In a market where the competition has been cutting subscribers' monthly data amounts, in Australia Vodafone is doing the opposite; a new promotion gives users twice the amount of data that they have contracted for. The operator's CMO, Kim Clarke, succinctly sums up the situation."We have increased our data allowances this year while the others have sat on their hands or gone backwards"...
There have been continuous reports for the past couple months that Apple was facing production shortages on a couple of its new flagship devices. Both the iPhone 5s and the iPad mini Retina have been having production issues that cut into supplies; but, a new report from The Wall Street Journal is saying that Apple is finally fighting back to combat those shortages...
While MediaTek has a reputation as the chip used in entry-level smartphones by manufacturers, the company did gain some notoriety earlier this year by developing the first true octa-core processor; according to industry sources, the silicon slinger usually spends 20% of its annual revenue on R&D. That would mean that for this year the figure will reach NT$26 billion ($884 million USD) and rise to NT$30 billion ($1.02 billion USD) in 2014...
BlackBerry has lost money in five of its last seven quarters; last year, the company lost $646 million. Last quarter alone, operating losses totaled nearly $1 billion mostly because of a massive $930 million to $960 million write-down of BlackBerry Z10 inventory. But all of this red ink is not necessarily bad for the Canadian based company...
The latest monthly report from comScore has been released and it shows that based on the average monthly figures for the third quarter, iOS and Windows Phone snatched up the market share lost by Android and BlackBerry; the report shows that for the third quarter, iOS was running 40.6% of smartphones in the U.S. That was up from the 39.9% average monthly market share scored by Apple's mobile OS in the second quarter...
On November 22nd, the U.S. will be remembering the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK; but for others, the date represents the launch of a couple of new Nokia devices in the states. According to the leaked screenshot of an inventory page, the Nokia Lumia 1520 phablet on AT&T and the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet for AT&T and Verizon, will hit the market on Friday November 22nd...
