HTC posts healthy profit on soaring sales

From CNET News.com: Handset maker HTC tallied an exceptionally strong first quarter, and it expects that success to continue.

During the first quarter of 2011, HTC generated a profit of 14.83 billion Taiwan dollars (US$518 million) on revenue of 104.16 billion Taiwan dollars. The...

RIM Shares Take a Dive on Weak Profit Outlook

From DailyTech: The bad news keeps piling on for BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion, and it's starting to have an effect on shareholders.

Last month, the Canadian company predicted a poor showing for its first quarter of the year. It predicted smartphone sales to fall, while...

Microsoft Sees a Lot of Enthusiasm with Nokia Partnership

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. said in its quarterly conference call that that its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system (OS) was gaining acceptance despite of reports by independent companies. Besides, the software giant pinned a lot of hopes onto the mobile platform in general...

Verizon finds cause of LTE outage

From InfoWorld: Verizon Wireless has determined the cause of an outage that crippled its LTE mobile data network starting late Tuesday and it is working to solve the problem, but the carrier has not estimated when the system will be restored.

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Sprint takes subscriber hit; still improves

From CNET News.com: Sprint Nextel continued to lose wireless subscribers in the first quarter of 2011 as it faced stiff competition from Verizon Wireless, which began selling the Apple iPhone in February. But the company improved its churn rate and narrowed its losses.
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Verizon adds $50 unlimited prepaid plan

From CNET News.com: Verizon Wireless planted a bigger flag in prepaid this week with the announcement of its new "Verizon Unleashed" plans. Though only available in Southern California and most of Florida for the time being, the plans offers unlimited services for $50 per month...

Nokia Restructuring Begins, 4,000 Employees to be Fired

From DailyTech: Can't say we didn't see it coming. You could point to former Microsoft Executive Stephen Elop's appointment as Nokia's new CEO in September as the beginning of a major transition for the Finnish mobile manufacturer, but things had been in disarray for the struggling...

AMD May Start Using ARM Architecture in Its Designs - ARM

From X-bit Labs: ARM Holdings, a leading designer of low-power microprocessor technologies, said that it would try to persuade AMD to abandon its x86 everywhere strategy and adopt ARM architecture for ultra low-power designs for smartphones, tablets and other electronics of the kind...

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