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Samsung Electronics overtook Apple again as the biggest smartphone seller in the global market in the first quarter this year. The two firms have played musical chairs with the top position since last year. Business magazine Forbes on Monday quoted a market report released by Canaccord Genuity investment banking saying Samsung was on top with [...]

An inspection of Foxconn Technology Group found “serious and pressing” violations of Chinese labor laws, prompting the biggest maker of Apple Inc. devices to pledge to cut working hours and give employees more oversight. Inspectors found at least 50 breaches of Chinese regulations as well as the code of conduct Apple signed when it joined [...]

Google takes a unique approach for cooling its Douglas County Data Center. It uses recycled waste water for 100% of its cooling needs. It enables Google to decrease energy consumption to a maximum extent.  

Case 1 Samsung Electronics got a reprieve from Apple's legal onslaught in Germany on Friday, as a court in Mannheim suspended a case about Apple's slide-to-unlock feature because of questions regarding related intellectual property protection. The district court in Mannheim stayed proceedings until the German Patent and Trade Mark Office makes a decision regarding the [...]

  BOSTON, Mar 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Existing smartphone owners in the US and UK seek larger mobile phone displays, compared to displays on their current phone. The Strategy Analytics Wireless Device Lab report, "Smartphone Owners Want Thin Devices with Larger Displays," found that surveyed smartphone respondents prefer device screens in the 4.0-inch to [...]

  Nokia will close down Nokia Money, a financial service it runs in India, as it continues to narrow its focus on its phone business and location-based services. “The mobile financial services business is not core to Nokia so we plan to exit the business,” said a spokesman for the company. After regional launches Nokia [...]

Google is forcing Android application developers to use Google Wallet for payments instead of third party services like Paypal.  The application developers are being barred from using third-party payment systems in their software. As Google mandates the use of its own Google Wallet service for in-application purchases, software that doesn't comply with the new rule [...]

  Our mission with Ubuntu is to deliver, in the cleanest, most economical and most reliable form, all the goodness that engineers love about free software to the widest possible audience (including engineers  ). We’ve known for a long time that free software is beautiful on the inside – efficient, accurate, flexible, modifiable. For the past [...]

Facebook was unavailable for a number of users mostly across Europe on Wednesday due to technical difficulties. Users reported problems accessing Facebook.com in many countries, including the UK and Ireland, for about two hours. The social network's smartphone and tablet apps were also affected, users on Twitter reported. Facebook apologised for the incident and said the [...]