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Rivals routed by Apple, Google smartphone onslaught

Farewell, Symbian, RIM?

Smartphone biz shocker: Nokia sells fewer devices than Lenovo

And Sony outshipped HTC and RIM

Softphones strangled by smartphone battery life

PC startup times also an issue, says ShoreTel

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Building a Case for Mobility

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NEC slashes 10,000 jobs – blames Thai floods, smartphone slump

NEC is set to slash 10,000 jobs including 3,000 unlucky employees from its workforce outside of Japan, after its revised forecast revealed the Japanese electronics giant would make a year end net loss of ¥100bn (£820m). The firm did not reveal exactly where in the business the jobs would go, and said the overseas cuts would be …

HTC profits PLUNGE 98%: Pins hopes on HTC One, 'Facebook mobe'

Beleaguered smartphone-maker HTC is hoping that a massive marketing drive and gathering sales momentum for its One device and the HTC First "Facebook phone" will help it recover from its disastrous Q1 outing. Sales slumped nearly 37 per cent to NT$42.8bn (£930m) - and HTC made a measly NT$85m (£1.85m) profit on that - …
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Nokia axes 4,000, shifts smartphone manufacturing East

Factories hit in cost-cutting drive

Microsoft carves out 'niche' in tablets, says numbers chap

Windows 8 battles Apple for second place
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Bill Gates: Windows Phone strategy was 'a mistake'

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates may be devoting more time to running his philanthropic foundation than to day-to-day operations in Redmond these days, but that doesn't mean he's satisfied with how things are going at the company he founded, particularly where mobility is concerned. In an interview with CBS This Morning's Charlie …
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HTC profits slump but Kim Jong Un's a fan

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC's profits slumped 91 per cent in the last quarter, but the firm received an unlikely endorsement after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was apparently seen using one of its devices. The company has spent most of 2012 fighting arch rival Apple in court and trying to streamline its operations. Its …

Lenovo considering RIM buyout to boost mobile biz

'We are looking at all opportunities'

Forget choice: 50% of firms will DEMAND you BYOD by 2017

Are we going to have to rent our own office space next?

HP still top of PC league, but trailing fourth in all-devices rankings

The slabbening of the world gathers pace

Samsung snubs slump, slurps stunning smartmobe sales

Slow down? What economic slow down?

Cisco: We're not a smartphone maker

Or a storage biz

Windows Phone 8 will be 'less than explosive' - HP bigwig

We're not getting back into phondleslabs any time soon

HTC torches forecasts as stock tsunami floods skint Europe

Eurozone meltdown as smartphones pile up in Q2

Are the PCs all getting a bit old at your office? You're not alone

Bye desktop, bye desk. Hello 'slab and a mat on the floor
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Another Chinese thing you can see from space: Lenovo's sales

PC maker Lenovo appears to drawing ever closer to its goal of seizing the global box-shifting crown from giant HP. The Chinese dragon's momentum, built up over the last few years, shows no sign of slowing. The company had to sort out some small integration issues of swallowing IBM's PC business in 2004, but after six years of …

Opinion

Joe Fay

Server boss comes to London, become hostage to fortune
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Tim Ayling

Er, what does that mean? Anything you want it to
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Eddie Pacey

Get your money up front if you want money up front

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