reported today that total smartphone shipments in India reached 40 million units in Q3, 46.5% of them accounted to...

Back in 2013 Apple was found guilty of infringing VirnetX patents and had to pay $368 million. The company didn’t repurchase the license then, so VirnetX struck with another case. Today the US Court ruled that Apple has to pay almost $440 million...

Counterpoint published some interesting numbers about daily smartphone usage and mobile technology attitude. According to the researchers, half of smartphone users spend more than 5 hours a day on their mobile devices, with 26% of all owners...

Three months ago Samsung posted record-breaking finacial results; now the Korean company is heading to an even more successful quarter. The preliminary guidance shows sales around KRW61-63 trillion ($55 billion) and the operating profit is expected...

HTC has announced that it saw consolidated revenue for September 2017 of NT$6.51 bn (US$215 million). This represents more than double the revenue for August 2017 of NT$3,00 bn. It would be a safe guess to say that revenues have likely been...

Samsung is developing an “environmental sensor”, according to the Patent Office of South Korea. Looking at the graphics in the document, the sensor most likely will detect the amount of particles along with the change of resistance and will provide...

Q3 2017 just ended and the time for financial reports has come. LG Electronics published its preliminary data for the July-September period. The Korean company expects sales of KRW15.2 trillion (around $13.3 billion), while the operating income is...

Huawei’s portfolio of mobile products includes a 360-degree camera named CV60 that was limited only to China until today. The Chinese manufacturer finally brought the gadget to Hungary, meaning it is starting its European rollout. Huawei...

Web traffic analysts DeviceAtlas compiled an extensive report on the smartphone usage in Q2 2017. According to the company, Snapdragon 410 chipset is the most popular, just head of the A7 & A9 duo by Apple. The company also posted numbers about RAM,...

Samsung announced new Bluetooth headphones on its website. They are called U Flex and can bend by 100 degrees. They come with a dedicated Bixby button. If your phone supports S Voice, it will work perfectly fine too. The earphones have...