Posts Categorized: Mobile


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Opera Presents The State of Android in India (INFOGRAPHIC)

Opera Software has some very interesting things to share about the state of Android in India.

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  • April 30, 2013
  • at 8:38 pm
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Line Targets Kids With Toy Smartphone (PICS)

Together with Takaratomy, the popular mobile chat application is targeting kids with its upcoming Line toy smartphone.

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  • April 29, 2013
  • at 7:51 pm
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Report: Another China Mobile Executive Being Investigated for Corruption

Report: Another China Mobile Executive Being Investigated for Corruption

In the latest in a series of high-level executives at China Mobile being detained by authorities investigating an apparent corruption case, ...

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  • April 27, 2013
  • at 12:05 am
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Foxconn Has No Plans To Make Apple Products in New Indonesia Factory

Foxconn has no plan to export phones from Indonesia and will not make Apple products there.

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  • April 26, 2013
  • at 7:55 pm
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North Korea Sees Huge Growth in 3G Users, Now at 2 Million Subscribers

North Korea’s sole 3G mobile telco, KoryoLink, has seen amazing growth in user numbers recently. The NorthKoreaTech blog has spotted t...

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  • April 26, 2013
  • at 1:00 pm
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China Nears 200 Million Broadband Subscribers (But the Mobile Web is Still Way Bigger)

China Nears 200 Million Broadband Subscribers (But the Mobile Web is Still Way Bigger)

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released the latest official numbers for broadband penetration in t...

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  • April 26, 2013
  • at 9:30 am
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India’s Zapak Records 100 Million Game Downloads on Nokia Store

India-based mobile gaming developer and publisher Zapak Mobile Games made an announcement a couple of days ago that it has now passed the 10...

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  • April 25, 2013
  • at 1:45 pm
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China Won’t Force WeChat to Subsidize Telecoms, Says MIIT Spokesman

The battle between Tencent’s WeChat and major Chinese telecoms has been raging all spring, but it looked to be pretty close to over wh...

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  • April 24, 2013
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Huawei Founder Promises No Nepotism and No IPO

Huawei has been having a strange couple of weeks. Last week, there were the reports that Huawei was abandoning the US market, which proved t...

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  • April 30, 2013
  • at 9:00 am
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Yongche: Car Rental Startup Gets Massive Funding Round for New Taxi Finding App

Beijing-based car rental startup Yongche has been diversifying recently, launching a taxi finding app in the form of “DaChe Xiaomi”. Inv...

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  • April 29, 2013
  • at 11:30 am
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Xiaomi Mi2S launch

Now the Newest Xiaomi Phone is Available Worldwide

One Chinese e-commerce site that recently branched out into global sales has added what could be its hottest item yet – the newest Xia...

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  • April 26, 2013
  • at 11:22 pm
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MoneyTree Japan

MoneyTree Launches as a Mint for Japan, Connects With 30 Japanese Banks

MoneyTree, a Tokyo-based startup, has just launched its iOS finance app today. The service is basically a Mint.com for Japan, though the big...

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  • April 26, 2013
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Baidu Releases Q1 Financials, Reaches 100 Million Daily Mobile Search Users

China’s top search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), posted its Q1 2013 earnings after the close of Thursday’s trading in the US. A major mil...

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  • April 26, 2013
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Huawei: We’re Not Giving Up US Market

So it turns out Huawei may not be as Cartman-esque as we originally suggested. After the Financial Times reported earlier in the week that H...

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  • April 25, 2013
  • at 11:52 pm
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Translate Weibo

With One New App, Every Sina Weibo Post Can Be Easily Translated into English

A couple of months ago we previewed the creation of a new kind of third-party app for Sina Weibo – one that would translate the mostly...

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  • April 24, 2013
  • at 3:00 pm
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Huawei to US Market: Screw You Guys, We’re Going Home! [UPDATED]

UPDATE: Huawei says the Financial Times misunderstood what was said and actually it isn’t abandoning the US market. So much for the Am...

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  • April 24, 2013
  • at 7:25 am
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