Q’comm Profits Dive Amid Patent Disputes

Net income falls 57 percent in fiscal year  You know when you hear as many as five executives on a quarterly conference call, times are challenging. So it was when Qualcomm Inc. reported results for the end of its fiscal 2017. Quarterly and annual revenues of $5.9 billion and $22.3 billion were both down 5 percent compared to 2016 results, using GAAP figures. Given...

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IPHONE X

after months of hype, endless speculation, and a wave of last-minute rumors about production delays, the iPhone X is finally here. Apple says it’s a complete reimagining of what the iPhone should be, 10 years after the original revolutionized the world. That means some fundamental aspects of the iPhone are totally different here — most notably, the home button and fingerprint...

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iPhone 7 Coming in 2016

Apple won't release its next-generation iPhone until the fall of 2016, so there are still months of development ahead. For the current time, Apple's flagship iPhones are the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus, released to the public in September of 2015. Though it will be several months before the new iPhone 7 launches, rumors about the device started trickling out in January...

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SAMSUNG GALAXY C7 AND C5 RUMORS

Samsung’s never one to settle on selling a couple of phones, when it could pile dozens of them up on store shelves. The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge have reportedly been successful, and rumors are gathering the latest flagships may be joined by revamped mid-range devices, which replace the S with a C in the model names. Here’s what we think we know about Samsung’s C-series smartphones...

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Android N update: release date, news and features

Update: Android N Developer Preview 3 is now out, and the launch date could be as soon as this summer. Here's everything we know about the forthcoming Android N update, including all the new information from Google IO 2016. Android N is Google's next phone and tablet operating system update that's been so thoroughly refined, the company is officially more than halfway through...

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Computex 2016 highlights: Home robot, razor-thin MacBook clone, and a gorgeous 3D printer

Some slick designs and novel computers headlined Computex 2016 in Taipei, Taiwan this week. A longstanding computer hardware conference that’s been around since 1981, Computex always manages to showcase cutting-edge stuff. Probably the biggest attention-getter was a “home robot” from Asus. Personal robot: Though Asus is keeping a lot of the details under wraps, the...

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Facebook 'listening' claim denied by professor

Prof Kelli Burns has denied saying she believes Facebook is listening to people's conversations via the microphones on their smartphones. In a news story that went viral this week it was reported that she had said key words around her phone which then appeared on Facebook. Prof Burns says there was a practical explanation for what had happened. Facebook has previously...

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CES postscript: The touch laptop, like it or not

The laptop was reinvented at CES. Or maybe I should say there was a vigorous attempt to reinvent the laptop. Because we won't know how successful touch has been until next year this time. Intel's CES booth -- still a large presence in the CES Central Hall -- had one basic unmistakable message: touch has arrived. Windows 8 convertibles, detachables, touch-screen laptops,...

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Facebook Distributes $200,000 to East Palo Alto and Menlo Park Nonprofits, Mercury News

Facebook kicked off the new year by showering 42 nonprofits in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto with a total of $200,000 in grants, according to company officials. The financial largess is part of a deal the social media company struck with the city of Menlo Park last year in exchange for permission to almost double the number of employees on its main campus at the intersection of Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road. Although Facebook originally promised to create a $500,000 foundation, Susan Gonzales, the company's head of community engagement,...

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T-Mobile could get HTC One X+ this September

T-Mobile customers may lack 4G LTE, but if the latest rumors are right, it'll be the first U.S. carrier to offer its customers a quad-core smartphone. Related storiesHTC One X reviewHTC One S reviewHTC One V reviewThe HTC One X+, suggests TMoNews, will carry Nvidia's Tegra 3 quad-core processor, the same chipset used in international versions of the HTC One.The U.S. versions...

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Researcher uses NFC to attack Android, Nokia smartphones

LAS VEGAS -- Security specialist Charlie Miller demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference today a way to hijack an Android smartphone via the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology that's turned on by default on the device, and said he's found problems with NFC implementations on Nokia as well. NFC tags have built-in antennas and are found in stickers and smart...

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Hacking, the card game, debuts at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS -- There's much more to hacking than just the Hollywood portrayal of a speed typing contest, say the computer security professionals who've developed a new hacking-themed card game called Control-Alt-Hack at Black Hat 2012. Control-Alt-Hack is based on Steve Jackson Games' Ninja Burger, but from the characters to the mission cards to entropy cards, the demystification...

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Sources: HTC did not meet financial obligations to Beats

HTC's abrupt change in course on Beats Electronics is more about HTC's internal troubles than anything involving the audio company, sources close to the negotiations told CNET. Last August, Beats, a maker of popular headphones that was co-founded by rapper Dr. Dre and music impresario Jimmy Iovine, sold 50.1 percent of the company to the Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones...

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App Store hacker says the 'game is over'

The creator of an exploit that let users purchase digital goods inside of iOS apps without actually paying for them said today that Apple's fix puts the hack out of business. "Currently we have no way to bypass [the] updated APIs," creator Alexei Borodin wrote in a post on his development blog. "It's a good news for everyone, we have updated security in iOS, developers have...

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Google+ trends: 'The Dark Knight Rises' reviews, Nexus 7

Google+ers in the US are returning home from midnight showings of The Dark Knight Rises and posting their micro-reviews of the film on the social networking site.They say, “Just saw The Dark Knight Rises. Truly an awesome film...though not as awesome as The Dark Knight. Overall, I'd give it a 9 out of 10. Still freakin' amazing! I already want to see it again,” “Just saw...

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No room for error in Facebook's debut quarter

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc faces immense pressure to beat Wall Street's financial targets when its delivers its inaugural quarterly earnings report next week, hoping to wash away the bad taste left with investors from a soured IPO. The No. 1 social networking company's second-quarter report on July 26 will be scrutinized by investors looking for clues on the...

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