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APPLE TANKING? China jobs freeze as Apple cuts orders
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, has imposed a recruitment freeze across most of its factories in China as it slows production of Apple’s iPhone 5.The suspension in hiring by China’s largest priva...
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INTEREST IN BLACKBERRY 10 SURGES WHILE IPHONE LOYALTY SLIPS
The latest YouGov report on smartphone brand perception and purchase intent is out, and this one is a keeper. According to the data, the proportion of BlackBerry owners planning to purchase a new BlackBerry (BBRY) within six mo...
Technology
BlackBerry Z10 Highlighted In New ‘Keep Moving’ Commercial
Hot on the trails of their Super Bowl ad which focused on what exactly the BlackBerry Z10 can’t do, BlackBerry released a brand-new commercial further highlighting both the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry 10. The commercial, call...
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Shanghai Dreaming to Become the City with Fastest Internet Speed in the World
China biggest fixed-line operator China Telecom said Shanghai currently has the fastest Internet speed in Chinese mainland and it is expected to become the fastest broadband speeds in Asia by 2015. China Telecom’s plans to doub...
Business
Obama must face the rise of the robots
Technology will leave a large chunk of the US labour force in the lurch. Early in his first term Barack Obama joked that he would “keep an eye on the robots in case they try anything”. He should have known resistance is futile....
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BlackBerry fans in the UK are lining up in droves for the BlackBerry Z10
BlackBerry fans in the UK are the first to be able to purchase a BlackBerry Z10, and they turned out in droves today. As you can see in the image above from @FrancePalopoli on Twitter, there were plenty of fans ready to wait in...
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BlackBerry’s Secret Weapon: Women
The two most significant words that BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins uttered during the company’s big launch event this week may not have been “BlackBerry 10,” but rather “working moms.” …Heins ...
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CARRIERS, RIVALS DROOLING AT SIGNS OF APPLE WEAKNESS: ‘THE ILLOGICAL LOVE AFFAIR IS OVER’
You can’t make it to the top without picking up some enemies on the way, and Apple (AAPL) has picked up plenty of them as it rose from near death in the late ’90s to become the most valuable tech company in the world. And now t...
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BlackBerry 10 Launch Event Video
Missed the launch event and keynote address? Click the image above or the link below (desktop only) to check out this hour-long video featuring all of today’s major announcements. via BlackBerry 10 Launch Event Video.
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BlackBerry Q10 Photo Gallery
The BlackBerry Q10 is the first full QWERTY BlackBerry 10 device from BlackBerry. It was announced earlier today and while we don’t know when or where it will be available just yet, we still got a chance to play with and ...
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BlackBerry listened. The “Splat” has officially been rebranded to the “Spark”
The video above hails from an ad campaign in India. BlackBerry listened. The “Splat” has officially been rebranded to the “Spark” Read more… Posted by CFO Worldwide Team exclusively by BlackBerry. ...
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RIM prepping Super Bowl ad to introduce BlackBerry 10 to the world Mobile
Get yo’ popcorn ready. When your company is announcing the latest and greatest mobile OS, why not seize the opportunity to scrape up a few million bucks to make sure the entire world gets a proper introduction? Research i...
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Lenovo looking towards BlackBerry to help their mobile business?
But a strategic partnership? That makes way more sense. What form could this take? It could be an exclusive licensing of BlackBerry 10. It could be an outright sale of the hardware business. It could be a modified licensing and...
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‘BlackBerry’ Research In Motion Stock Rises On Lenovo’s Reported Interest
Shares of Research In Motion (RIMM) rebounded Thursday on a report that China-based Lenovo was eyeing the maker of BlackBerry phones. Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming, in an interview with Bloomberg, said the company was considering a ...
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APPLE TANKS…
Apple on Track for Worst Day Since ’08 TARP Rejection. Shares of former tech darling Apple (AAPL) tumbled 11% on Thursday in their largest selloff since the 2008 financial crisis as Wall Street worries the iPhone maker’s ...
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APPLE’S STOCK PLUNGES…
UPDATE 2-Apple shares slide 12 percent after weak results via AAPL: 461.37 -52.635 (-10.24%) – Apple Inc – CNBC.COM.
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Apple May Face First Profit Drop in Decade as IPhone Slows
Eighteen months after taking over from Steve Jobs, Cook is facing rising production costs, competition from Samsung Electronics Co. and slowing growth in smartphones, threatening profits for the world’s most valuable company. v...
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Top Foreign Developer Outsourced his Job to China to Goof Off at Work
A security audit of a US critical infrastructure company revealed that its star developer had outsourced his own job to a Chinese subcontractor and was spending all his work time playing around on the internet. The so-called cl...
